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Books Cumbria : People : Biography

Biography

Cumbrian Biography and Autobiography <<prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | next>>
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On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA

Melvyn Bragg
£7.99

A fascinating account of the lives and discoveries of 12 great scientific figures.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 1998
Format : Paperback.

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On Juniper Mountain

Angela Locke
£11.99

Angela Locke travelled to Nepal in the early 90's to research a new book, and found herself on a journey of discovery which would change her life.

Published by : John Hunt publishing
Published date : April 2010
Format : 216mm x 140mm paperback

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One Hit Wonder: The Jimmy Glass Story

Jimmy Glass and Roger Lytollis
£12.99

It was Jimmy's 95th minute goal in the last game of the 1998/99 season that kept Carlisle United in the Football League. Even more remarkably, Jimmy is a goalkeeper. His rollercoaster career, from Premier League to Sunday league, is a world away from the standard football biography.

Published by : Tempus
Published date : 2004
Format : Large paperback.

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One Woman's Walk

Jane Moreland
£9.99

At the age of 39 Jane Moreland turned her back on a successful career to fulfil her dream of walking alone in the great mountain ranges of the world. Her experiences led her up mountains, through jungles, over water, into danger, and gave her laughter,

Published by : A. Jane Moreland
Published date : 2003
Format : Large paperback.

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Outside Broadcaster - An Autobiography

Eric Robson
£12.99

Eric Robson is probably best known as the chairman of one of the longest running broadcast programmes in the world - Gardeners' Question Time on Radio 4.

Published by : Frances Lincoln
Published date : May 2007
Format : 198mm x 128mm hardback

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Over Hill and Dale

Gervase Phinn
£6.99

A delightfully warm and humorous account of Gervase Phinns experiences in his second year as a school inspector in North Yorkshire.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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Precious Lives

Margaret Forster
£10.00

Reduced from £17.99,an intimate, personal and brutally honest memoir of the lives and deaths of two people; the author's sister-in-law, who fought bravely against terminal cancer, and the author's father, who lived to his mid-nineties.

Published by : Chatto & Windus
Published date : 1998
Format : Hardback.

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Precious Lives

Margaret Forster
£7.99

A follow-on to Hidden Lives. (a family memoir of three generations of women).

Published by : Vintage
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Proud Northern Lady

Martin Holmes
£8.99

Anne Clifford died in 1676, full of years and honours, the great wise woman of Bishop Rainbows funeral oration, fitter for a history than a sermon. The history had to wait 300 years, for Martin Holmes to write this book, but she was not forgotten

Published by : Phillimore
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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Quest For Adventure

Chris Bonington
£16.99

Remarkable feats of exploration and adventure, 1950 - 2000. A personal and remarkable celebration of exploration and adventure by a man who has done much to keep its spirit alive today.

Published by : Cassell & Co.
Published date : 2000
Format : Large paperback.

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Read's Point of View

Mary E. Burkett; David Sloss
£19.95

A biography of Mathias Read (1669-1747), once called the father of Cumbrian painting, and the only notable pre-picturesque painter of the Lake District.

Published by : Skiddaw Press
Published date : 1995
Format : Large hardback.

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Richard Brathwait - The First Lakeland Poet

John Bowes
£12.95

Richard Brathwait's 19th century biographer described him as 'a Christian and Upright Man'who was well proportioned, and one of the handsomest men of his day; remarkable for ready wit and humour; charitable to the poor in the extreme, so much as to have involved himself in difficulties by it'.

Published by : Hugill Publications
Published date : October 2007
Format : 140mm x 205mm paperback

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Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters

W. A. Speck
£25.00

In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his fellow 'Lake Poets', Coleridge and Wordsworth. But since his death his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. W. A. Speck argues that if Southey's poetry is no longer considered as significant, his other writings were more sailent and his political views far more influential than those of his fellow poets. He was, as Byron conceded, England's 'only exsisting entire man of letters'.

