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The Bodley Head, UK, Date: 2012. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Slight foxing front/rear pages, most of text is clean. Dust Jacket slightly sun faded. Minor marks and wear to book and jacket. ISBN/EAN: 9781847921147.. 9781847921147 2012. The Bodley Head ISBN 1847921140 9781847921147 [AU]

ISBN10: 1847921140, ISBN13: 9781847921147, [publisher: Random House Children's Books] Hardcover We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestsellingTime Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries and winning military victories and yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language and some of the ...
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The Bodley Head, 1st edition, 2012. Hbk 420pp, illustr in b+w, SIGNED by the author on the title page, an unread copy, excellent clean tight unmarked in an unclipped and sleeve-protected dj as new The Bodley Head, 1st edition, 2012 ISBN 1847921140 9781847921147 [US]