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Irish Eccentrics A Selection(1st Edition)
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 286 Pages, Published 1975 by Harper And Row
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-013908-7, ISBN: 0-06-013908-0

"MacThomas, Eamonn. Me Jewel and Darlin Dublin. Dublin, 1974 Madden, O. Revelations of Ireland. Dublin, 1848 Malcomson, APW The extraordinary career of the ..."






The Irish Country House(1st Edition)
A Social History
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 1995 by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
Import
ISBN-13: 978-1-85619-237-8, ISBN: 1-85619-237-7

"Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [16], 384 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography: p. 367-373. - and index. Summary; For 700 years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland: landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents, be ..."






Cappaghglass(1st Edition)
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1985 by Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13: 978-0-241-11541-1, ISBN: 0-241-11541-8






Dublin(1st Edition)
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1979 by H. Hamilton
ISBN-13: 978-0-241-10111-7, ISBN: 0-241-10111-5

"Exploring the development of Dublin from the intimate centre over which Leopold Bloom wandered, where George Moore and W.B. Yeats met casually, to the undistinguished urban sprawl of today. It presents a portrait of the heritage and atmosphere of this Irish city."






A Shaggy Yak Story(1st Edition)
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1991 by Trafalgar Square Books (J)
ISBN-13: 978-1-85619-038-1, ISBN: 1-85619-038-2

"As a boy Peter Somerville-Large was captivated by travellers' accounts of Central Asia. In 1953 when he was in his early 20s he was appointed lecturer in English to the Royal Military College in Kabul, still then a small town of bazaars and catwalks, whose citizens proudly retained ancient Moslem custom and values. For 18 months he struggled to teach Milton, fairy stories and the elements of rugby to cadets in the eccentric atmosphere o ..."






To the Navel of the World(1st Edition)
Yaks and Unheroic Travels in Nepal and Tibet
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1988 by Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13: 978-0-241-12108-5, ISBN: 0-241-12108-6






CAVIAR COAST.(1st Edition)
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1968 by The Travel Book Club
ISBN-13: 978-0-7091-0097-3, ISBN: 0-7091-0097-3






Where a Man Can Go(1st Edition)
Major General William Phillips, British Royal Artillery, 1731-1781 (Contributions in Military Studies)
by Robert P. Davis, Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Praeger
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31020-1, ISBN: 0-313-31020-3

"This is the first published account of the life of Major General William Phillips, a British officer whose achievements during the American Revolution place him in the ranks of Britain's most successful generals such as Charles Cornwallis. Although he was a commoner, Phillips rose from the rank of cadet in the Royal Artillery Academy, distinguished himself through remarkable achievements in Europe's Seven Years War, and went on to comma ..."






From Bantry Bay to Leitrim;(1st Edition)
A journey in search of O'Sullivan Beare
by Peter Somerville-Large
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1974 by Gollancz
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-01600-2, ISBN: 0-575-01600-0

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