5 livres semblables à Hommage à la Catalogne
Le Romany Rye
The journey of a learned young man living with Romanies.
Thèmes communs : English Authors, Journeys, Travel, Biography & Memoir
Le Pays de Galles sauvage
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862.
Thèmes communs : English Authors, Journeys, Travel, Biography & Memoir
La Richesse des nations
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the point of departure for all subsequent economic thought. Smith's theories of capital accumulation, growth, and secular change, among others, continue to be influential in modern economics. This reprint of…
Thèmes communs : Communism, Politics and government, History
Les Sept Piliers de la Sagesse
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918. It was completed in February 1922, but first published in December 1926, originally published for the US market in 1927 as Revolt in the…
Thèmes communs : British Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History
Les Rough Riders
"The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas…
Thèmes communs : Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History