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Indian Equator Mark Twain's India Revisited
ISBN: PB: 9781908493750, Signal Books, February 2013
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Dear me! It is a strange world. Particularly the Indian division of it". In 1895/6 the sixty-year-old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which a...
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£9,99
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Isle Of Wight, Portsmouth and Solent A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493071, Signal Books, July 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own loc...
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£12,00
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Istanbul A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955764, Signal Books, September 2010
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is today a vibrant commercial and artistic city, t...
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£12,00
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Ionian Islands and Epirus A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955658, Signal Books, March 2010
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Scattered off the west coast of mainland Greece are the seven Ionian Islands, celebrated for their spectacular landscapes, olive groves and classical associations. Together with the mountainous mainland region of Epirus, the co...
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£12,00
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Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-1959
ISBN: PB: 9781602230712, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
267 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 2 graphs, 81 colour illus.
In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first of what has become...
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£19,00
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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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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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£12,99
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In Search of Cluny God's Lost Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781904955047, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! A thousand years ago the French abbey of Cluny was the hub of one of the most powerful empires of the Middle Ages, and the spiritual heart of Europe. Nearly 1,500 religious houses were subject to its authority, and it was the s...
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£16,99
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