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Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones
Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...
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£17,00
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All the Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey
ISBN: PB: 9780857428226, Seagull Books, March 2021
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by wha...
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£9,99
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Arts of Dying Literature and Finitude in Medieval England
ISBN: PB: 9780226640990, ISBN: HB: 9780226640853, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory – but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates
"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...
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£25,00
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All the Land
ISBN: HB: 9780857426062, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In "All the Land", Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegene...
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£19,99
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Astrid Lindgren The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
ISBN: HB: 9780300226102, Yale University Press, April 2018
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.
The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgre...
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£25,00
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Alice in Space The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
ISBN: PB: 9780226564692, ISBN: HB: 9780226041506, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass", Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 186...
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£28,00
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Arthritic Grasshopper Collected Stories, 1934-1944
ISBN: PB: 9781939663221, DAP, Wakefield Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the "new Alice"), Gisele Prassinos quickly found herself established in the literary world as a fount of automatic tales frei...
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Aftermath of War
ISBN: PB: 9780857424471, ISBN: HB: 9781905422883, Seagull Books, February 2017
368 pp., 20.4x13.2 cm
"The Aftermath of War" brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contempora...
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£14,99
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£14,50
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Art of Survival France and the Great War Picaresque
ISBN: HB: 9780300217513, Yale University Press, November 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the...
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