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Lahore: The Historic City The Historic City and Regional Cultural Heritage
ISBN: HB: 9783791358567, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
368 pp., 28x22 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
The cultural capital of Pakistan, and one of the world's most historically fascinating cities – Lahore – has retained much of its historic heritage despite centuries of turbulence. Today it remains a vibrant epicenter of commercial and cultural activ...
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£45,00
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Long Rider to Rome 1400 Miles by Pilgrim Horse from Canterbury
ISBN: PB: 9781909930674, Signal Books, August 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Still hooked on adventure after their long pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a few years later Mefo Phillips and her spotted horse Leo set off again from Canterbury, this time heading for Rome, with Mefo's husband Peter onc...
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£12,99
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London Prints and Drawings before 1800
ISBN: HB: 9781851244126, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
232 pp., 23.8x27.8 cm, 123 colour illus.
By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used means of creating a visual record of the changing c...
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£30,00
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Lima A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669984, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Formerly the viceregal capital of Spain's vast South American empire, Lima is today a sprawling metropolis struggling to cope with a population of eight million. Located on the coast between the Andean foothills and the Pacific...
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£12,00
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Latin Inscriptions in Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781851244300, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2015
104 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
For the first six centuries from the institution's foundation, Latin was the language spoken and written at the University of Oxford. It's no surprise, then, to find that the inscriptions carved into the monuments, colleges and municipal buildings of...
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£9,99
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London in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244010, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford", said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a "riddle", a "cesspool" and a "modern Babylon", and both L...
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£3,00
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Long Walk with Lord Conway An Exploration of the Alps and an English Adventurer
ISBN: HB: 9781908493804, Signal Books, June 2013
320 pp., 22.2x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Are-exploration of the historic journey made by the first man to walk the Alpsfrom 'end to end'. In 1894, Martin Conway became the firstman to walk the Alps 'from end to end' when he completed a 1,000-mile journeyfrom the Col d...
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£16,99
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Lagos A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493057, Signal Books, October 2012
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Made up of a curious network of islands and lagoons, Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world The unique melting pot culture of Lagos has produced literary and artistic achievements that are only just beginning t...
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£12,00
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Loire A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955672, Signal Books, September 2010
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Gustave Flaubert called the Loire "the most French of French rivers". It is the longest river in France and the most varied in scenery and moods. Beginning as a mountain stream in the Ardeche, it issues, 630 miles later, into t...
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£12,00
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London Observed A Polish Philosopher at Large, 1822-24
ISBN: PB: 9781904955641, Signal Books, September 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The philosopher and writer Krystin Lach-Szyrma came to Britain in 1820 as tutor to two Polish princes, as their Grand Tour took them to Enlightenment Scotland, where they spent two years studying at Edinburgh University. After...
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