The Vampyre Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron
by Tom Holland
Part fact, part fiction, this is the story of the enigmatic poet, Lord Byron. The vampire first appears in a story written by Byron's physician. Byron's reputation was such that his contemporaries read it as though the story approached the truth. What if it were the truth?
FICTION_OCCULT & SUPERNATURALFICTION_FANTASY_GENERAL
RELEASED1995
PUBLISHERLittle, Brown
LENGTH339
LANGUAGEEN
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
The Vampyre Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron
by Tom Holland
Part fact, part fiction, this is the story of the enigmatic poet, Lord Byron. The vampire first appears in a story written by Byron's physician. Byron's reputation was such that his contemporaries read it as though the story approached the truth. What if it were the truth?
FICTION_OCCULT & SUPERNATURALFICTION_FANTASY_GENERAL
RELEASED1995
PUBLISHERLittle, Brown
LENGTH339
LANGUAGEEN
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
