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Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives | Reading Level: near fine
The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated than Alexander ...Show more
Biographic Degas by Katie Greenwood
$10.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Great Lives in Graphic Form | Reading Level: very good
The Biographic senes presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Edgar ...Show more
Caesar by Michael Grant
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Great Lives | Reading Level: very good
Offenbach by Peter Gammond
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S. | Reading Level: very good
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
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