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Finding True North First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Build Modern Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234437, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Melting sea ice and simmering volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig got a job at the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner following journalism school. An environmentalist at heart,...
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£18,00
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Atlas of an Anxious Man
ISBN: PB: 9780857426314, Seagull Books, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Atlas of an Anxious Man", Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary – a sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique account fol...
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£16,99
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That Untravell'd World Seven Journeys Through Turkey
ISBN: PB: 9781909930766, Signal Books, April 2019
292 pp., 21x15 cm
For sale in CIS only! Nicholas Dylan Ray grew up next to an American national park, whose mountains and forests he explored to escape his troubled home. As a young man, he left the United States, and aged twenty-two set out on a six-month journey fr...
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£12,99
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Do You See Ice? Inuit and Americans at Home and Away
ISBN: HB: 9780226580135, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Many Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, however – the one experienced by native Inuit and others who worked and traveled there – is a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and my...
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£38,00
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Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226214153, ISBN: HB: 9780226721842, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings
In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost the...
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£19,00
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£39,00
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Umbria A Cultural Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781908493859, Signal Books, July 2013
504 pp., 21x15.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Umbria, "the Green Heart of Italy", is a fascinating region of Etruscan and Roman monuments, medieval castles and cathedrals, and the Renaissance art of Giotto, Perugino and the young Raphael. Everywhere, vibrant cities, evocat...
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£14,99
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Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
ISBN: PB: 9780300143201, Yale University Press, August 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to...
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£19,00
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Ancient Sukhothai Thailand's Cultural Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9789749863428, Prestel Publishing, River Books, May 2008
248 pp., 24.9x17.9 cm, illustrations throughout
This guide covers the history and art of the early Kingdom of Sukhothai, which was situated in the fertile Yom River basin of north-central Thailand and comprises the cities of Sukhothai, Si Satchanalai and Kamphaeng Phet. Renowned for artistic achie...
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£16,95
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Seeing the Getty Villa
ISBN: PB: 9780892368334, Getty Publications, February 2006
64 pp., 15.2x15.2 cm, 70 colour illus.
This beautiful souvenir book captures the visual delights, both man-made and natural, of the newly renovated Getty Villa, set to open in winter 2006. More than seventy colour photographs artfully record the stunning architecture and grounds of the Vi...
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£7,99
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