An English Christmas by John Julius Norwich
A Christmas anthology from legendary historian and Christmas Cracker compiler, John Julius Norwich.
Its contents are like those of a Christmas stocking, in that small nuggets jostle alongside much larger pieces * The Times *
A charming introduction that's almost worth the admission price alone * The Spectator *
A charming introduction that's almost worth the admission price alone * The Spectator *
After National Service, John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. His publications include The Normans in Sicily; Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell); Sahara; The Architecture of Southern England; Glyndebourne; and A History of Venice. He was also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire. He wrote and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and was a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects. Lord Norwich was chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was made a CVO in 1993.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781473665927 |
| ISBN 10 | 1473665922 |
| Title | An English Christmas |
| Author | John Julius Norwich |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2017-11-16 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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