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Cold Latitudes

McGuire Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9781602234376, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2021
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From s...

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Calm Fire and Other Travel Writings

Jaccottet Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780857425980, Seagull Books, September 2019
312 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be in short supply. However, the lyrical and philosophi...

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Cartography

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Captain Cook and the Pacific Art, Exploration and Empire

McAleer John, Rigby Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9780300207248, Yale University Press, September 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...

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Cowley Road A History

Skinner Annie

ISBN: PB: 9781904955108, Signal Books, February 2017
164 pp., 20x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! Once a "respectable" white working-class suburb, Cowley Road is today the heartland of alternative Oxford. Famous for its restaurants and specialist shops, the street has also developed an enviable reputation for its music and...

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Chicago in Quotations

Shea Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781851244119, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm

"I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages", so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city',...

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Crossing the Congo Over Land and Water in a Hard Place

Martin Mike, Baker Chloe, Hatch-Barnwell Charlie

ISBN: HB: 9781849046855, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan. Traversing 2,5...

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Cultural Studies

Cowley Road Cookbook Culinary Tales and Recipes from Oxford's Most Eclectic Street

Stott Martin

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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Culture Studies

Cotswolds A Cultural History

Bingham Jane

ISBN: PB: 9781909930223, Signal Books, March 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Cotswolds have featured on a thousand country calendars, but what is the real story behind the picture-perfect rural scene? Jane Bingham reveals a history of privilege and poverty, idyll and conflict, through the eyes of tr...

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Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and American Culture

Robinson Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214153, ISBN: HB: 9780226721842, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost the...

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Canary Islands A Cultural History

Stone Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781908493996, Signal Books, July 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial sprin...

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