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Books Cumbria : People : Biography : I Felt Like an Adventure - A Life of Mary Burkett

I Felt Like an Adventure - A Life of Mary Burkett

Ben Verinder
£17.50

Mary Burkett has led a wide and exciting life, travelling extensively in the Middle East and beyond. She is an author, adventurer, curator, historian and internationally acclaimed authority on felt.
Her story is one of Assassins' castles and Eastern adventures, Henry VIII's favourite and Charlemagne's champion, summers in the South of France and winters in a haunted Cumbrian castle, the pilgrimage to Meshed and a long drive to Persia, of L S Lowry, Howard somerville, Alfred Wainwright, Patrick O'Brian, Freya Stark, Kurt Switters and Stalin's daughter.

Publisher : The Memoir Club
Published : November 2008
Pages : 112
Format : 160mm x 240mm hardback
Illustrations : Black & white photographs
ISBN : 9781841041896

I Felt Like an Adventure - A Life of Mary Burkett
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