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Sails & Winds A Cultural History of Valencia
ISBN: PB: 9781909930759, Signal Books, April 2019
388 pp., 21x15 cm
For sale in CIS only! The towns of Valencia's long coast and privileged climate, in particular Benidorm, southern Europe's skyscraper capital, are famous beach tourism destinations. Country of fire, fireworks and long meals (often featuring the reno...
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St Petersburg
ISBN: PB: 9781909930490, Signal Books, May 2017
256 pp., 20.2x13.5 cm, colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! St Petersburg is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Most of its baroque and neoclassical palaces and churches are modelled on those of Italy and France, in turn inspired by the temples of classical Greek and Rome. Yet it...
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£9,99
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Storm Force How Britain Has Been Forged by the Wind
ISBN: HB: 9781909930377, Signal Books, February 2016
288 pp., 22.5x14.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Britain is the windiest country in Europe. The devastating storms of the winter of 2013-4 saw houses collapse into the sea in Norfolk and, on the other side of England, the loss to ferocious waves of a stretch of the main rail...
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Search for the Rarest Bird in the World
ISBN: HB: 9781909930315, Signal Books, October 2015
256 pp., 21.3x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the hills of the Great Rift Valley in the Gamo Gofa province in the country of Ethiopia. On that expedition, 315 species of birds w...
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Strange Necessity Visions of Portmeirion
ISBN: PB: 9781909930308, Signal Books, June 2015
142 pp., 21.6x21.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Portmeirion is one of the wonders of Wales. This colourful Italianate village, established on the Welsh coast by the extraordinary – and eccentric – self-taught architect, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, demonstrates the force of hi...
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Scottish Highlands A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930001, Signal Books, October 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Scottish Highlands" form the highest mountains in the British Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotl...
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£12,00
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Shackleton A Life in Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781909930100, Signal Books, October 2014
176 pp., 21.3x13.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. "Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces",...
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Smoking Kills The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll
ISBN: PB: 9781909930049, Signal Books, July 2014
351 pp., 21.5x14.3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis – and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young phys...
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Sicily A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493644, Signal Books, November 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. In ancient times it was the scene of conflicts between Ca...
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Sahara A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955825, Signal Books, June 2011
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and cam...
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