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Vienna A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955450, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Au...
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Andalucia A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955443, Signal Books, August 2008
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andalucia has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilizations for more than ten thousand years...
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Patagonia A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955382, Signal Books, July 2008
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encomp...
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Bangkok A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955399, Signal Books, March 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Bangkok stands out as a place of extraordinary allure. Beginning as a floating city in a lush tropical setting, known to foreigners as the "Venice of the East", centuries later, its majestic Grand Palace and glittering Buddhist...
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Phnom Penh A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955405, Signal Books, January 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's permanent capital in 1866. Long neglected by Western travellers, in the sixteenth century it was home to Iberian missionaries and fre...
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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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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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Horse How the Horse has Changed Civilizations
ISBN: PB: 9781904955368, Signal Books, May 2007
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Full of wisdom, passion and wonder, Horse is the utterly fascinating and enlightening story of horses and humans from the beginning of time to the present.Ever since the dawn of human history, horses have held a mystical sway o...
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