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Finding True North First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Build Modern Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234437, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Melting sea ice and simmering volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig got a job at the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner following journalism school. An environmentalist at heart,...
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£18,00
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Four Roads to Heaven France and the Santiago Pilgrimage
ISBN: PB: 9781909930506, Signal Books, April 2017
256 pp., 20.2x13.5 cm, 24 colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! "There are four roads leading to Santiago, which combine to form a single road". So begins "The Pilgrim's Guide", the world's first guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, it served travellers tak...
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£14,99
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Flanders A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955283, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Famous for its cemeteries and monuments, Flanders has witnessed war and bloodshed on a colossal scale. Divided between Belgium, the Netherlands and France, this low-lying expanse of land has also known religious conflict and li...
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£12,00
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First Overland London-Singapore by Land Rover
ISBN: PB: 9781909930360, Signal Books, October 2015
256 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried i...
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£9,99
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Frankfurt
ISBN: PB: 9781909930186, Signal Books, September 2015
224 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size – it has fewer than a million inhabitants – it is a financial centre of global importance, named alongside metropolises and capitals such as To...
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£9,99
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Florence A Walking Guide to its Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9780300209877, Yale University Press, July 2015
480 pp., 21.6x12 cm, 100 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this famous Renaissance city. In this compact yet comprehensive volume, architect and architectural historian Richard J. Goy offers a convenient, accessible gui...
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£20,00
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Frontline Madrid Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781909930094, Signal Books, November 2014
208 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...
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£9,99
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Finding the Arctic History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay
ISBN: PB: 9781602231634, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 maps, 193 colour illus.
The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In "Finding the Arctic", the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects...
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£19,00
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Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave
ISBN: HB: 9780226301310, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 1 map, 12 halftones
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walke...
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£18,00
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French Riviera A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955580, Signal Books, June 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! We all have our image of the French Riviera: the azure blue of the sea and the swimming pools; the dark green of the pines and the swaying palms; the yachts and the sports cars on the Corniche roads; the hovering croupiers raki...
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£12,00
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