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Orientalist, the (Exp)

Orientalist, the (Exp)

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An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world. he Orientalist is the extraordinary story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world...
Hillary's Antarctica: Adventure, Exploration and Establishing Scott

Hillary's Antarctica: Adventure, Exploration and Establishing Scott

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Written by Nigel Watson of the Antarctic Heritage Trust, and illustrated with Jane Ussher's stunning photographs, historic images and never-before-seen ephemera, this is the first book to fully document and...
The Olive Tree of Provence

The Olive Tree of Provence

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THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that...
American Voyage

American Voyage

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Beautiful portrait of America in the 1960s, rediscovered after 50 years. In 1966, Mario Carnicelli won first place in an Italian national photography competition sponsored by Popular Photography magazine and...
Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times

Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times

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On the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017, The Faraway Nearby presents a century of Canadian history through photographs. The book will take readers on a visual journey through...
Right To The Edge: Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means: The Road to the End

Right To The Edge: Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means: The Road to the End

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Charley Boorman is back in the saddle for a brand-new, adrenaline-fuelled adventure! He begins his journey racing north from Sydney up the Gold Coast, where he hitches a ride in...
Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair

Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair

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A book that tells the story of London since the Thirties through the 26 streets and stations of the Monopoly board. Acclaimed comic writer Tim Moore travels through the best...
The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. III: Istanbul

The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. III: Istanbul

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Under the Ottomans, who ruled the eastern Mediterranean for 500 years, cosmopolitan life in Istanbul took a particularly vigorous and productive form, creating a web of connection and identity that...
The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. II: Venice

The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. II: Venice

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Of all the great powers of the Mediterranean past, Venice was the most commercially ambitious. Her great wealth and sophisticated culture were products of a commercial empire that stretched from...
The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. I: Alexandria

The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. I: Alexandria

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The Liquid Continent, whose three volumes can be read independently, combines travel narrative, history and reflection on the contemporary Mediterranean. Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland around the eastern...
Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

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Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s....
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

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New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...
Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania

Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania

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An immersive journey through the tumultuous past and fascinating present of Australia's nearest neighbours "We are the original people of the region ... This is a black region, it's not...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

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Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror...
Survivors in Mexico

Survivors in Mexico

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West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

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No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

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Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...