ROYAL DATES WITH DESTINY [Hardcover]

Robert Easton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2010

'Royal Dates with Destiny' is a collection of short vignettes describing the deaths of the world's aristocracy. It is presented in "calendar form, with at least one entry for each day of the year. Based on a number of scholarly sources per entry, these 400 or so "summaries of mortality" give an idiosyncratic and delightfully bizarre historical overview of the surprising ways in which the world's most powerful have died. Each month contains at least a couple of famous royal deaths, yet more often than not the royal will be less well known, yet no less fascinating.

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About the Author

Robert Easton lives and moves across three passions - his love of the Church (he is an Anglican minister), his love of education (he teaches Religious Studies and Latin at Brighton College), and his love of the written word (e.g. his work The Good, the Bad and the Unready, Penguin 2008). He lives and works in Brighton with Kai, his wife, Harry, their dog, and Dugdale, a tangerine-coloured left-hand-drive Citroen 2CV.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Amberley (June 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184868830X
• ISBN-13: 978-1848688308
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,306,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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