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The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

By: Miles Morland

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The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

By: Miles Morland

At the age of 45 Miles Morland resigned from his highly paid job as head of the UK division of a major American bank and went for a walk with his wife in France. Neither of them was used to walking further than the distance between a restaurant and a waiting taxi. They walked from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 350 miles through the foothills of the Pyrenees, staying in small country inns and occasionally sleeping out along the way. The author describes the pleasures and agonies of the walk and reflects frequently and with relief on the life from which he has escaped. The pressures of his former life had affected him in many ways, the repercussions including divorce and then remarriage to his former wife Guislaine.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408863642

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9781408863640

Cobra in the Bath

Adventures in Less Travelled Lands

By: Miles Morland

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Cobra in the Bath

Adventures in Less Travelled Lands

By: Miles Morland

Miles Morland is an adventurer. He was born in India to a naval father and a dangerously glamorous mother. When his parents divorced, Miles followed his mother to Tehran, which they had to leave in a hurry, and on to Baghdad, which they also had to leave in a hurry after the 1958 revolution. His early years were filled with desert journeys, riots, perilous near-misses, and adventures worthy of Kipling, after which he was sent to England for a 'proper' education. Later, following years of shouting down a Wall Street telephone, Miles threw in his job, bought a giant motorbike and set off to discover things in places others did not want to go. Deported at gunpoint from Romania, saved from assassination in Ethiopia by a lucky plane crash, riding an Enfield Bullet through Ooty and following Che over the Andes – Miles has a knack of finding trouble. Brilliantly observed and told with unique humour, Cobra in the Bath will have you crying with laughter and scared out of your wits.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408863693

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9781408863695

Gothic writing 1750–1820

A genealogy

By: Robert Miles

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Gothic writing 1750–1820

A genealogy

By: Robert Miles

Now available again in paperback, this provocative study by Robert Miles uses the tools of modern literary theory and criticism to analyse this very distinctive body of texts. Miles introduces the reader to contexts of Gothic in the eigteenth century including its historical development and its placement within the period's concerns with discourse and gender. By using texts ranging from sensational novels such as The Monk and The Mysteries of Udolpho, poetic variations on Gothic by Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, to satirical works on the theme by Jane Austen, Miles presents an intriguing overview of Gothic literature. By drawing extensively on the ideas of Michel Foucault to establish a genealogy he brings Gothic writing in from the margins of 'popular fiction', resituating it at the centre of debate about Romanticism.

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257

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Manchester University Press

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1526125714

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9781526125712

The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe

Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker

By: Blessing-Miles Tendi

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The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe

Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker

By: Blessing-Miles Tendi

An essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.

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351

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Cambridge University Press

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1108472893

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9781108472890

Ann Radcliffe

The Great Enchantress

By: Robert Miles

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Ann Radcliffe

The Great Enchantress

By: Robert Miles

To her contemporaries, Ann Radcliffe was 'The Great Enchantress'. Her wild and stormy Gothic romances made her one of the most popular and successful writers of the later eighteenth century.

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212

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Manchester University Press

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0719038294

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9780719038297

The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846–1849

By: Miles Taylor

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The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846–1849

By: Miles Taylor

An account of the European vision of one of the most influential statesmen and thinkers of the nineteenth-century. This edition of the previously unpublished travel diaries of the M.P. and economic writer Richard Cobden (1804-1865) is not only a revealing account of Anglo-European politics before, during and after the year of revolutions, but is also a travel guide to Europe in the pre-railway age and a contribution to the intellectual biography of an English provincial radical who became a major European celebrity, one of the founders of Free Trade. During his extensive continental travels Cobden met most of the monarchs and leading statesmen of Europe, as well as artists, writers, churchmen and fellow-travellers. His tour through France, Spain, the Italian states, Austria, Prussia, Russia and the Hanseatic ports let him witness the struggles between order and progress which led to and succeeded the great upheavals of 1848. The diaries reveal Cobden in a new light - a determined European, convinced that economic cooperation and not protectionism and militarism was the only way to preserve international stability.

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345

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Routledge

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1351890328

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9781351890328

Romantic Misfits

By: R. Miles

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Romantic Misfits

By: R. Miles

This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include the Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself, and the culture of Dissent.

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Springer

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0230582273

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9780230582279

The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

By: Miles Morland

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Miles Away

A Walk Across France

By: Miles Morland

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Miles Away

A Walk Across France

By: Miles Morland

A lighthearted account of a four-hundred-mile walk across France explains why the author left a prestigious position in banking to enjoy life to its fullest and captures the delights, agonies, and rewards of the journey. 15,000 first printing.

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238

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Random House Incorporated

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0679425276

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9780679425274

Marco Polo

By: David Butler,Keith Miles

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Marco Polo

By: David Butler,Keith Miles

Seventeen-year-old Marco Polo becomes one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia and finds adventure as a trusted companion of the legendary Kublai Khan.

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436

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Dell Publishing Company

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0440157544

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9780440157540

A Passion for Equality

The Life of Jimmy Stewart

By: Vicki Miles-LaGrange,Bob Burke

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A Passion for Equality

The Life of Jimmy Stewart

By: Vicki Miles-LaGrange,Bob Burke

Jimmy Stewart was at the forefront of the struggle for civil rights in Oklahoma for almost a half century. Among his many great qualitites were integrity and a passion for equality. As a national leader of the NAACP, he played a major role in developing local, state, and national civil rights policies. He headed the NAACP in Oklahoma City during tumultous times of school desegregation and integration.

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188559612X

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9781885596123

Cobra in the Bath

Adventures in Less Travelled Lands

By: Miles Morland

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The Man who Broke Out of the Bank-- and Went for a Walk in France

By: Miles Morland

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The Man who Broke Out of the Bank-- and Went for a Walk in France

By: Miles Morland

At the age of 45 Miles Morland resigned from his highly paid job as head of the UK ision of a major American bank and went for a walk with his wife in France. Neither of them was used to walking further than the distance between a restaurant and a waiting taxi. They walked from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 350 miles through the foothills of the Pyrenees, staying in small country inns and occasionally sleeping out along the way. The author describes the pleasures and agonies of the walk and reflects frequently and with relief on the life from which he has escaped. The pressures of his former life had affected him in many ways, the repercussions including orce and then remarriage to his former wife Guislaine.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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0747511330

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9780747511335

Book's by Miles Morland

The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

Cobra in the Bath

Cobra in the Bath

Gothic writing 1750–1820

Gothic writing 1750–1820

The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe

The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe

Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe

The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846–1849

The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846–1849

Romantic Misfits

Romantic Misfits

The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

Miles Away

Miles Away

Marco Polo

Marco Polo

A Passion for Equality

A Passion for Equality

Cobra in the Bath

Cobra in the Bath

The Man who Broke Out of the Bank-- and Went for a Walk in France

The Man who Broke Out of the Bank-- and Went for a Walk in France

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