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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates
As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...
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£24,00
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Budapest A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955269, Signal Books, October 2019
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series...
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£12,00
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Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing
Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Bauhaus Travel Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791382531, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
304 pp., 23x13.5 cm, 122 black&white illus.
A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the wor...
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£19,99
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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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Barcelona Sketching Lovers Companion
ISBN: HB: 9788416504121, Hoaki, November 2016
160 pp., 20x15 cm, fully illustrated in colour
Sometimes funny, sometimes elegant, always exquisitely drawn; this annotated travel journal, portraysFrench illustrator Lapin’s adopted home city of Barcelona. Lapin is a French illustrator, an artist, a French urban sketcher based in Barcelona. He c...
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£15,99
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Bodleianalia Curious Facts about Britain's Oldest University Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851242528, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
144 pp., 18.5x12 cm,
Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the library's catalogue? How many miles of shelving are there in the Book Storage Facility? What is the story behind the library's refusal t...
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£12,99
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Barcelona: Gaudi – La Pedrera
ISBN: PB: 9788416504145, Hoaki, May 2016
36 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm
An extra-large (30,5x21,6 cm) adult colouring poster by the artist Victor Escandell. Colour and dive into the details of one of the masterpieces of 20th century architecture, Casa MIla (also known as La Pedrera) by famous architect Gaudi in Barcelona...
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£4,99
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Barcelona: Gaudi – La Sagrada Familia
ISBN: PB: 9788416504138, Hoaki, May 2016
36 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm
An extra-large (30,5x21,6 cm) adult colouring poster by the artist Victor Escandell. Colour and dive into the details of the famous Temple of the Sagrada Familia's the masterpiece of Gaudi in Barcelona. Poster is folded, wrapped in cardboard with a s...
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£4,99
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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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