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All the Land

Lendle Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780857426062, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In "All the Land", Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegene...

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Public Health

No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World

Sasakawa Yohei, Muroji Rei

ISBN: HB: 9781787381377, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure – a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment,...

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Biography & Memoires

Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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Literary Criticism

Henrik Ibsen The Man and the Mask

de Figueiredo Ivo

ISBN: HB: 9780300208818, Yale University Press, February 2019
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.

Henrik Ibsen (1820-1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", and "Ghosts" are all masterpieces of...

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Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole

Soos Frank, Ehrlander Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781602233805, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflectio...

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