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Wanderer
ISBN: PB: 9781734618112, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2020
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 116 halftones
In The Wanderer, Carole J. Garrison fulfills her bucket list by meeting with the people who fascinate her and the places that lead her to them. Through her journeys, she explores the unexpected human connections that transform the experience of trave...
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£14,00
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Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary
ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...
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£34,00
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Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club And Other Unlikely Travel Tales
ISBN: PB: 9781909930544, Signal Books, October 2017
154 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! In "Alaskan Lonely Hearts Club" one of the UK's best-known travel writers shares his life on the road in 26 A-Z stories recording his very particular engagement with some highly eccentric characters. An eclectic range of destin...
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£9,99
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By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
ISBN: PB: 9781902669670, Signal Books, February 2017
224 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1897 the Victorian novelist George Gissing undertook a brief but eventful journey in southern Italy. His itinerary took him from Naples to Reggio di Calabria, via Paola, Cosenza, Crotone and Squillace, through the area once...
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£12,99
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Florence A Walking Guide to its Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9780300209877, Yale University Press, July 2015
480 pp., 21.6x12 cm, 100 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this famous Renaissance city. In this compact yet comprehensive volume, architect and architectural historian Richard J. Goy offers a convenient, accessible gui...
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£20,00
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Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781909930070, Signal Books, December 2014
225 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the "oxen ford" from which it takes its name. It became a centre for trade and religion and developed one of the oldest universities in Europe from the la...
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£9,99
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Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave
ISBN: HB: 9780226301310, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 1 map, 12 halftones
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walke...
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£18,00
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Athens
ISBN: PB: 9781904955832, Signal Books, November 2011
224 pp., 20.5x13.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date its first settlement to over seven thousand years ago, yet it only became the capital of Greece in 1834. During the intervening centuries it was occupied by almost every mobile...
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£9,99
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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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£12,00
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Travels in Blood and Honey Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo
ISBN: PB: 9781904955900, Signal Books, April 2011
256 pp., 21.3x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to the newest country in the world a land of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of honey. Elizabeth Gowing i...
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£12,99
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