Strachey's eccentric look at Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, and Dr. Arnold breathed new life into the art of biography when it originally appeared.
Strachey's eccentric look at Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, and Dr. Arnold breathed new life into the art of biography when it originally appeared.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GENERAL GORDON'S POSITION AT KARTOUM. Only a very few words on my part are necessary in laying these Journals before the public. On New Year's Day, 1884, General ...
The focus of this book is the leadership of Charles George Gordon, the governor-general of the Sudan, during the Turkiyya period (1821-85). The book analyzes his administration and the political, economic and social developments under his leadership against a background of political unrest in Egypt and the weakening of Khedive Ismail's position in ...
Lytton Strachey's classic work Eminent Victorians was an assault on the Victorian Age and its values. In chosing four key figures, Cardinal Manning, Dr Arnold of Rugby, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, Strachey conducted a masterly hatchett job on four key representatives of their age. His book was an instant bastseller and has been in ...
Biographies of some of the greatest adventurers of the British empire: Cecil John Rhodes, Richard Francis Burton, John Nicholson, Henry Montgomery Lawrence, William Walker, and Charles George Gordon.
The Life Of Gordon, Major-General, R.E.C.B.; Turkish Field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, And Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order .... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, ...
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