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Emigrants Why the English Sailed to the New World

Evans, James
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781780221038
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Vekt
276 gr
Høyde
200 mm
Bredde
137 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Evans, James

Biographical note

James Evans completed a doctorate at Oriel College, Oxford, following a first-class degree and a Masters in Historical Research. He is a writer and producer of historical documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, and the author of Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Emigrants Why the English Sailed to the New World

Evans, James
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Evans, James
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they go?Emigrants casts vivid new light on the population shift which underpins the rise of modern America. Using contemporary sources including diaries, court hearings and letters, James Evans brings us the extraordinary personal stories of the men and women who made the journey of a lifetime.
Les mer
An absorbing, unconventional approach to the mass migration from England to the Americas in the seventeenth century.
James Evans has written a marvellously engaging and comprehensive account of this ambitious undertaking and the men and women who accomplished it, often with the odds stacked against them. Here he tells the exciting, sometimes heartbreaking stories of the pioneers and explains what kind of world they dreamt of creating. It was one in which individual liberty and freedom was cherished: both became part of the modern American mindset
Les mer
A marvellously engaging and comprehensive account of this ambitious undertaking and the men and women who accomplished it, often with the odds stacked against them. Here he tells the exciting, sometimes heartbreaking stories of the pioneers and explains what kind of world they dreamt of creating - The TimesGripping and enjoyable ... In a lucid, well-written and solidly researched analysis, Evans teases out the mixed and complicated reasons that so many people were compelled to make the risky sea voyage to a perilous wilderness - Church Times
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'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they go?Emigrants casts vivid new light on the population shift which underpins the rise of modern America. Using contemporary sources including diaries, court hearings and letters, James Evans brings us the extraordinary personal stories of the men and women who made the journey of a lifetime.
Les mer
An absorbing, unconventional approach to the mass migration from England to the Americas in the seventeenth century.
James Evans has written a marvellously engaging and comprehensive account of this ambitious undertaking and the men and women who accomplished it, often with the odds stacked against them. Here he tells the exciting, sometimes heartbreaking stories of the pioneers and explains what kind of world they dreamt of creating. It was one in which individual liberty and freedom was cherished: both became part of the modern American mindset
Les mer
A marvellously engaging and comprehensive account of this ambitious undertaking and the men and women who accomplished it, often with the odds stacked against them. Here he tells the exciting, sometimes heartbreaking stories of the pioneers and explains what kind of world they dreamt of creating - The TimesGripping and enjoyable ... In a lucid, well-written and solidly researched analysis, Evans teases out the mixed and complicated reasons that so many people were compelled to make the risky sea voyage to a perilous wilderness - Church Times
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781780221038
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Vekt
276 gr
Høyde
200 mm
Bredde
137 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Evans, James

Biographical note

James Evans completed a doctorate at Oriel College, Oxford, following a first-class degree and a Masters in Historical Research. He is a writer and producer of historical documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, and the author of Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

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