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Shaka

series A Jacana pocket biography
Paperback / softback 11 Mar 2011
Publisher Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770099623
Dewey: 968.04092
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Thomas Sankara : An African revolutionary

series A Jacana pocket biography
Paperback / softback 30 Mar 2024
Publisher Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781431421091
Dewey: 966.2505
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Josie Mpama/Palmer

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Paperback / softback 21 May 2021
Publisher Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781431431298
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Oliver Tambo

series A Jacana pocket biography
Paperback / softback 17 Aug 2017
ISBN: 9781431425631
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Edith Cavell : Nurse and War-Heroine

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1995
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400285
Dewey: 610.73092
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Jane Austen

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 May 1998
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753103357
Dewey: 823.7
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Horatio Nelson : Vice Admiral of the White

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 7 Apr 2000
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400889
Dewey: 359.331092
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Queen Alexandra : Consort to Edward VII

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 8 Apr 2000
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400872
Dewey: 941.0823092
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John Sell Cotman: Artist Extraordinary

series Pocket biography
Paperback 28 Feb 2003
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9781904006114
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Sigmund Freud

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 May 1998
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753103326
Dewey: 150.1952092
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Marilyn Monroe

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 May 1998
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753103333
Dewey: 791.43028092
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Mao Zedong

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 Aug 1998
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753103340
Dewey: 951.05092
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Beethoven

series Pocket biographies
CD-Audio 1 Aug 1998
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753104156
Dewey: 780.92
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Scott of the Antarctic

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 Nov 1998
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753105009
Dewey: 919.8904
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Lawrence of Arabia

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 May 1999
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753106013
Dewey: 940.415092
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The Brontes

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 May 1999
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753106020
Dewey: 823.809
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Winston Churchill

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 May 1999
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753106037
Dewey: 941.082092
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Che Guevara

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 Aug 1999
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753106419
Dewey: 972.91064092
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Christopher Columbus

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Audio cassette 1 Aug 1999
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753106426
Dewey: 970.015092
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Martin Luther King

series Pocket biographies
Audio cassette 1 Aug 1999
Publisher ISIS Audio Books
ISBN: 9780753106433
Dewey: 323.119607302
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Robert Walpole : First 'Prime Minister'

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1995
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400292
Dewey: 941.072092
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Margery Kempe : 'Mystic' of King's Lynn

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1995
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400308
Dewey: 248.22092
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Herbert De Losinga : First Bishop of Norwich

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1995
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400315
Dewey: 283.092
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Anna Sewell : Author of "Black Beauty"

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1996
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400414
Dewey: 823.8
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Walter Rye : Athlete and Antiquary

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1996
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400421
Dewey: 796.092
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Fanny Burney : Diarist and Novelist

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1996
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400438
Dewey: 823.6
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Sir Alfred Jodrell : Philanthropist

series Larks Pocket Biographies S.
Paperback / softback 1 May 1996
Publisher The Larks Press
ISBN: 9780948400445
Dewey: 361.74092
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Thabo Mbeki

series A Jacana pocket biography
Paperback / softback 16 Oct 2016
ISBN: 9781431423309
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Jack Simons : Teacher, scholar and comrade

series A Jacana pocket biography
Paperback / softback 16 May 2016
ISBN: 9781431423347
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Byron

series Pocket biographies
Paperback / softback 22 Jun 2000
ISBN: 9780750921244
Dewey: 821.7
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