John Tomb's Head
Title | John Tomb's Head PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Johnson |
Publisher | Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2012-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1775530213 |
Returning to the biting and hilarious satire of contemporary New Zealand conveyed so well in the prize-winning The Shag Incident, this is a daring, astute and rollicking novel. John Tomb saw more of the world than most Englishmen of the early nineteenth century. From England to Australia to New Zealand, he led a life of adventure and romance. Two hundred years after his death, his tattooed head is discovered in an American museum. His spirit reawakened, John Tomb wryly observes those who would lay claim to his relic. Among others, there's the New Zealand delegation headed by the Prime Minister and including Tomb's Maori descendants, a leading historian, a prominent carver, the Diplomatic Protection Squad and the Prime Minister's fifteen-year-old daughter. From England come Tomb's English descendants and supporters, eager to take the head back to the land of his birth and their family museum. There is also a wealthy private collector and his clever wife ...
Alabaster Tombs
Title | Alabaster Tombs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781001288215 |
Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts
Title | Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of the Census |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Genealogy |
ISBN |
Alabaster Tombs of the Pre-Reformation Period in England
Title | Alabaster Tombs of the Pre-Reformation Period in England PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Gardner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2011-08-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0521166209 |
First published in 1940, this was the first comprehensive book about British alabaster tombs. It provides a detailed account of the surviving alabaster monuments, from the earliest examples of around 1330 through to those created at the time of the Reformation.
The Draper and clothier
Title | The Draper and clothier PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1068 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Gentleman's Magazine Library
Title | The Gentleman's Magazine Library PDF eBook |
Author | George Laurence Gomme |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster
Title | The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Lemuel Chester |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 660 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Registers of births, etc |
ISBN |