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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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Catalonia A Cultural history
ISBN: PB: 9781904955320, Signal Books, August 2007
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to th...
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Zagreb A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955306, Signal Books, August 2007
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Situated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Hab...
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In the Footsteps of George Borrow A Journey Through Spain and Portugal
ISBN: HB: 9781904955375, Signal Books, June 2007
320 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! George Borrow – brilliant linguist, expert on gypsy culture and author of "Wild Wales" (1862) – remains an enigmatic character whose fiction and travel writing mix autobiography and invention. From 1835 to 1840, he worked as an...
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£14,99
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Cuba with Pen and Pencil
ISBN: PB: 9781904955207, Signal Books, May 2007
400 pp., 21.7x14.5 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! In 1866, worn out by fighting in the American Civil War, the writer Samuel Hazard arrived in Cuba to begin work on a guidebook to the island. Over a period of several months, as his health recovered, he travelled throughout wha...
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£12,99
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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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Iceland Its Scenes and Sagas
ISBN: PB: 9781902669892, Signal Books, March 2007
440 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Aged twenty-eight, Sabine Baring-Gould, the young writer and teacher, was fascinated by the tradition of the Icelandic sagas, and this was the catalyst for his adventure and the book that emerged from it. His voyage took him fr...
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Hongkong A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955252, Signal Books, February 2007
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hong Kong is the epitome of the modern city and a crossroads between eastern and western cultures. Today the city is most famously characterized by its breathtaking skyscraper skyline, dominating its so-called "fragrant" harbou...
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