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Dickens on France Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing
ISBN: HB: 9781904955061, Signal Books, October 2006
450 pp., 22x14.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris". This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affin...
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£16,99
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Articles of Faith Graham Greene's Collected Tablet Journalism, 1936-19
ISBN: HB: 9781904955160, Signal Books, October 2006
164 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! When Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a great Catholic writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted discomfiting themes with a sombre eye. The British Catholic journa...
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£12,99
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Provence A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955238, Signal Books, September 2006
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces a...
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£12,00
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London A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955214, Signal Books, August 2006
288 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! London's influence reaches across the globe. As a port, capital, imperial centre and wartime bastion, it has played an unparalleled part in history. Its contribution to music, fashion and taste knows no boundaries. As the home...
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£12,00
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Moscow A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955221, Signal Books, August 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its origins as a twelfth-century hilltop fortress or kremlin at the confluence of two rivers, Moscow has grown to become a vast city of over eleven million inhabitants. After suffering the ignominy of losing its capital ci...
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£12,00
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Romancing Vietnam Inside the Boat Country
ISBN: PB: 9781904955153, Signal Books, July 2006
440 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! When the Vietnam War finally ended in April 1975 with the communist capture of Saigon, Vietnam itself became a closed country, out of bounds to western travellers and journalists. By 1989, however, such was Vietnam's economic p...
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£12,99
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Alps A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955245, Signal Books, June 2006
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range; their broad arc stretches right across the centre of the continent, encompassing a wide range of traditions and cultures. In former times the mountains were feared as the realm of w...
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£12,00
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New Orleans A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955023, Signal Books, April 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississipp...
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£12,00
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Rome A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955085, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Rome, the "Eternal City", has provided endless inspiration for religious thinkers, poets, artists and philosophers. As the first urban space to boast over a million inhabitants, its ancient glories endure, reflecting the Roman...
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£12,00
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Kyoto A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955139, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains...
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£12,00
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