Walking Europe's Last Wilderness
A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains
ISBN: HB: 9780300253542,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history.
The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beec...
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20.00 GBP
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Dead Sea
A 10,000 Year History
ISBN: HB: 9780300259421,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus., 4 maps
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus., 4 maps
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores.
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters ar...
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25.00 GBP
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Dickensland
The Curious History of Dickens' London
ISBN: PB: 9780300279344,
ISBN: HB: 9780300266207,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years.
Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since th...
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11.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Madrid
A New Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780300276336,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
480 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 colour illus., 2 maps
480 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 colour illus., 2 maps
The miraculous story of Madrid – how a village became a great world city.
For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the "Reconqui...
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25.00 GBP
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London
A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings
ISBN: HB: 9780300269208,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 88 colour illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 88 colour illus.
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard.
A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council...
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25.00 GBP
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Stone Circles
A Field Guide
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300235982,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
448 pp., 21,6x14,3 cm, 147 colour illus., 8 maps
448 pp., 21,6x14,3 cm, 147 colour illus., 8 maps
The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland.
From Stonehenge and the Ring of Brogdar to the Rollright Stones and Avebury, the British and Irish Isles are scattered with the stone circles of our prehistoric ancestors. Although t...
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30.00 GBP
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Liberty over London Bridge
A History of the People of Southwark
ISBN: HB: 9780300272208,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour and black&white illus., 2 maps
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour and black&white illus., 2 maps
The first complete history of Southwark, London's stubbornly independent community over the Thames.
Southwark's fortunes have always been tied to those of the City of London across the river. But from its founding in Roman times through to flourish...
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20.00 GBP
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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.
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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45.00 GBP
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Captain Cook and the Pacific
Art, Exploration and Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300207248,
Yale University Press,
September 2017
256 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
256 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...
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40.00 GBP
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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.
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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27.50 GBP
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