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Guide to Peril Strait and Wrangell Narrows, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234000, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
150 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 6 maps, 5 charts, 10 halftones
Learning how to pilot a ship through Wrangell Narrows and Peril Strait is not an easy matter for a vessel operator new to the area, or even for those with experience. It takes time, patience, and a certain appetite for risk. The older generation of c...
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£24,00
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Girl's Guide to the Wild Be an Adventure-Seeking Outdoor Explorer!
ISBN: PB: 9781632171719, GMC Group, Sasquatch Books, July 2019
256 pp., 19x14 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Your definitive guide to getting outside – for girls ages 9-12! In addition to basic outdoor skills, this entertaining guidebook includes easy camping recipes, outdoor projects including science experiments and c...
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£14,99
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Great Pubs of London Pocket Edition
ISBN: HB: 9783791385143, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
240 pp., 18.9x14.7 cm, 210 colour illus.
For centuries, the pub has been an essential part of London's cultural and social fabric. This book takes readers through the doors of 25 historically and architecturally significant London pubs. Through photographs specially commissioned for this pr...
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£14,99
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Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary
ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...
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£34,00
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Guide to the Getty Villa Revised Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781606065471, Getty Publications, May 2018
132 pp., 24.4x14.1 cm, 165 colour illus., 20 black&white illus., 3 maps
It begins with the history of the site, recounting how, as J. Paul Getty's art collection grew, he chose to house it in a replica of the ancient Roman villa at Herculaneum now known as the Villa dei Papiri. The second chapter chronicles the destructi...
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£11,99
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Germany: Beyond the Enchanted Forest A Literary Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781908493774, Signal Books, May 2013
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! "German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour", wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany during the First World War. When, he asked, had the bristling general replaced the 'philosophers and composer...
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£12,99
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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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