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Oxford Boy A Post-War Townie Childhood
ISBN: PB: 9781909930643, Signal Books, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is one boy's tale of growing up in Oxford in the forties and fifties. It is a foreign land of being caned on hand and bottom, of teachers washing out a child's mouth with soap as punishment for swearing. It was a time of c...
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£12,99
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On the Trail A History of American Hiking
ISBN: HB: 9780300219111, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 26 black&white illus.
The first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails In the mid-nineteenth century urban walking clubs emerged in the United States. A little more than a century later, tens of millions of Am...
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£25,00
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Out West An Englishman's Travels through the American West
ISBN: HB: 9781909930384, Signal Books, March 2016
384 pp., 22.5x14.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details... For example, when, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a Britis...
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£14,99
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Oxford Examined Town & Clown
ISBN: PB: 9781909930353, Signal Books, November 2015
214 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected her...
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£7,99
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Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781909930070, Signal Books, December 2014
225 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the "oxen ford" from which it takes its name. It became a centre for trade and religion and developed one of the oldest universities in Europe from the la...
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£9,99
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Out of Essex Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781908493798, Signal Books, January 2013
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Beyond the brash modern stereotypes of Essex there exists a landscape that has inspired some of England's finest writing. This book tracks the paths of those literary figures who have ventured into the wilder parts of Essex. So...
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£12,99
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Oxford Past Times The Changing Face of City and County
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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£12,00
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Our Man in Paris A Foreign Correspondent, France and the French
ISBN: PB: 9781904955733, Signal Books, November 2010
288 pp., 21.8x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independent 's correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular 'Our Man in Paris' series consists of essays on a...
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£12,99
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Other Routes 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
ISBN: PB: 9781904955122, Signal Books, January 2006
432 pp., 19.6x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The collection includes pilgrimage accounts, which describe a 'national' circuit (as in Lady Nijo's, c. 1280, or Sei Shonagon's, c. 990, accounts) or move across vast regions to places of learning and pilgrimage or to a particu...
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£14,99
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Old Provence
ISBN: PB: 9781902669199, Signal Books, April 2001
384 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Deep as we may bury the Roman Empire, we cannot hide it in the valley of the Rhone; for its bones pierce through Provensal soil in many places as though that giant grave were still too narrow for the skeleton of a past that ca...
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£12,99
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