books by Nonsuch Publishing

books by Nonsuch Publishing

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Domestic Manners of the Americans (Nonsuch Classics)

Fanny Trollope, John by Fanny Trollope

Nonsuch Publishing, 2007

Fox-hunting highjinks
Robert Smith Surtees devoted his life basically to two things: fox hunting and novel writing, actually combining both into a single pursuit. He wrote a number of delightful novels centering around the fox-hunting society in and about Durham, England; this was his last ...

The Spy (Nonsuch Classics)

James Fenimore Cooper

Nonsuch Publishing, 2005

Major John André was recently hung for spying
The is here adventure enough and romance for all. A visit home to see the family turns bad for a British Captain of Infantry. A peddler ans a gentleman stranger are what the plot turns on. Here are "Cowboys" as mounted British soldiers before the modern cowboy ...

Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan: Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China ...

Nonsuch Publishing, 2005

On March 31, 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa on behalf of the United States? government. This moment signalled the end of the ruling Shogunate?s policy of isolationism, which had been in place since the early 16th century. Although foreign nations?the Portuguese, the British, and Spanish?had once traded there, the ...

Wanderings in Patagonia: Or Life Among the Ostrich Hunters (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers)

Julius Beerbohm

Nonsuch Publishing, 2005

"An Unfinished Portion of the Globe"
Father of the famous essayist, critic, and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, Beerbohm senior had spent some time in Patagonia. There, he wrote this book and illustrated Lady Florence Dixie's RIDING ACROSS PATAGONIA, an equestrian classic that is still in print. Fortunately, ...

Phoebe, Junior (Nonsuch Classics)
Margaret Oliphant

Nonsuch Publishing, 2006

Phoebe, Junior , the last of the tales that made up the Chronicles of Carlingford, brought to a close one of British literature?s best-loved series. Phoebe, Junior, however, has long been regarded as a wonderful tale in its own right, a hidden treasure in what can often become a tired parade of the usual suspects. This wonderful volume, by ...

My Secret Life: The Sex Diaries of a Victorian Gentleman: Early Memories, Vol I
Walter

Nonsuch Publishing, 2007

Although a fictional biography, Early Memories provides an insight into the grim world of Victorian prostitution. Colored by fantasy and sexual debauchery, this graphic account has long been hailed as a valuable insight into the reality of those times. My Secret Life was first printed in a private edition of 11 volumes, beginning around 1888. ...

Among the Ibos of Nigeria (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers)
G.T. Basden

Nonsuch Publishing, 2006

Among the Ibos of Nigeria is the work of the British missionary George Basden. He lived with the Ibos for many years, recording the complexities of their culture at all stages in life, from childhood to the intricate rituals surrounding death, for his white European audience. He confesses in his introduction that it is a "practical impossibility ...

Before Sunday: The Life Stories of the Bloody Sunday Victims

Jennifer Faus

Nonsuch Publishing, 2008

Finally, Somebody Has Helped To Tell The Victims' Stories
Jennifer Faus has done something which, up to this time very few people, if any, have attempted to do: to tell the stories of the victims of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland. The stories of these people are both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same ...

The Comedy of Human Life Volume VII (Nonsuch Classics)
Honore de Balzac

Nonsuch Publishing, 2005

The Comedy of Human Life (La Comédie Humaine) is the collective title given to a series of linked stories by Balzac, totalling about 100 in all, and loosely divided into groups, such as provincial, Parisian, political, military, and country. Conceived in 1834, his idea was to produce a work with philosophical underpinnings which would survey all ...

Consett (Pocket Images)
Derwentdale Local History Society

Nonsuch Publishing, 2005

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

The Ghost (Nonsuch Classics)
Arnold Bennett

Nonsuch Publishing, 2008

First published in 1907, The Ghost was the first of many "fantasias on modern times" written by Arnold Bennett. These illustrated his ability to produce not only realistic novels, perfected in his portrayals of provincial English life set in the Staffordshire scenery of his childhood, but also more sensational stories, written after his move to ...

The Voyage of the Discovery: Volume One
Captain Robert F. Scott

Nonsuch Publishing, 2006

The Voyage of the Discovery is Robert Falcon Scott?s own narrative of his first expedition to the Antarctic. Providing a first-hand account of the dangers he and his crew faced and the obstacles that they had to overcome, it is an enthralling description of the historic first voyage of "Scott of the Antarctic" to the south polar regions.

Memoirs of an Aide-de-Camp of Napoleon 1800-1812

General Count Philip de Segur

Nonsuch Publishing, 2005

The View of Someone Who was There
The life of Philippe de Segur was most amazing. First attracted to the cavalry during a parade in 1800, he joined the French Army. He was to serve (somewhat intermittantly) for the next forty-eight years. He served throughout the years of Napoleon. Mustered out after ...

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (Nonsuch Classics)

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

Nonsuch Publishing, 2006

Warning: Drop Your Preconceptions
As another reviewer said, you have to be patient to enjoy this, I think. Fairly long passages can go by seemingly without anything significant happening, but Le Fanu's writing style is very nice and definitely vintage so if you like the words you probably won't mind. ...