The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire / Deborah Baker.
The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire / Deborah Baker.
The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire / Deborah Baker.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
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G 2018/5420
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxiv, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
part I. To live as on a mountain: The lakes ; The steamship and the spinning wheel ; Bengali Baboo ; The thrust fault ; Triangles ; The school of art -- part II. The impersonal eye: Perfect monsters ; Goddess Mother of the world ; I spy ; The Moscow agent ; In the ice mountains ; Taking a hat off a...
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Publisher
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
Minnesota
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers--W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender--achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest's summit to an Englishman, a quest that had becom...
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The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire / Deborah Baker.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350) and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/5420
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74VKV8MJeA2Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8MJeA2Z
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ISBN
9781555978044 (hardcover)
1555978045 (hardcover)
DDC
954.035
MMS ID
991024187599102626
