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Dolce far niente in Arabia Georg August Wallin and His Travels in the 1840s
ISBN: PB: 9788763543040, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2015
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 14 colour plates, 1 halftone, 7 maps
In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects. Considered an eminent scholar by his contemporaries, he died an untimely death shortly after his seven-year journey...
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£23,50
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Oxford Examined Town & Clown
ISBN: PB: 9781909930353, Signal Books, November 2015
214 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected her...
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£7,99
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First Overland London-Singapore by Land Rover
ISBN: PB: 9781909930360, Signal Books, October 2015
256 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried i...
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£9,99
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Cowley Road Cookbook Culinary Tales and Recipes from Oxford's Most Eclectic Street
ISBN: PB: 9781909930322, Signal Books, October 2015
128 pp., 21.1x21.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Cowley Road, Oxford, is a wonderfully chaotic, cultural and culinary crossroads. Geographically adjacent to the university's dreaming spires, ethnographically it might as well be on another planet. From its holy medieval origin...
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£14,99
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Dead Ladies Project Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
ISBN: PB: 9780226278452, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understa...
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£12,00
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Frankfurt
ISBN: PB: 9781909930186, Signal Books, September 2015
224 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size – it has fewer than a million inhabitants – it is a financial centre of global importance, named alongside metropolises and capitals such as To...
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£9,99
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Bali A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930179, Signal Books, August 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Bali is unlike anywhere else. Despite the advent of international tourism, this Indonesian island remains an untarnished cultural gem set in an idyllic landscape. Spirit-haunted as is the rest of Southeast Asia, Bali boasts a u...
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£12,00
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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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Strange Necessity Visions of Portmeirion
ISBN: PB: 9781909930308, Signal Books, June 2015
142 pp., 21.6x21.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Portmeirion is one of the wonders of Wales. This colourful Italianate village, established on the Welsh coast by the extraordinary – and eccentric – self-taught architect, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, demonstrates the force of hi...
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£14,99
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Latin Inscriptions in Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781851244300, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2015
104 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
For the first six centuries from the institution's foundation, Latin was the language spoken and written at the University of Oxford. It's no surprise, then, to find that the inscriptions carved into the monuments, colleges and municipal buildings of...
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£9,99
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