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“jasper rees”

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  • A Devil to Play

    One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

    by Jasper Rees ...
    In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years, and, on a lark, plays it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society.Despite an embarrassingly poor performance, the experience inspires Rees to embark on a daunting, bizarre, and ultimately winning journey: ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Florence Foster Jenkins

    The Inspiring True Story of the World's Worst Singer

    by Nicholas Martin, Jasper Rees ...
    This is the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins—now the basis of a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep!She was a woman with a dream. Nobody believed in her talent. But nothing could stop her. . .She had no pitch, no rhythm, and no tone. Still, Florence Foster Jenkins (Streep) became one of America's best-known sopranos. Born in 1868, Florence was a talented ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bred of Heaven: One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots

    One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots

    by Jasper Rees ...
    Jasper Rees has always wanted to be Welsh. But despite Welsh grandparents (and a Welsh surname) he is an Englishman: by birth, upbringing and temperament. In this singular, hilarious love letter to a glorious country so often misunderstood, Rees sets out to achieve his goal of becoming a Welshman by learning to sing, play, work, worship, think - and above all, speak - like one. On the way he meets ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Wenger

    The Making of a Legend

    by Jasper Rees ...
    Granted access to Wengers friends and family, players and rival managers, Jasper Rees has written the untold story behind this private man. He follows Wenger from childhood in Alsace, through his stints as a journeyman player, to his coaching days at Nancy, Monaco, Grampus Eight and Arsenal. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Blizzard - Race to the Pole

    by Jasper Rees ...
    In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but also to live to tell the tale. Six months later, Robert Falcon Scott and four of his party were dead, while Roald Amundsens victory had been wired ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

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    Florence Foster Jenkins

    The biography that inspired the critically-acclaimed film

    by Nicholas Martin, Jasper Rees ...
    Narrated by Katherine E. Kellgren ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    This is the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins—now the basis of a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep!She was a woman with a dream. Nobody believed in her talent. But nothing could stop her. . .She had no pitch, no rhythm, and no tone. Still, Florence Foster Jenkins (Streep) became one of America’s best-known sopranos. Born in 1868, Florence was a talented ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    by Alfred Lansing ...
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  • Mawson

    And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on his way to fulfil a national dream he had first conceived three years earlier, while on his first ... Read more

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  • Every Good Boy Does Fine

    A Love Story, in Music Lessons

    by Jeremy Denk ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music—its power, its meanings, and what it can teach us about ourselves—from the MacArthur “Genius” Grant–winning pianistLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “Jeremy Denk has written a love letter to the music, and especially to the music teachers, in his life.”—Conrad Tao, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • An Unsung Hero

    by Michael Smith ...
    The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in Antarctic exploration. He spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton, and outlived both. Among the last to see Scott alive, Crean was in the search party that found the frozen body. An unforgettable story of triumph over unparalleled hardship and deprivation. ... Read more

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  • Gareth Malone’s Guide to Classical Music

    The Perfect Introduction to Classical Music

    by Gareth Malone ...
    Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal eBook, previously published as ‘Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music’, Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that explains and entertains in equal measure.Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might ... Read more

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  • The Life and Death of Classical Music

    Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

    by Norman Lebrecht ...
    In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording has reached its end ... Read more

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