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The Fortune Hunter : a German Prince in Regency England.
The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became. The most colourful of these men wa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Luton :
Andrews UK,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became. The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), remembered today as Germany's finest landscape gardener. In the mid-1820s, however, his efforts to turn his estate into a magnificent park came close t ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781908493293 1908493291 9781908493286 1908493283 |