"[Dr] Verling was based on St Helena during Napoleon's imprisonment and at one point he was even appointed as Napoleon's official physician. Throughout his stay, this young Irish doctor kept a vivid and detailed diary of his experiences, which is published here for the first tim…
Many books have been written about St Helena and its most famous resident, the exiled Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The episode has been so intensively researched that it is rare for a fresh, unpublished account to come to light. Yet Dr James Verling's St Helena journal is just su…
"[Dr] Verling was based on St Helena during Napoleon's imprisonment and at one point he was even appointed as Napoleon's official physician. Throughout his stay, this young Irish doctor kept a vivid and detailed diary of his experiences, which is published here for the first tim…
In her powerful, poignant book-one of the best non-fiction works from India in recent years- Anubha Bhonsle examines the tangled and tragic history of Manipur, and of much of India's North East. Through the story of Irom Sharmila-on a protest fast since 2000-and many others who …
"Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean exlores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Divided into four parts and offering a variety of both national and cultural vantage points, Piracy and Captivit…
"Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean exlores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Divided into four parts and offering a variety of both national and cultural vantage points, Piracy and Captivit…
"Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean exlores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Divided into four parts and offering a variety of both national and cultural vantage points, Piracy and Captivit…
Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture…
"Best known today as the author of Don Quixote - one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his theatrical ca…
"Best known today as the author of Don Quixote--one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition--Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his theatrical care…
