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Giles Milton
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born
in Buckinghamshire, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1966
gender
male
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
— published 1999 — 18 editions |
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
— published 2002 — 15 editions |
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
— published 2000 — 11 editions |
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White Gold
— published 2004 — 12 editions |
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Edward Trencom's Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
— published 2007 — 15 editions |
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Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922
— published 2008 — 8 editions |
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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler
— published 1996 — 6 editions |
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Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War
— published 2011 — 7 editions |
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Call Me Gorgeous!
by Giles Milton, Alexandra Milton — published 2009 — 2 editions |
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Good Luck Baby Owls
by Giles Milton, Alexandra Milton — published 2012 — 2 editions |
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“In the Banda Islands, ten pounds of nutmeg cost less than one English penny. In London, that same spice sold for more than £2.10s. – a mark-up of a staggering 60,000 per cent. A small sackful was enough to set a man up for life, buying him a gabled dwelling in Holborn and a servant to attend to his needs”
― Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
― Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
“merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the ships. Instead, all available space was converted into living space for the large number of men on board, a necessary feature of long voyages into the unknown. Many would die on the outward trip and for those that survived there was a cornucopia of tropical diseases awaiting them on their arrival in the East”
― Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
― Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company
GRR 3.78
PB £7.09 Kindle £6.99
416 pages
by Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company
GRR 3.78
PB £7.09 Kindle £6.99
416 pages
Les enfants de la liberté
by Marc Levy
A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist Early in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe.
GRR 3.75
PB £8.99 Kindle £5.99
384 pages
by Marc Levy
A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist Early in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe.
GRR 3.75
PB £8.99 Kindle £5.99
384 pages
The Island
by Victoria Hislop
The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939,
GRR 3.88
PB £5.36 Kindle £4.99
480 pages
by Victoria Hislop
The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939,
GRR 3.88
PB £5.36 Kindle £4.99
480 pages
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