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Ascent of Mount Hum A Croatian Cricketing Odyssey
ISBN: HB: 9781904955481, Signal Books, November 2008
320 pp., 22.2x14.1 cm
For sale in CIS only! How on earth did an English pub team end up playing cricket on a remote Croatian island?What linked their booze-fuelled exploits to the British legacy of the Second World War and the Napoleonic era?This book tells the story of...
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£20,00
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Avignon of the Popes City of Exiles
ISBN: PB: 9781904955566, Signal Books, November 2008
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Rome for the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive...
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£9,99
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Learie Constantine
ISBN: PB: 9781904955429, Signal Books, October 2008
208 pp., 18.1x12.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sir Learie Constantine was an extraordinary figure by any yardstick. One of the greatest and most popular of all West Indian cricketers, he left the game to become, among other things, a barrister, cabinet minister, diplomat, b...
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£9,99
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Belgrade A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955436, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Belgrade sits above the confluence of two great rivers, the Sava and Danube. It has been home to many civilizations: Celts, Romans, Byzantines, Bulgars, Magyars, Ottomans and Serbs. Frequently attacked and destroyed, it has bee...
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£12,00
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Brussels A Literary and Cultural History (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781904955474, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its humble origins as a few huts in a forbidding swamp, Brussels took more than a thousand years to become the capital of the Duchy of Brabant and then of Burgundy, and from 1830 the capital city of the new kingdom of Belg...
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£12,00
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Vienna A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955450, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Au...
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£12,00
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Andalucia A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955443, Signal Books, August 2008
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andalucia has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilizations for more than ten thousand years...
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£12,00
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Patagonia A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955382, Signal Books, July 2008
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encomp...
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£12,00
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Bangkok A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955399, Signal Books, March 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Bangkok stands out as a place of extraordinary allure. Beginning as a floating city in a lush tropical setting, known to foreigners as the "Venice of the East", centuries later, its majestic Grand Palace and glittering Buddhist...
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£12,00
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Phnom Penh A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955405, Signal Books, January 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's permanent capital in 1866. Long neglected by Western travellers, in the sixteenth century it was home to Iberian missionaries and fre...
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£12,00
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