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Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier Riding the Pioneer Trail
ISBN: HB: 9781909930391, Signal Books, March 2016
240 pp., 23.8x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! Patagonia is one of the "final frontiers" on our planet: remote, untamed and much of it inaccessible except on horseback. Though travelled before and sporadically settled, it remains remarkably resistant to human trampling. Div...
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£16,99
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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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£14,99
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Cotswolds A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930223, Signal Books, March 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Cotswolds have featured on a thousand country calendars, but what is the real story behind the picture-perfect rural scene? Jane Bingham reveals a history of privilege and poverty, idyll and conflict, through the eyes of tr...
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£12,00
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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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Fortune Hunter A German Prince in Regency England
ISBN: PB: 9781909930032, Signal Books, August 2014
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off,...
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£12,99
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Prague
ISBN: PB: 9781908493637, Signal Books, November 2012
224 pp., 19.8x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart s...
PB:
£9,99
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Isle Of Wight, Portsmouth and Solent A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493071, Signal Books, July 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own loc...
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£12,00
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Peak District A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493064, Signal Books, May 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...
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£12,00
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Danube A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955665, Signal Books, August 2010
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany's Black Forest, it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital cities before emptying into t...
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£12,00
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Urban Vodou Politics and Popular Street Art in Haiti
ISBN: PB: 9781904955603, Signal Books, June 2010
192 pp., 27.3x21 cm, colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! From 1986 to 1994 the Caribbean nation of Haiti experienced a series of dramatic events: the overthrow of 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, the violent disruption of voting, the overwhelming electoral victory of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a co...
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£14,99
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