DEAD CERTAINTIES (UNWARRANTED SPECULATIONS)
Written by Simon Schama
Published by Granta Books
in 1991
ISBN: 0140142304
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DEAD CERTAINTIES (UNWARRANTED SPECULATIONS)
Written by Simon Schama.
Stock no. 1330903
1st.
1991.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A history of stories. Black boards, silver title to spine. 333 pages. Some b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0140142304. Wrapper is price-cut.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- One The Many Deaths of General Wolfe
- 1 At The Face of the Cliff
- 2 In Command
- 3 Deep in the Forest
- 4 On the Heights of Abraham
- Two Death of a Harvard Man
- 1 Honest Sweat: The Blacksmith's Son
- 2 Income: The Pedestrian
- 3 Enterprise: The Janitor
- 4 Debt: Skyrocket Jack
- 5 Taking Stock: The Prisoner and the Public
- 6 Accounts Rendered: Lawyers, Doctors and Other Solid Citizens
- 7 Payment Pending: The Press, the Preachers and the Prisoner
- 8 Settlements: The Legatees
- Afterword
- A Note on Sources