Traces remain : essays and explorations
Nicholl, Charles2012
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History leaves its traces all around us. In this stylish, intriguing collection of essays, Charles Nicholl transforms glimpses of the past into witty and poignant vignettes of people and places, from Jacobean pimps to Patagonian giants, from the remnants of a lost Shakespeare play to a new Jack the Ripper suspect, from the trial of Beatrice Cenci in Renaissance Rome to the last days of the poet-boxer Arthur Cravan in a Mexican fishing port. These twenty-five essays pursue fugitive traces of historical evidence with uncanny forensic skill, and reanimate lost times in vivid and compelling detail.
Main title:
Traces remain : essays and explorations / Charles Nicholl.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2012, c2011.
Collation:
xvii, 318 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2011.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780140296822
Dewey class:
920.02
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
66194
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Biography | BIOG 920.02 NICH | Available |