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Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781909930070, Signal Books, December 2014
225 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the "oxen ford" from which it takes its name. It became a centre for trade and religion and developed one of the oldest universities in Europe from the la...
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Into the Kazakh Steppe John Castle's Mission to Khan Abulkhayir (1736)
ISBN: PB: 9781909930087, Signal Books, December 2014
208 pp., 21.8x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! The adventurer and artist John Castle, of mixed British and Prussian descent, was one of several foreigners commissioned by the Russian Empire to take part in the Orenburg Expedition which started in 1734. Its aims were to secu...
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Frontline Madrid Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781909930094, Signal Books, November 2014
208 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...
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Brittany A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930063, Signal Books, November 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops and secretive forests. Evangelizing D...
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Scottish Highlands A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930001, Signal Books, October 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Scottish Highlands" form the highest mountains in the British Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotl...
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Shackleton A Life in Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781909930100, Signal Books, October 2014
176 pp., 21.3x13.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. "Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces",...
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That Mighty Heart Visions of London
ISBN: PB: 9781909930056, Signal Books, September 2014
144 pp., 21.6x21.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1802 William Wordsworth, the great Romantic poet, gazed over London and claimed "Earth has not anything to show more fair". Two centuries after his famous sonnet "Upon Westminster Bridge", "That Mighty Heart" offers a visual...
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£14,99
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Fortune Hunter A German Prince in Regency England
ISBN: PB: 9781909930032, Signal Books, August 2014
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off,...
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Smoking Kills The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll
ISBN: PB: 9781909930049, Signal Books, July 2014
351 pp., 21.5x14.3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis – and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young phys...
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Canary Islands A Cultural History
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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