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  • DICKENS'S LONDON
    CLARK, PETER
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    15,00 €

  • BORGES IN SICILY
    LUQUE, ALEJANDRO
    When Alejandro Luque receives a book of photographs of the Argentinian writer, essayist and poet, Luis Borges, in Sicily he decides to trace the writer’s journey, setting off with a group of friends on his own Sicilian odyssey.Meticulously identifying the location of each photograph, Luque uses the pictures of Borges to imagine how the elderly writer felt when faced with the sa...
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  • BEIJING, AN ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF
    CLEMENTS, JONATHAN
    An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing presents the capital of China from its earliest beginnings as a campsite for primitive hominids (‘Peking Man’), through its fluctuating fortunes under a dozen dynasties. The site has been a capital for several states, including Mongolian chiefs and the glorious Ming emperors, whose tombs can still be found on its outskirts. Through Bei...
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  • FINLAND, AN ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF
    CLEMENTS, JONATHAN
    In the general mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little known and seldom gaining prominence on its own. But as Jonathan Clements shows in An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland, it has a long and fascinating history, one that offers oddities and excitements galore: from prehistoric herders to medieval lords, Christian martyrs and Viki...
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  • DICKENS: LONDON INTO KENT
    CLARK, PETER
    Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near-photographic memory made his contact with the city indelible from a very young age and it remained his constant focus. Virginia Woolf maintained that, ‘we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens,’ as he produces ‘characters who exist not in detail, n...
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  • CAMBRIDGE -AN ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF
    TAMES, RICHARD
    Cambridge offers the splendour of King's College Chapel and the beauty of 'the Backs' but also outstanding collections of fans and fritillaries, sculpture and stained glass, medieval coins and oriental manuscripts. Free attractions include the world-class Fitzwilliam Museum and Botanic Gardens, quirky Kettle's Yard, and museums devoted to Archaeology, Anthropology, Zoology, Ear...
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