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  • WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    BURTON, RICHARD
    This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton “in the aspect in which he was known best to the world – as a traveler and explorer”. Spanning the period from 1853 to 1870, the most active years of Burton’s life, the book includes chapters on Burton’s controversial pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina, his travels to the city of Harar (in present-day Ethiop...
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    37,50 €

  • ARMENIA AND KARABAGH. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY
    WALKER, CHRISTOPHER J. (ED)
    The focus of this book is an issue crucial to Armenian identity - the disrupted enclave of mountainous(Nagorno) Karabagh in neighbouring Azerbaijan. For centuries a centre of Armenian culture and intellectual life and with an Armenian majority, Karabagh or Artsakh has consistently been denied an Armenian identity by successive Russian, British and Azeri rulers. Since 1920 Armen...
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    45,53 €

  • GREEK LESSONS
    KANG, HAN
    In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine...
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    14,75 €

  • AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW
    KATOUH, ZOULFA
    An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go.This brand new paperback edition contains exclusive bonus short story Joy. Set in the world of Lemon Trees, it features never-before-seen moments between Salama and Kenan.__...
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    12,75 €

  • HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR
    RESSA, MARIA
    How to Stand Up to a Dictator is confronting, even terrifying - but feels vital... This book lays bare how big tech companies are allowing democracy to be eroded through the dissemination of disinformation, and the devastating effects it can have on a nation...Ressa spends her days on bail awaiting her next court hearing. The rest of us should be watching with bated breath. In ...
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    16,00 €

  • THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA
    KARUNATILAKA, SHEHAN
    Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts w...
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    14,75 €

  • SHE AND HER CAT
    SHINKAI, MAKOTO / NAKAGAWA, NARUKI
    On the outskirts of Tokyo, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times.- A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young woman, willing her to end a faltering relationship- A gifted artist fatally misunderstands her boss's enthusiasm for her paintings- A manga fan shuts herself away after the death of her...
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    13,00 €

  • KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982
    NAM-JOO, CHO
    Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all.Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kan...
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    13,80 €

  • 07 - HONG KONG [ENG] -ALTAÏR MAGAZINE
    Travel to Hong Kong with the unique point of view of Altaïr Magazine's local contributors. Discover a new perspective on the art, culture, gastronomy, history and architecture of this city of a thousand cities where nothing lasts forever. ...
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    19,00 €

  • ME, MY BIKE AND A STREET DOG CALLED LUCY -BRADT
    HOLMES, ISHBEL
    This new title from Bradt tells the inspiring and emotional story of Ishbel Holmes, also known as 'World Bike Girl', a Scottish-Iranian woman who became a champion racing cyclist in spite of having been abandoned by her family, and who set off on the adventure of a lifetime despite her lack of experience, money or equipment.Ishbel Holmes was determined to cycle the world but he...
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    15,00 €

  • FROM KHARTOUM TO JERUSALEM
    MAIRS, RACHEL
    In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the Holy Land, from travellers of different nationalities, social classes, religions, ge...
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    43,50 €

  • AMONG THE TIBETANS
    BIRD, ISABELLA
    Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties. But she was not the slightest bit fazed at the prospect of discomfort and possible death. And nearly die she did, at least once, before the trip was over. Isabella travelled over sever...
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    24,00 €