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Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners
ISBN: HB: 9781851245307, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x17.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. In the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, shipping companies ensure...
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£25,00
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Sails & Winds A Cultural History of Valencia
ISBN: PB: 9781909930759, Signal Books, April 2019
388 pp., 21x15 cm
For sale in CIS only! The towns of Valencia's long coast and privileged climate, in particular Benidorm, southern Europe's skyscraper capital, are famous beach tourism destinations. Country of fire, fireworks and long meals (often featuring the reno...
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£14,99
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St Petersburg
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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£9,99
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Sansovino's Venice
ISBN: HB: 9780300175066, Yale University Press, April 2017
392 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 60 colour illus., 90 black&white illus.
This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was w...
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£25,00
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Strange Necessity Visions of Portmeirion
ISBN: PB: 9781909930308, Signal Books, June 2015
142 pp., 21.6x21.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Portmeirion is one of the wonders of Wales. This colourful Italianate village, established on the Welsh coast by the extraordinary – and eccentric – self-taught architect, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, demonstrates the force of hi...
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£14,99
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Siena City of Secrets
ISBN: HB: 9780226207827, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 colour plates, 3 halftones, 3 maps
Jane Tylus's "Siena" is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through...
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£19,50
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Scottish Highlands A Cultural History
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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£12,00
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Sicily A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493644, Signal Books, November 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. In ancient times it was the scene of conflicts between Ca...
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£12,00
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Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions
ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...
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£30,00
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Sahara A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955825, Signal Books, June 2011
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and cam...
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£12,00
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