The Street Philosopher

Matthew Plampin

earliest edition we have, 2009 HarperCollins, 2009 ebook

There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home – the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused – and the first on which the media had a major influence. The Street Philosopher – the nineteenth-century term for a society writer, a gossip columnist – captures this scene brilliantly.Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier'...

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The street philosopher edition · 2011 · Magna · 634 pages · 9780750533591
Street Philosopher edition · 2009 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 496 pages · 9780007310012
The street philosopher edition · 2009 · HarperCollins · 487 pages · 9780007272433
The Street Philosopher ebook · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780007310043

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