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For sale in CIS only! Kenneth Allsop was a writer, journalist and broadcaster who in the 1960s and early 70s became one of Britain's first television celebrities. Voted the "fifth most handsome man in the world", he enjoyed the high life of fast car...

For sale in CIS only! Founded by Viking adventurers around AD 870, Reykjavik, the most northerly capital city in the world, is paradoxically a young city. Though it is home to the Althing, one of the oldest existing democratic institutions in the wo...

For sale in CIS only! Miami, or "Sweet Water" in the Creek Indian language, is one of the newest cities in the United States. While northern Florida was fought over by European powers and finally taken by the Americans as part of the slave-worked pl...

For sale in CIS only! Umbria, "the Green Heart of Italy", is a fascinating region of Etruscan and Roman monuments, medieval castles and cathedrals, and the Renaissance art of Giotto, Perugino and the young Raphael. Everywhere, vibrant cities, evocat...

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...

For sale in CIS only! "German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour", wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany during the First World War. When, he asked, had the bristling general replaced the 'philosophers and composer...

For sale in CIS only! The most thrilling and controversial cricketer of his generation, Brian Lara is a hero to millions worldwide. A naturally attacking style and limitless scoring arc, allied to phenomenal mental and physical stamina, proved a rec...

For sale in CIS only! In 1865 the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold rejoiced in the charm of Oxford, "that sweet City with her dreaming spires". A century and a half later, "That Sweet City" offers a visual and poetic tribute to what is still one of the...

For sale in CIS only! "Dear me! It is a strange world. Particularly the Indian division of it". In 1895/6 the sixty-year-old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which a...