Lagos
Supernatural City
ISBN: PB: 9781911723257,
ISBN: HB: 9781787386945,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2024
324 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
324 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
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An intimate portrait of life in one of the most vibrant cities on Earth.
This is a frantic, mystical journey through Africa's biggest metropolis: Lagos. Going beyond the popular images of mad traffic or crowded slums, we learn...
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£12.99
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£16.99
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Newcastle United Stole My Heart
Sixty Years in Black and White
ISBN: PB: 9781805260394,
ISBN: HB: 9781787385573,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2023
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 illus.
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 illus.
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Chosen as a "Book of the Year" by David Kynaston in the New Statesman
The magnificent story of a writer's lifelong obsession with his city and its football club.
When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of sh...
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£11.99
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£15.99
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Crossing the Congo
Over Land and Water in a Hard Place
ISBN: PB: 9781787389625,
ISBN: HB: 9781849046855,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2023
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan.
Traversing 2,5...
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£17.99
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£25.00
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Football in the Middle East
State, Society, and the Beautiful Game
ISBN: PB: 9781787387133,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2022
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A tour d'horizon exploring how the world's best-loved game is affecting people, societies and governments across the region.
Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern soci...
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£25.00
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Queen of the Sea
A History of Lisbon
ISBN: PB: 9781849049979,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2018
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing – in...
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£16.99
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Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
ISBN: PB: 9781849043311,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2016
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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James M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football – an arena where struggles for political control, protest and resistance, self-respect and gender rights are played out. Politics w...
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£25.00
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Country of Football
Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
ISBN: PB: 9781849044172,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2014
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book present...
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£16.99
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Madeira
The Mid-Atlantic Wine
ISBN: PB: 9781849043342,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2014
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Who does not know the phrase 'Have some madeira, m'dear'? Madeira is one of the world's greatest wines, with a fascinating history few others can equal. Capable of evolution over decades and with seemingly indefinite longevity,...
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£25.00
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Lifeblood
How to Change the World, One Dead Mosquito at a Time
ISBN: PB: 9781849041577,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2011
208 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
208 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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One day in 2006, the rich, well connected but very private philanthropist, Ray Chambers, flicked through the holiday snaps of his friend, the development economist Jeffrey Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of...
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£18.99
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African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World's Game
ISBN: PB: 9781849040389,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2010
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. Football may obey global rules,...
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£20.00
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