The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (1st edition hardback in fair dust jacket) flat signed by the author

Mortimer, Ian

ISBN 10: 1847921140 / ISBN 13: 9781847921147

Edité par The Bodley Head Ltd, 2012

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Published by The Bodley Head Ltd in 2012, here is the first hardback printing of Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England flat signed by Ian in black ink to the full title page. Black cloth binding, silver spine lettering, 420 pages plus colour illustrations the book is in good condition with some light marking to the cloth covered boards and some bumping to the edges and corners plus, the name of a previous owner inked to the reverse of the half title page. The dust jacket is fair with chipping, creasing rubbing and some smallish tears to the corners. The book is extremely heavy and therefore additional postage MUST be applied to areas OUTSIDE the UK only, as follows: Europe/ Rest of the World £5. UK postage is as quoted.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (1st edition hardback in fair dust jacket) flat signed by the author
• Éditeur: The Bodley Head Ltd
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1847921140
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781847921147
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Fair
• Poids: 1,2 kilogramme
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time?

In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around the reader.

He shows a society making great discoveries and winning military victories and yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language and some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world.

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly books and articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2015. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.