6 Ergebnisse.

When an unexpected storm forced the Liverpool merchant, John Woodhouse, into the Sicilian port of Marsala in 1770, he had no idea that this chance event would end up making him a fortune. He fortuitously discovered that the local wine when fortified with brandy, would make an excellent competitor to madeira, then one of the world's most popular wines. Together with his son, Woodhouse established a business in Marsala and began exporting his wi...

Ever since the first Indian Jones film hit the silver screen in 1984, there has been speculation as to whether the fictional character was inspired by real-life. Indiana MacCreagh is the stand-out candidate. An intrepid explorer, adventurer and big-game hunter, he was also a prolific author whose writings entertained millions around the world.MacCreagh spoke several languages and was an entomologist, anthropologist, pilot, musician and photogr...

This is the story of the author's early childhood, mostly set in the provincial Midlands town of Leamington Spa. The book covers the first twenty formative years of the author's life from 1944 to 1964. As Britain emerged from the trauma of World War II, the late 1940s and early 1950s were a period of austerity and rationing. Although living standards for many were gradually rising, life for the poor or disadvantaged could be very hard. With a ...

Keine Beschreibung.

In 1870, having worked his way up from humble beginnings in South Wales, John Hughes although only semi-literate, was a successful inventor, wealthy industrialist and family man living in London. At the age of 55 he decided to leave everything behind and move to the desolate Ukrainian Steppe, then part of Tsarist Russia, to set up a modern iron and steel works. Having negotiateda contract with the Russian government and raised the capital in E...

Russia experienced two traumatic revolutions during the 20th century, the first in 1917 bringing the Bolsheviks to power and ultimately ushering in the era of the Soviet communist state. The second in late 1991 saw the rapid dismantling of the Soviet empire, the demise of the communists as the dominating force in Russian and eastern European politics and the installation of Boris Yeltsin as the first elected president of a reborn Russia.Twenty...