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Wake of the Unseen Object Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes
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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£18,00
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Wanderer
ISBN: PB: 9781734618112, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2020
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 116 halftones
In The Wanderer, Carole J. Garrison fulfills her bucket list by meeting with the people who fascinate her and the places that lead her to them. Through her journeys, she explores the unexpected human connections that transform the experience of trave...
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£14,00
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World Heritage Japan
ISBN: PB: 9786164510111, Prestel Publishing, River Books, February 2020
232 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 184 colour and black&white illus.
Author and photographer John Lander takes the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage sites of Japan as a starting point for exploring the country's architecture, history, customer and festivals. Lander, who has lived in Japan for 35 years, travelled to al...
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£29,95
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Wartime Notebooks France, 1940-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300176711, Yale University Press, November 2018
704 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress. When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied Fr...
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£25,00
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White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300221794, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy,...
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£32,50
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Writing Abroad A Guide for Travelers
ISBN: PB: 9780226444499, ISBN: HB: 9780226444352, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Tell me all about your trip!" It's a request that follows travelers as they head out into the world, and one of the first things they hear when they return. When we leave our homes to explore the wider world, we feel compelled to capture the experie...
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£17,00
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£50,50
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Wonders of Florence Pop-Up
ISBN: HB: 9788831719216, DAP, Marsilio Editori, March 2015
12 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts....
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£20,00
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Walking Palestine 25 Journeys into the West Bank
ISBN: PB: 9781908493613, Signal Books, April 2012
288 pp., 21.6x15.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! With the images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is the one activity probably least associated with the West Bank region. But Stefan Szepesi s book wanders well off the beaten tr...
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£19,99
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Walking the Hexagon An Escape around France on Foot
ISBN: PB: 9781908493033, Signal Books, April 2012
288 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Why would a man retire from his job and take off on a unique 4,000-mile walk around France? What possessed him to wear out his sixty-year-old hips and knees when he could spend a comfortable retirement at home? In this fascinat...
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£12,99
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West Country A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955610, Signal Books, May 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and ha...
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£12,00
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