skip to content
The knife man
ClosePreview this item

The knife man

Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: London : Bantam, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:

Winner of the Medical Journalists' Open Book Award 2005, this book is about John Hunter. Revered and feared in equal measure, Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. An  Read more...

Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: John Hunter
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Wendy Moore
ISBN: 9780553816181 0553816187
OCLC Number: 62760964
Notes: Originally published: 2005.
Awards: Shortlisted for Marsh Biography Award 2007.
Description: 638 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Wendy Moore.

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

"Wendy Moore has done justice to this marvellous man in a biography packed with gruesome facts and eye-opening perceptions. It is an accomplished achievement and a splendid read" The Times "Moore's Read more...

 
User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Linked Data


<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62760964>
library:oclcnum"62760964"
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
owl:sameAs<info:oclcnum/62760964>
rdf:typeschema:Book
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
rdf:typeschema:Person
schema:name"Hunter, John, 1728-1793"
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:author
schema:datePublished"2006"
schema:genre"Biography"
schema:inLanguage"en"
schema:name"The knife man"
schema:numberOfPages"638"
schema:publisher
umbel:isLike<http://bnb.data.bl.uk/id/resource/GBA608226>
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.