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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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My Backyard Jungle The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It

Barilla James

ISBN: PB: 9780300205664, ISBN: HB: 9780300184013, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries....

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Prague

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781908493637, Signal Books, November 2012
224 pp., 19.8x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart s...

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Isle Of Wight, Portsmouth and Solent A Cultural History

Bardell Mark

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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Peak District A Cultural History

Bull John

ISBN: PB: 9781908493064, Signal Books, May 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...

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Danube A Cultural History

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781904955665, Signal Books, August 2010
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany's Black Forest, it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital cities before emptying into t...

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Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-1959

Bull Colin

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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History of Art

Buddhist Art An Historical and Cultural Journey

Beguin Giles

ISBN: HB: 9789749863879, Prestel Publishing, River Books, October 2009
400 pp., 32.2x25.1 cm, colour photos

Buddhism and its art is the one truly unifying factor of the entire Asian continent and has become a fundamental part of our shared world heritage. To draw a unique portrait of this art in a single work is a formidable undertaking due to the great pl...

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Iceland Its Scenes and Sagas

Baring-Gould Sabine

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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Moscow A Cultural and Literary History

Brooke Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9781904955221, Signal Books, August 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! From its origins as a twelfth-century hilltop fortress or kremlin at the confluence of two rivers, Moscow has grown to become a vast city of over eleven million inhabitants. After suffering the ignominy of losing its capital ci...

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