A.N. WILSON

A. N. Wilsons powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britains period of expansion and exploration.Wilsons protagonist, witness to Cooks brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cooks second expedition to the southern hemisphere, and penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back and forth across time, to depict Forsters time with Cook, and his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution.Wilson once again demonstrates his great powers as a master craftsman of the historical and the human in this richly evoked novel, which brings to life the real and the extraordinary, brilliantly drawing together a remarkable cast of characters in order to look at human endeavour, ingenuity and valour.

A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration.

A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook's second expedition to the southern hemisphere, and penned a famous account of the journey.

Afirmar que Londres es una ciudad apasionante es algo que no admite discusión. El ambiente de sus calles y parques, la diversidad y creatividad de sus habitantes y la capacidad para imponer tendencias sociales y modas han hecho de esta urbe un punto de encuentro clave de la cultura, la industria y la política europea y mundial. Londres, canalla y aristocrático, es un espacio físico y emocional impregnado por el espíritu de Chaucer u Oscar Wilde, por el ritmo de los Beatles, por el recuerdo de las grandes edificacioens victorianas o por las marcadas señas de identidad de la arquitectura de vanguardia. Un libro breve, entretenido e informado sobre la ciudad de Londres que atraerá tanto a quienes desean viajar a la ciudad y tener la información histórica que no viene en una guía como a los que quieran conocer más a fondo su ciudad favorita.

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures In this respect, the Fuhrer is presented as a man ahead of his time, who foreshadowed Hollywood and TV stars and post-war politicians. In a field dense with lengthy tomes, this brief, penetrating portrait provides a compelling introduction to a man whose evil continues to fascinate and appal.

When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? This is one of the questions which A. N. Wilson seeks to answer in his masterly follow-up to The Victorians.

The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery Companies. In Tudor and Stuart London many believed the city was being wrecked by over-population, over-building and the greed of speculators. Eighteenth-century London witnessed the South Sea Bubble, gin, highwaymen and the Gordon riots; but also banking, hospitals, and the elegant design of everyday things. In the nineteenth century, expanding vigorously, the city resisted any overall make-over. With Queen Victoria came the Railway Age, which made and unmade the city. Chartism, anti-semitism, overcrowding and cholera. But engineering triumphs too. If the First World War was a nightmare happening elsewhere, the amazing six years of 1939-45 were the city's finest hour. Post-1945, property developers took over, with disastrous results. The author celebrates the cosmopolitan city that mobility and immigration have created, while deploring the moronization' of the city, exemplified by the Millennium Dome and Ken Livingstone's 2002 London Plan.