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The Leopard: Introduction by David Gilmour
"A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), THE LEOPARD is one of the best-selling Italian novels of the twentieth century and an acclaimed masterpiece of world …
The British in India
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly …
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
One of The Economist's Books of the Year A provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present Did Garibaldi do Italy a …
The Pursuit of Italy
The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a …
The Last Leopard
David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, …
The Film Club
A warmly witty account of the three years a man spent teaching life lessons to his high school dropout son by showing him the world's best (and occasionally worst) films. At the …
An Introduction to Astrobiology
How did life on Earth begin? How common is it elsewhere in the Universe? Written and edited by planetary scientists and astrobiologists, this undergraduate-level textbook provides …
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The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
"Readable and reliable . . . Gilmour's] assessment of the political background of Kipling's writings is exemplary." Earl L. Dachslager, "Houston Chronicle"David Gilmour's superbly …
Long Recessional
Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he added more phrases to the language than …
The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and …