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Eleanor Crosses The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781909930650, Signal Books, May 2018
196 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Eleanor Crosses" begins in November 1290 with the untimely death in a Lincolnshire village of Queen Eleanor of Castile, beloved consort of King Edward I of England. A sombre journey of more than 200 miles must follow, to t...
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Oxford Boy A Post-War Townie Childhood
ISBN: PB: 9781909930643, Signal Books, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is one boy's tale of growing up in Oxford in the forties and fifties. It is a foreign land of being caned on hand and bottom, of teachers washing out a child's mouth with soap as punishment for swearing. It was a time of c...
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£12,99
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Tripoli A History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930193, Signal Books, February 2015
288 pp., 20.5x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! It has been called a "Noble Possession", abused as "A Nest of Corsairs" and extolled as "The Pearl of the Mediterranean". This city of Tripoli, one of the oldest on both the Mediterranean and the fringes of the Sahara, and neve...
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£14,99
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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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Lagos A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493057, Signal Books, October 2012
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Made up of a curious network of islands and lagoons, Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world The unique melting pot culture of Lagos has produced literary and artistic achievements that are only just beginning t...
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£12,00
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Andes A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955542, Signal Books, July 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone te...
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£12,00
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Buenos Aires A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955092, Signal Books, November 2007
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The ci...
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£12,00
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Basque Country A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955313, Signal Books, August 2007
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe's oldest people and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic post-mo...
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£12,00
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Romancing Vietnam Inside the Boat Country
ISBN: PB: 9781904955153, Signal Books, July 2006
440 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! When the Vietnam War finally ended in April 1975 with the communist capture of Saigon, Vietnam itself became a closed country, out of bounds to western travellers and journalists. By 1989, however, such was Vietnam's economic p...
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