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The Seven lives of John Murray : (Record no. 492318)

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International Standard Book Number 9780719565335
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Original cataloging agency Kenya National Library Service
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Classification number 070.509421 CAR
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Personal name Carpenter, Humphrey
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Title The Seven lives of John Murray :
Remainder of title the story of a publishing dynasty 1768-2002/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Humphrey Carpenter ; edited by Candida Brazil ; James Hamilton.
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Summary, etc. From its birth in 1768, when the first John Murray of Edinburgh came down to London, each of the publishing house's seven leaders has made his own contribution to the dissemination of literature and the understanding of the world. One became Byron's publisher and confidante; another began the revolutionary series of Murray handbooks which transformed world travel in the early years of the railways; a third broke controversial new ground with the publication of Queen Victoria's letters. So the tradition progressed to the end of the 20th century, and a list of literary giants including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Osbert Lancaster, Francoise Sagan, and British Poet Laureate, John Betjeman. Written in Carpenter's rollicking and iconoclastic style, it is an affectionate and vibrant account of the longest-surviving publishing house in the worl
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
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Personal name Brazil, Candida
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Personal name Hamilton, James
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