Imperial Vanities: The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum

by Brian Thompson

Book Overview

'A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson's wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused clich "rattling good yarn" might have been coined to describe.' RICHARD HOLMES

'Victorian Britain, that seemingly most conformist of ages, was in fact teeming with eccentrics. The fabulous Baker Brothers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006532217
• ISBN13: 9780006532217
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"