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Ingrid Brons | Annemarie Postma Rembrandt in Leiden
portret van een schildersjongen en zijn stad
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 112 pagina's | Boekhandel Kooyker*), Leiden | 2005
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Michael Crichton Pirate latitudes
Het 17e eeuwse Jamaica is het strijdtoneel tussen de koloniserende grootmachten Spanje en Engeland, die zich beide niet houden aan hun vredesverdrag.
Fictie | Historische roman | Zeeverhaal
Engels | 312 pagina's | Harper, London | 2010
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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...
Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Nicholas Carter Harvest of Swords
Rivalry in love and battle in this historical adventure set in the English Civil War. In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. This time, their greatest battles, fought on both land and sea, are with a new enemy, Lord Clavincale. As they struggle through the bitterly cold Dorset winter, their hard-won experience is enough to lead their men, but never...
Engels | 12 uur 21 minuten (541 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Storming Party
Rivalry and battle abound in this action-packed historical adventure of the English Civil War. 1643: Sir William Waller’s army has been defeated on Roundway Down, his infantry left stranded on the bleak slopes at the mercy of the Royalist cavalry. Sir Ralph Hopton is now free to turn his attention to Parliament’s bastion in the West – Bristol. The city walls are strong enough, but Bristol has precious few men and even fewer guns with which to defend them. And to make matters worse, rumour has...
Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Nicholas Carter King's Men Crow
It takes courage to survive in this atmospheric historical adventure set during the English Civil War. August 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Telling may be on different sides, but their dreams and desires are the same. To find the courage to fight proudly and lead their men. For the war to be over and for the love of the incomparable Bella. But only one side can win the war, and only one...
Engels | 12 uur 10 minuten (535 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Celia Rees Witch child
Omdat de 14-jarige Mary in Engeland gevaar loopt als heks te worden beschouwd, reist ze midden 17e eeuw naar Amerika, waar ze met haar geneeskrachtige kruiden velen helpt. Met woordverklaringen. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 120 pagina's | Aschehoug [etc.], Copenhagen [etc.] | 2004
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Nicholas Carter Turncoat's Drum
The country is in turmoil in this thrilling historical adventure of the English Civil War. It is 1643, and the struggle between Parliament and the King erupts in the West Country, tearing families apart and setting village against village. But for some, this fight is not only about crown and country: it is far more personal than that. Royalist soldier Hugo Telling wishes Parliamentarian William Sparrow dead. This rivalry will take them across battlefields the breadth of England, and all for the...
Engels | 11 uur 25 minuten (504 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Ally Sherrick Black powder
Tom is katholiek in het protestantse Engeland. Hij moet kiezen tussen het redden van zijn vader van de galg of het voorkomen van de aanslag op koning James I. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 314 pagina's | Chicken House, Frome, Somerset | 2016
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Minette Walters The swift and the harrier
De belevenissen en oorlogservaringen van een Engelse arts en haar mysterieuze beschermer tegen de achtergrond van de Engelse Burgeroorlog (1642-1648) in Dorset.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 495 pagina's | Allen & Unwin, London | 2021
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René Descartes Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes is often described as the first modern philosopher, but much of the content of his "Meditations on First Philosophy" can be found in the medieval period that had already existed for more than a thousand years. Does God exist? If so, what is his nature? Is the human soul immortal? How does it differ from the body? What role do sense experience and pure reason play in knowing? Descartes stands out from his predecessors because of the method he developed to treat these and other fundamental...
Engels | 3 uur 32 minuten (153 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads Schalken the Painter
"Schalken the Painter" is a ghost short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, taking place in the 17th-century Netherlands. An aspiring painter falls in love with his master’s niece but one day, a mysterious man comes to ask for the niece’s hand, and the master agrees. Yet the heartbroken painter can’t help but feel that is something totally wrong with this new suitor. This is a short story of about greedy family relations, and is a psychologically unnerving and ghastly tale that fans of horror fiction will...
Engels | 58 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Charlotte Betts The spice merchant's wife
De grote brand van 1666 in Londen verandert het leven van een pas met een koopman getrouwde jonge vrouw.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 390 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2013
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Chris Bradford The way of the warrior
Jack Fletcher (12) wordt in 1611 bij de kust van Japan als enige overlevende van zijn schip gered door Samoerai Masamoto Takeshi. Op diens school wordt hij opgeleid in de 'Weg van de Krijger'. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 331 pagina's | Puffin, London [etc.] | 2008
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Jeanette Winterson The Daylight Gate
Fictioneel verslag van het beroemde Pendle heksenproces in het Lancaster van 1612.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 194 pagina's | Arrow Books, London | 2012
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A. Vrij Mensen op tegels
dagelijkse taferelen in de 17de eeuw
Overzicht in woord en beeld van Nederlandse wandtegels met beroepen en andere menselijke bezigheden.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 159 pagina's | PolderVondsten, [Hoorn] | 2010
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G. Schwartz Rembrandt
an audio course on the artist's life and work
In this lecture series, art historian Gary Schwartz surveys the life, time and work of Rembrandt van Rijn. He reflects on both the 17th century historical context in which Rembrandt emerged as an artist, as well as on his superb techniques. Schwartz presents the listener with a unique re-introduction to the artist's biography in which he gives a vivid description of Rembrandt's life and his rich and varied drawings, etchings and paintings, such as the Nightwatch. Inhoud College 1. A Dutch artist's...
Engels | 4 uur | Home Academy, The Hague | 2008
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Daphne du Maurier Frenchman's Creek
Een 17e eeuwse Britse dame trekt zich terug uit het mondaine Londense hofleven en vindt spanning en romantiek aan de kust van Cornwall.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 253 pagina's | Virago, London | 2003
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Ella Schaap Bloemen op tegels in de Gouden Eeuw
van prent tot tegel; and their botanical prints
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 183 pagina's | Becht, Haarlem | 1994
Gedrukt boek
Marijke Donkersloot-de Vrij | H. de La Fontaine Verwey The world on paper
cartography in Amsterdam in the 17th century
Engels | Nederlands | 128 pagina's | 1967
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