LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael john lyon

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  • The Lyons of Glamis 1750-2000
    Michael John Lyon
    This book continues the various genealogies of the family published in The Lyons of Glamis 1350-1750 in 2015. From 1750 onwards, the heads of the family, the earls of Strathmore, unlike many of their aristocratic counterparts, have managed to hold of their titles and much of their estates through a helter-skelter of marriage, debt, and legal arrangements. However, the vast majo...
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    17,28 €

  • Like A Rolling Stone
    Michael John Lyon
    George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) was a rare combination of African and Arctic explorer. A 'pop star' of his day, he caught the public's Romantic imagination by battling against untrustworthy allies, callous slave owners, destitution, and disease in the desert, and by struggling against freezings, hunger, thirst, and over-exertion in the Polar region. The geographical...
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    17,44 €

  • The Lyons of Glamis 1350-1750
    Michael John Lyon
    This book revises the standard accounts of the Lyons of Glamis. It describes how the family emerged as an entity in the mid-fourteenth century because of Sir John Lyon’s links with a group of prominent crusaders, and how it expanded and progressed over the next four hundred years.If there is a unifying theme to the seven essays in Part One, then it is the shift from a family st...
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    18,30 €

  • Wellington’s Little-Known General
    Michael John Lyon
    The book gives an account of the extraordinary life of Sir James Lyon who was born posthumously on board a transport ship returning to England after the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775). The greater part of it deals with his participation as an infantry officer in several of the campaigns of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Egypt (1801), the Peninsula (1808-11), North ...
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    18,73 €