Name: Lemprieres Dictionary 9780749398194 Paperback
SKU: 9780749398194
Availability: InStock

Lemprieres Dictionary 9780749398194 Paperback

As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the...

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Secure Payment Processing
Fast & Reliable Delivery
Easy Returns & Exchange

Description
Reviews (0)

As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of thirty thousand men, women and children. Almost two centuries later, in 1788, John Lemprire published his classical dictionary. This much is fact. Lawrence Norfolk tells us how the first two events led, inescapably, to the third.This amazing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery and multinational financial conspiracies, and leads a motley cast of scholars and eccentrics, drunk aristocrats and whores, assassins and octogenarian pirates through two centuries and three continents to the brink of French Revolution.John Lemprire reluctantly enters this world as an introverted scholar, obsessed by the myths of antiquity. At the end of this astonishing story he understands that it takes far more than learning to lay the ghosts of the past to rest.

Add a Review

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Languages

Shopping Cart

Lemprieres Dictionary 9780749398194 Paperback

Description

Reviews (0)

Related Products

The Raven Song 9781837320264 Paperback

Run For Your Life 9780008544614 Paperback

The Lies Between Us 9781844886913 Paperback

To Die For 9781837320240 Paperback