The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy.
Britische Politiker beschreiben ihre Heimat gerne als stolze Inselnation, die sich so weit wie möglich vom Geschehen auf dem Kontinent abkoppeln sollte, in Zeiten des Brexits umso häufiger.
Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser, Wenn Sie sich auf die Suche nach den Spuren der Rosenkriege machen wollen, dann sollten Sie nicht über Schlachtfelder spazieren – die sind ohnehin längst umgepflügt oder überbaut.
Es zählt zu den berühmtesten Zitaten der Filmgeschichte, doch unser Verifikationsteam, das jede Ausgabe mit der Akribie eines Schweizer Uhrmachers überprüft, hätte es ganz sicher nicht durchgehen lassen.
Dunkle Materie: So nennen Physiker jenen Stoff, ohne den das Funktionieren des Universums nicht erklärt werden kann – über den die Forscher aber kaum etwas wissen.
Liebe Leserin, lieber LeserDer Kalte Krieg ist ein abgeschlossenes Kapitel der Geschichte – das lehrt die einschlägige historische Fachliteratur, und so erzählen wir es auch in dieser Ausgabe vonG EOEPOCHE.
Liebe Leserin, lieber LeserDie Herrschaft, die Europäer ab etwa 1500 allmählich über weite Teile der Welt ausübten, war im Grundsatz ein brutales System der Unterdrückung, gegründet auf Habsucht, Rassismus und missionarischem Eifer.
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.
This is the story of barbaric murders committed in the dead of night in the midst of a rural community in Joyce Country, on the border between counties Galway and Mayo in 1882.
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.
A warm, witty memoir of one man's escape from the city in an unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book - the 'Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity' guide - in just one year.
Sunday Times Bestseller'Passionate and well-researched' Tatler'A must-read' IndependentA social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world's most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and long-time dog lover Ben Fogle.
A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour.
The third novel from the acclaimed author of The Pied Piper's Poison and The Resurrection ClubLeaving behind a dowdy northern winter for the warming delights of the French Riviera, Martin and his three student friends soon find their feet, turning a tidy profit as beach-bum salesmen and taking to the joys of life by the Mediterranean with relish.
For the first time, the UK's number one TV psychic shares some of his most personal stories and terrifying encounters with the spirit world, and what it's really like to be 'possessed'.
In her third novel, acclaimed author of 'In Search of Adam' and 'Black Boxes' Caroline Smailes draws upon her own family history for a remarkable and unforgettable story of loss and redemption.
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history.
In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as "e;Gouger"e; for the Bulletin.
