Freedom's own island : the British oceanic expansion / Arthur Bryant with a chapter by John Kenyon.
TITLE:
Freedom's own island : the British oceanic expansion / Arthur Bryant with a chapter by John Kenyon.
Publication Date:
1986
Publication Information:
London : Collins,
Volume:
v. 2
Physical Description:
568 p. : ill., maps, ports.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes index.
Summary:
When Sir Arthur Bryant died in January 1985 he was just one month short of achieving his eighty-sixth birthday. He left behind him no less than three substantial historical manuscripts in an advanced state of preparation. One is a biography of Samuel Johnson, described in this volume (rather too often) as the quintessential Englishman, which he was certainly not, unless there are rather more curmudgeonly lexiographers with wildly reactionary political views and Scottish biographers around in England than I have noticed since I started to go there. The Johnson biography is here described as 'forthcoming', as is apparently the third volume of the sequence of which this is the second: Sir Arthur's history of the British peoples.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780002174114
