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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 €

  • PICTORIAL CAMBODIAN TEXTILES
    GREEN, GILLIAN
    Las representaciones pictóricas de ahorcamientos de seda camboyanos, pidan, son únicas en el Sudeste Asiático interior. Muchos de los pocos tejidos antiguos que sobreviven de este género visualizan, en detalle asombroso, temas de Theravada Buddhist y está una respuesta en seda a imágenes similares en otros medios de comunicación artísticos también utilizados en com...
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    49,50 €

  • IN THE REALM OF GODS AND KINGS
    TOPSFIELD, ANDREW
    Each work is fully illustrated and most of these works have not been previously published. The book also includes short background essays describing aspects of Indian life related to the works. This volume celebrates the wealth and diversity of the arts of India created for the life of courts and temples from 1000 BC to the twentieth century. Paintings, objects and photographs,...
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    55,30 €

  • BOLLYWOOD. POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
    MOHAN, LALIT (ED.)
    Written by Gulzar, Shyam Benegal, Lalit Mohan Joshi, among many other experts on the Industry, Bollywood, Popular Indian Cinema is the ultimate guide to the most popular of Indian cinema. A gripping analysis of the last 100 years is provided by the book’s editor, Lalit Mohan Joshi. It covers the long Indian film history including rarely seen images from film archives together w...
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    49,45 €

  • 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 €

  • A WAY INTO INDIA
    SINGH, RAGHUBIR
    Raghubir Singh es uno de los pioneros del uso del color fotografía de calle y documental en India. Este libro recoge una selección de fotografías que el autor realizó durante un extenso viaje por su país natal a la manera de Robert Frank a bordo de un Ambassador. Singh nos muestra una visión del país a través de la ventana de su propio vehículo. ...
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    39,95 €