Published by : Yale University Press
Published date : 2006
Format : Large Hardback

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Ruskin

Francis O'Gorman
£5.99

A pocket biography of John Ruskin, one of the greatest Victorian art and society critics. With archive photographs and reproductions of rare documents.

Published by : Sutton
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Sam Bough RSA: The Rivers in Bohemia

Gil & Pat Hitchon
£30.00

Sam Bough is one of the nineteenth centurys most intriguing painters. From humble beginnings in Carlisle, he received little formal artistic training, but went on to become a major figure in Scottish art. His vivid landscapes and luminous seascapes are

Published by : The Book Guild Ltd
Published date : 1998
Format : Hardback.

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Sand Pilot of Morecambe Bay

Cedric Robinson
£9.99

An autobiographical book of memoirs about Cedrics life guiding walkers across the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay, foreword by Yorkshire writer Hannah Hauxwell.

Published by : Atlantic Publishers
Published date : 1998
Format : Large paperback.

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Sandman - The Autobiography of Cedric Robinson - Queen's Guide to the Sands

Cedric Robinson
£15.99

Cedric Robinson has become internationally famous over the last forty six years in his unique role as The Queen's Guide to Morecambe Bay Sands, a position which he has now held longer than any of his predecessors going right back to the reign of Henry VIII.



Published by : Great Northern Books
Published date : October 2009
Format : 196mm x 254mm hardback

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Sarah Losh and Wreay Church

Stephen Matthews
£15.00

Sarah Losh built Wreay Church in 1842. It is one of the most delightful, unusual and inspired of all Victorian churches. 'Sarah Losh and Wreay Church' is the story of this remarkable woman and her visionary work.

Published by : BOOKCASE
Published date : May 2007
Format : 170mm x 245mm paperback

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Secret Diary of a Liverpool Scout - Geoff Twentyman

Simon Hughes
£14.99

HANSEN, Rush, Souness, Keegan, Clemence, McDermott, Neal, Kennedy, Heighway, Nicol - the list of great Liverpool players scouted by ex Cumberland Wrestling champion and Carlisle United player, Geoff Twentyman goes on and on.

Published by : Sport Media
Published date : August 2009
Format : 158mm x 240mm hardback

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Senhora Small Fry: Mary Barker and the Lake Poets

David Bradbury
£4.75

This book is a short introduction to the life of a woman who for over 150 years has existed largely as a series of footnotes, in works about a variety of great and goodish people who, for one reason or another, encountered her and whose lives were made

Published by : Past Presented
Published date : 2003
Format : Paperback.

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Servant of Empire

Martin Gibson
£20.00

'Servant of Empire' charts the life of Thomas Wilson Bracken, engineer, railway-builder, soldier and patriot.

Published by : Hayloft
Published date : September 2009
Format : 155mm x 212mm hardback

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Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin
£5.99

A facsimile edition to mark the centenary of the death of John Ruskin. His most popular work.

Published by : Hendon Publishing
Published date : 2000
Format : Small paperback.

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Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836 - 1942

James Price
£6.95

An historical study of a firm of architects in Lancaster.

Published by : University of Lancaster
Published date : 1998
Format : Large paperback.

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She Was Loved: Memories of Beatrix Potter

Josefina de Vasconcellos
£11.95

Josefina de Vasconcellos gives a fascinating insight into her great friendship with Beatrix Potter. Accompanying the text are works by Beatrix Potter herself, including previously unpublished paintings and a series of nature drawings from the Armitt Trust

Published by : Titus Wilson
Published date : 2003
Format : Large paperback.

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Sheepwrecked

Jackie Moffat
£6.99

This journey through the changing seasons at Rowfoot Farm - tupping time in the autumn, winters as wet, bleak and cold here in Cumbria as elsewhere, lambing and the glories of spring, a bucolic, bee-filled Eden Valley summer with its many shows and fairs -



Published by : Bantam Press
Published date : July 2007
Format : 126mm x 198mm paperback

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