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Thames A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955276, Signal Books, October 2019
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation's past and present, or are suggestive of its future, as England's River Thames. Tales of legendary lock-keepe...
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Budapest A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955269, Signal Books, October 2019
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series...
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£12,00
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Lima A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669984, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
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...
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Flanders A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955283, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Famous for its cemeteries and monuments, Flanders has witnessed war and bloodshed on a colossal scale. Divided between Belgium, the Netherlands and France, this low-lying expanse of land has also known religious conflict and li...
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Tokyo A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955511, Signal Books, April 2016
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated...
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£12,00
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Storm Force How Britain Has Been Forged by the Wind
ISBN: HB: 9781909930377, Signal Books, February 2016
288 pp., 22.5x14.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Britain is the windiest country in Europe. The devastating storms of the winter of 2013-4 saw houses collapse into the sea in Norfolk and, on the other side of England, the loss to ferocious waves of a stretch of the main rail...
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£14,99
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Bali A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930179, Signal Books, August 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Bali is unlike anywhere else. Despite the advent of international tourism, this Indonesian island remains an untarnished cultural gem set in an idyllic landscape. Spirit-haunted as is the rest of Southeast Asia, Bali boasts a u...
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£12,00
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Cotswolds A Cultural History
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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£12,00
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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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£12,00
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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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