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Peter Hunt

    Peter Hunt es un distinguido académico británico cuyo trabajo examina críticamente la literatura infantil. Fue pionero en el estudio académico de la literatura infantil en el Reino Unido, influyendo en estudiantes a nivel mundial a través de sus extensas conferencias. Las contribuciones de Hunt abarcan el análisis crítico y la ficción original para jóvenes lectores, profundizando en el significado trascendental de las historias infantiles. Su enfoque se caracteriza por un meticuloso examen textual y una contextualización dentro de marcos culturales más amplios.

    The Making of The Wind in the Willows
    The Fairy Penguin's Lesson and Other Tales
    How Did Long John Silver Lose his Leg
    War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens
    Gardening for all
    Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians
    • 2023

      Out of the chaos of war emerges a new and inspired people. As their power grows so does their legend. Before long the welfare of the old peoples of this land rests with this new and innovative culture. As the Vikings push for total dominance of Britannia only the English from the city of Worchester stand in their way. One young man must lead the fight in this fictional tale of Angles, Vikings, Picts and Celts.

      The Worchester Chronicles Book 1: A Fragmented Land Unites
    • 2023

      Britain's vast losses of men in the first world war produced a revulsion against conscription. Originally published in 1972, Peter Dennis here describes how conscription was introduced once more in 1939, when pressure from within Britain and from France forced the British Government to reverse its position.

      Decision by Default
    • 2023

      This book is the sequel to Peter Hunt's memoir about his childhood entitled Child of a Bygone Era. Born in Brighton in 1940, it was at the end of the war that his father, a chartered accountant, was sent to develop his company's office in Hong Kong. There Peter lived with his parents and flourished until, at the age of seven, he was sent back to two boarding schools (preparatory and public) in post-war England. This memoir continues the story of his life from his days at Trinity College, Dublin to a life in London in advertising and marketing through the 1960s and 1970s. To give the reader an idea of the pleasure in reading this memoir, this is a quote from the publisher's acceptance letter. "We can confidently state that your work was found to be a compelling memoir, full of fantastic takeaways the reader can benefit from. You have expressed your experiences in an incredibly emotive way, conjuring a strong sense of engagement in the reader... The exquisite writing style and honesty with which you detail your experiences make this story one that will intrigue many. The author will be delighted if you receive the same pleasure from reading this book as the publisher would seem to have acquired.

      The Growing Pains of a Colonial Boy
    • 2021

      Vor 150 Jahren erschienen »Alice im Wunderland« und »Alice hinter den Spiegeln«. Peter Hunt gratuliert mit einem wunderschön illustrierten Band. Er erzählt, wie die berühmten Nonsens-Romane entstanden und ihren Siegeszug um die ganze Welt antraten. Das ideale Geschenkbuch für alle großen und kleinen Fans!

      Die Erfindung von Alice im Wunderland
    • 2021

      It is the 12th century, and the world is a dangerous place. The Khan with the Golden Horde are marching through village after village, killing their way across Asia and into Europe. There are empires such as the Ottoman and Holy Roman Empires seeking to expand their influence and there are ruthless leaders suppressing their people with utter brutality.Whether you are a little person or a powerful person, it is not safe to live in this world. There are no safe havens, no peaceful corners.However, there is one boy who offers hope. A wild child who grows up free and adventurous in the mountains behind his remote village. A boy with a desire to fight. A boy with such determination and courage that, as he grows, he begins to bind the warring peoples of the earth together.The Original - World at War is the story of Courtier, a man from the small village of Utelle, a village up in the toes of the European Alps mountain range. Be it fate or the will of God, Courtier finds himself in the fight of his life to save his loved ones. This fight ends up defining him and his family's fate and, over his lifetime, shapes the world as we know it today.

      The Original - World at War
    • 2021

      This book is written with charm and humour by a child who grew up between two worlds - an idyllic childhood in Hong Kong in the 1950s which was shattered by his return to England at the age of seven to a new life as a boarder at a Catholic preparatory school. From the age of seven to seventeen, he travels between these worlds and comments on all the changes that occur in this dynamic decade. He sees Hong Kong develop from an entrepot to a booming manufacturing powerhouse with the effect this has on the Cantonese and their relationship with Europeans and compares this life to the smog-bound, tired English way of life only just beginning to recover from the devastation of the Second World War. It is a joy to read and is a fascinating record of two worlds by a child of a bygone age.

      Child of a Bygone Era
    • 2020

      Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two remarkable stories, which takes us on a guided tour from the treacle wells of Victorian Oxford through an astonishing world of politics, philosophy, humour - and nightmare.

      Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland, The
    • 2020

      A slightly abridged edition of this classic wargame text with artwork for the Red and Blue armies as individual Paperboys .

      Hg Wells' Little Wars
    • 2019

      And suddenly Garston envied them, these Mamba Africans. Their nationhood was something new and fresh; the issues they would face were not old, tired problems about atom bombs and spheres of ideological influence.

      Sunset on the Pearl of Africa
    • 2019

      The second title in The Paperboys on Campaign series, some 46 pages of artwork enabling you to make French, British, Portuguese, Spanish, and several other countries' troops which fought for and against the Iron Duke in his epic campaign against Napoleon's forces.

      The Peninsular War