For sale in CIS only! At the age of five Duleep Singh became the last Maharajah of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. He was still a child when the British annexed the Punjab in 1849 and forced him to sign a punitive treaty. He was made to give up his...

For sale in CIS only! Formerly the viceregal capital of Spain's vast South American empire, Lima is today a sprawling metropolis struggling to cope with a population of eight million. Located on the coast between the Andean foothills and the Pacific...

For sale in CIS only! Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conqu...

For sale in CIS only! In few countries are concepts of race and colour as important or controversial as in the Dominican Republic. Sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, the country has coexisted uneasily with its predominantly Afric...

For sale in CIS only! Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent's south-west rim. Barry...

For sale in CIS only! In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the hills of the Great Rift Valley in the Gamo Gofa province in the country of Ethiopia. On that expedition, 315 species of birds w...

For sale in CIS only! Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a l...

For sale in CIS only! We all have our image of the French Riviera: the azure blue of the sea and the swimming pools; the dark green of the pines and the swaying palms; the yachts and the sports cars on the Corniche roads; the hovering croupiers raki...

For sale in CIS only! Few regions of the world have captured the Western imagination as powerfully as the Balkan peninsula. For centuries its social crises and cultural traditions have appalled and enthralled diplomats, journalists, novelists and tr...

For sale in CIS only! How on earth did an English pub team end up playing cricket on a remote Croatian island?What linked their booze-fuelled exploits to the British legacy of the Second World War and the Napoleonic era?This book tells the story of...