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Wake of the Unseen Object Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes

Kizzia Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602234307, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 map

A series of journeys to Alaska's remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup'ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely conte...

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St Petersburg

Kent Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781909930490, Signal Books, May 2017
256 pp., 20.2x13.5 cm, colour illus.

For sale in CIS only! St Petersburg is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Most of its baroque and neoclassical palaces and churches are modelled on those of Italy and France, in turn inspired by the temples of classical Greek and Rome. Yet it...

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Architecture

Design

Bauhaus Travel Book

Kern Ingolf, Knorr Susanne, Welzbacher Christian

ISBN: HB: 9783791382531, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
304 pp., 23x13.5 cm, 122 black&white illus.

A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the wor...

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Alaska on the Go Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602233157, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps

Every year, nearly two million tourists visit Alaska, and at least half of them spend time exploring the state's waterways. For families that want to do so in a more independent fashion than a cruise ship or guided tour would allow, Erin Kirkland has...

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Biography & Memoires

Travel

Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens Reportage

Krasznahorkai Laszlo

ISBN: PB: 9780857425331, ISBN: HB: 9780857423115, Seagull Books, March 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the daw...

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Travels into Print Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

Keighren Innes M., Withers Charles W. J., Bell Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780226429533, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 25 halftones, 1 table

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry – products of the complex, and often contested, relat...

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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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Alaska on the Go Exploring the 49th State with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232211, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Nearly two million people visit Alaska every year, drawn to its spectacular views and endless activities. But with such size and so many options, it can seem overwhelming when it comes to planning a family vacation to the 49th state. The best place t...

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Europe

Travel

Oxford Past Times The Changing Face of City and County

Koenig Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781908493651, Signal Books, November 2012
288 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 70 black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! For more than ten years Chris Koenig's "Past Times" column has been a regular favourite in the Oxford Times , bringing to life unexpected and sometimes unusual aspects of the city and county's history. Ranging over Oxford and i...

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Anthropology

Travel

Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans

Kari James

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...

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