'The soldier, mystic and explorer Francis Younghusband, who fulfilled the romantic dreams of the late British Empire, was once as legendary a figure as Lawrence of Arabia. He lives again most vividly and entertainingly in this remarkable book. ' Michael HolroydIn this travelling biography, Patrick French tells the story of the man who held the ...
Writing with unique access to his memories and his private papers, and with great love for his formidable body of work, Patrick French brings us unique and often surprising insights into the most enigmatic and compelling literary figure of the last fifty years.Beginning in rich and evocative detail in Trinidad, where V. S. Naipaul was born into an ...
A British journalist analyzes the situation in Tibet after extensive travel there, concluding that the Chinese have wreaked indefensible havoc there which the U.N. has done little to alleviate. Patrick French centers his narrative on his own experiences and on the suicide of a friend who killed himself in protest.
Patrick ffrench has given us an imaginative theoretical reading of an unsettling masterpiece by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-century French literature. The obscene, erotic, and disturbing text Histoire de l'oeil (1928) is a traumatic event in the history of modernity, and in the prehistory of ...
Franics Younghusband was the first chairman of the Mount Everest Committee of the Royal Geographical Society. This is his account of the three separate expeditions to Mount Everest in 1921, 1922 and 1924 - the expedition in which Mallory and Irving lost their lives.
This comprehensive introduction to sexually transmitted diseases gives concise, practical information on a wide range of diseases. The text of this fifth edition is substantially rewritten, updated and illustrated with new photographs, drawings and charts. It gives the latest guidance on presenting symptoms, diagnosis, management, and ...
Author of the obscene narrative "Story of the Eye" and of works of heretical philosophy such as "Inner Experience", Georges Bataille (1897-1962) is one of the most powerful and secretly influential French thinkers of the last century. His work is driven by a compulsion to communicate an experience which exceeds the limits of communicative exchange ...
This work is a study of what is regarded as one of the most important elements in post-war French intellectual and cultural life. The journal "Tel Quel" was the focus of much of the intense theoretical activity of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s and played a vital role in the development of the key thinkers of the time: Roland Barthes, Michel ...
'A remarkable achievement' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph 'Brilliant!There can be no doubt that Patrick French is the most impressive Western historian of modern India currently at work' Frank McLynn, Glasgow Herald At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire cracked into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in ...
An assessment of micromachined devices and components. It contains discussion of bonding and packaging, including wafer bonding with an adhesive coating, and examination of chemical and gas sensors, including acoustic-wave chemical microsensors in GaAs.
The story of the miserly Scrooge, his haunting by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, and his ultimate redemption. This newly abridged version makes it accessible to younger readers, with colour pictures by Mother Goose Award winner Patrick Benson.
This quiz book offers the reader clues to the answers to each question. The questions have been devised to appeal to the "cryptic" problem solver, and because the sections and questions themselves are witty and clever, reading the book is an informative experience. The emphasis is on recent film history, of the last 40 years, with special sections ...
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