Tower - Couverture souple

Jones

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250038405 ISBN 13 : 9781250038401

Editeur : Griffin, 2013

Synopsis

A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it.

Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction in the UK: The Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in the island's story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place which has stood at the epicenter of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years.

Now historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national--and international--events. In a gripping account drawn from primary sources and lavishly illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning photographs, he captures the Tower in its many changing moods and its many diverse functions.

Here, for the first time, is a thematic portrayal of the Tower of london not just as an ancient structure, but as a living symbol of the nation of Great Britain.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nigel Jones is an author, a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, and has been a TV and radio broadcaster.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250038405
• ISBN 13: 9781250038401
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 478
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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