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Poetry and Thinking of the Chagga Contributions to East African Ethnology
ISBN: HB: 9781909930445, Signal Books, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Bruno Gutmann (1876-1966) was a German Lutheran missionary. In 1902 he went to Chaggaland on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Deutsch-Ostafrika (now Tanzania) and stayed with brief interruptions for 36 years. Owing to his "inte...
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£15,99
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Pilgrimage to Santiago
ISBN: PB: 9781902669311, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Long Road to Heaven", the annual pilgrimage to the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela has taken place for over a thousand years. In the great cathedral of Santiago are said to lie the bones of St. James of the Great,...
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£9,99
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Portuguese A Portrait of a People
ISBN: PB: 9781904955771, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 21.4x14.1 cm, black&white illus.
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...
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£12,99
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Peter Levi Oxford Romantic
ISBN: HB: 9781908493989, Signal Books, July 2014
452 pp., 22.3x14.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Peter Levi (1931-2000) was one of the most romantic and complicated of twentieth-century Oxford characters. Although descended on his father's side from Jewish carpet-merchants in Constantinople, he was brought up a Catholic an...
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£19,99
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Prague
ISBN: PB: 9781908493637, Signal Books, November 2012
224 pp., 19.8x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart s...
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£9,99
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Peak District A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493064, Signal Books, May 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...
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£12,00
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Patagonia A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955382, Signal Books, July 2008
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encomp...
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£12,00
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Phnom Penh A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955405, Signal Books, January 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's permanent capital in 1866. Long neglected by Western travellers, in the sixteenth century it was home to Iberian missionaries and fre...
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£12,00
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Paradise Divided A Portrait of Lebanon
ISBN: PB: 9781904955351, Signal Books, April 2007
320 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! This timely portrait of Lebanon exposes the fault lines that underlie the current crisis in the Middle East, and charts the country's attempts to rebuild a fragile peace after its long civil war and recent conflict with Israel....
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£12,99
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Provence A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955238, Signal Books, September 2006
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces a...
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