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Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel
ISBN: HB: 9780226774671, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
264 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 83 halftones
Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explor...
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£19,00
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Treasures of Venice Pop-Up
ISBN: HB: 9788831715027, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2013
12 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Discovering the city through the magic of pop-ups. The marvels of Venice, a magical city suspended like a dream between water and sky... For children, Venice is a Wunderkammer in the literal sense of the term, full of surpr...
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£20,00
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Keeping the Barbarians at Bay The Last Years of Kenneth Allsop, Green Pioneer
ISBN: PB: 9781908493842, Signal Books, September 2013
208 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm
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...
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£12,99
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Reykjavik
ISBN: PB: 9781908493828, Signal Books, September 2013
256 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm
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...
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£9,99
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Miami A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493743, Signal Books, July 2013
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
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...
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£12,00
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Umbria A Cultural Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781908493859, Signal Books, July 2013
504 pp., 21x15.2 cm
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...
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£14,99
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Long Walk with Lord Conway An Exploration of the Alps and an English Adventurer
ISBN: HB: 9781908493804, Signal Books, June 2013
320 pp., 22.2x14.2 cm
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...
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£16,99
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Cruel Way Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
ISBN: PB: 9780226033044, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 2 maps, 13 halftones
In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan's Northern Road, Ma...
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£13,50
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Germany: Beyond the Enchanted Forest A Literary Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781908493774, Signal Books, May 2013
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
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...
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£12,99
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That Sweet City Visions of Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781908493781, Signal Books, May 2013
144 pp., 21.6x21.6 cm
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...
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£12,99
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