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  • The Tomb in Seville
    Norman Lewis
    In 1934, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja travelled across the breadth of Spain on what turned out to be the eve of the murderous civil war. Commissioned by his Sicilian father-in-law to locate the tomb of the last Spanish Corvaja in the cathedral of Seville, when public transport came to a standstill, the two walked more than a hundred miles to Madrid, and we...
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    23,46 €

  • An Empire of the East
    Norman Lewis
    Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: western Sumatra, East Timor and Irian Jaya. Presenting himself as a picture of innocence, he reports only what he observes, using his well-honed tools of irony and humour to deliver a devastating assessment of the brutality of the centra...
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    26,55 €

  • Jackdaw Cake
    Norman Lewis
    With dry, laconic wit, Norman Lewis remembers his transformation from stammering Welsh schoolboy to worldy wise, multilingual sergeant in the Intelligence Corps, on the cusp of becoming a writer.With a calm, observant gaze from the start, the young Norman moves from Spiritualist parents in Enfield to live with supremely dotty aunts in Carmarthen, whose baking of a weekly cake t...
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    26,68 €

  • A Dragon Apparent
    Norman Lewis
    Travelling through Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia in the twilight of the French colonial regime, Norman Lewis witnesses these ancient civilisations as they were before the terrible devastation of the Vietnam War. He creates a portrait of traditional societies struggling to retain their integrity in the embrace of the West. He meets emperors and slaves, brutal plantation owners and sy...
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    25,18 €

  • A View of the World
    Norman Lewis
    Collected between these covers are twenty of Norman Lewis’s finest pieces of travel writing, spanning a period of thirty years. He brings us face to face with Castro’s executioner, with a tragic Ernest Hemingway and with the unchanged lifestyle of the fishermen in an unspoilt Ibiza. He describes the gentle pleasures of Belize, the ferocious blood feuds of Sardinian bandits and ...
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    28,72 €

  • The Honoured Society
    Norman Lewis
    The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini had come close to destroying it. It looks at the Mafia in their homeland - how in attempting to preserve Sicily for the Sicilians in the face of countless invasions, it infiltrated every aspect of the island’s life, corrupting landowners, the police, the judiciary and even the ch...
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    25,44 €

  • In Sicily
    Norman Lewis
    This loving profile of an extraordinary country is based on Lewis’s sixty-year fascination with all things Sicilian. From marrying the daughter of a mafioso exile in the 1930s, to his last trip to Sicily in the late 1990s, Lewis watched the island closely and returned frequently to chronicle its pleasures and its pain. His first wartime visit as a soldier led to numerous trips ...
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    22,34 €

  • Asymptotic Expansions of Solutions of Initial-boundary Value Problems for a Dispersive Hyperbolic Equation
    Norman Bleistein / Robert M Lewis
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    14,79 €

  • Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800 1980
    Norman N. Lewis / Norman NLewis
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    60,44 €

  • A Manual Containing A Short Summary Of The Usual Practice And Manner Of Proceeding In Ordinary Cases Coming Under The Observation Of Justices Of The Peace (1884)
    Edward Norman Lewis
    ''A Manual Containing A Short Summary Of The Usual Practice And Manner Of Proceeding In Ordinary Cases Coming Under The Observation Of Justices Of The Peace'' is a book written by Edward Norman Lewis in 1884. The book provides a comprehensive guide for justices of the peace, outlining the typical practices and procedures used in handling ordinary cases that come before them. Th...
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    29,10 €