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Renaissance Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...
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£23,00
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Realm of the Punisher Travels in Duterte's Philippines
ISBN: PB: 9781909930728, Signal Books, November 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election by a landslide. Infamous for his bombastic temper and un-PC wisecracks, he is waging a brutal drug war that has killed more than 12,000 people so far. Over...
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£12,99
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Rome: The Eternal Beauty Pop-Up
ISBN: HB: 9788831726733, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2018
12 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The first pop-up book on Rome, a 3D guide for children and adults with evocative images and texts that stimulate the reader's curiosity. Rome presented through the spectacular paper architecture of Dario Cestaro, in a pop-u...
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£20,00
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River Effra South London's Secret Spine
ISBN: PB: 9781909930421, Signal Books, November 2016
146 pp., 21.9x16.5 cm, 8 colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River...
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£9,99
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Rising Ground A Search for the Spirit of Place
ISBN: HB: 9780226366098, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 21.6x14.6 cm, 21 halftones
In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called "one of our most thoughtful travel writers", moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself fascinated by the landsca...
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£20,50
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Reykjavik
ISBN: PB: 9781908493828, Signal Books, September 2013
256 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Founded by Viking adventurers around AD 870, Reykjavik, the most northerly capital city in the world, is paradoxically a young city. Though it is home to the Althing, one of the oldest existing democratic institutions in the wo...
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£9,99
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Roman Provence A History and Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781904955917, Signal Books, July 2011
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Roman occupation of Provence lasted six centuries, beginning more than one hundred years before the birth of Christ, and surviving until well after most of Europe had become Christian. Today the region remains richer in Rom...
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£12,99
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Russian Frontiers Eighteenth-Century British Travellers in the Caspian, Caucasus and Central Asia
ISBN: PB: 9781904955801, Signal Books, May 2011
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The vast and expanding Russian empire of the eighteenth century was inhabited by a great number of peoples. This book, part anthology, part commentary, is the first of its kind to bring together British travellers' accounts of...
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£14,99
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Romancing Vietnam Inside the Boat Country
ISBN: PB: 9781904955153, Signal Books, July 2006
440 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! When the Vietnam War finally ended in April 1975 with the communist capture of Saigon, Vietnam itself became a closed country, out of bounds to western travellers and journalists. By 1989, however, such was Vietnam's economic p...
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£12,99
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Rome A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955085, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Rome, the "Eternal City", has provided endless inspiration for religious thinkers, poets, artists and philosophers. As the first urban space to boast over a million inhabitants, its ancient glories endure, reflecting the Roman...
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£12,00
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