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Journey That Never Was Around the World in a Mini in the Early 1960s

de Ferranti Jeanne

ISBN: PB: 9781861513700, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, December 2014
380 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

To Jeanne de Ferranti's business-minded parents, it was dismissed as an irresponsible waste of time, and it quickly became "the journey that never was". It didn't enter the record books, and it was never reported in the press. But to Jeanne and her f...

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Oxford

Garrett Martin

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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Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and American Culture

Robinson Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214153, ISBN: HB: 9780226721842, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost the...

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Frontline Madrid Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War

Mathieson David

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

Mewes Wendy

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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Ancient Luang Prabang and Laos

Heywood Denise

ISBN: PB: 9786167339450, Prestel Publishing, River Books, October 2014
252 pp., 24.4x17 cm, illustrations throughout

The first edition of Ancient Luang Prabang was published in 2006, and a critically acclaimed revised edition appeared in 2008. This current edition is a substantially revised and updated work, with new sections added as well as additional photographs...

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Scottish Highlands A Cultural History

Beattie Andrew

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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Death Tourism Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape

Sion Brigitte

ISBN: PB: 9780857421074, Seagull Books, September 2014
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia's killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escap...

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That Mighty Heart Visions of London

Elinger John

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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Northern Exposures An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images

Waterman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231931, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
250 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 96 colour illus.

North of the sixtieth parallel parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this spec...

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