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  • SYRIA. THE DESERT AND THE SNOW
    BELL, GERTRUDE
    "You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant force behind the Arab Revolt and was responsible for creating the boundaries of the modern state of Iraq,...
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    18,00 €

  • IN SEARCH OF KINGS AND CONQUERORS
    COOPER, LISA
    At the height of her career, Bell journeyed into the heart of the Middle East retracing the steps of the ancient rulers who left tangible markers of their presence in the form of castles, palaces, mosques, tombs and temples. Among the many sites she visited were Ephesus, Binbirkilise and Carchemish in modern-day Turkey as well as Ukhaidir, Babylon and Najaf within the borders o...
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    30,00 €

  • AFGHAN AMULET, THE
    PAINE, SHEILA
    AFGHAN AMULET, THE ...
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    18,15 €

  • PALESTINE AND EGYPT UNDER THE OTTOMANS
    KHATIB, HISHAM
    PALESTINE AND EGYPT UNDER THE OTTOMANS ...
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    98,20 €

  • KIPLING ABROAD
    KIPLING, RUDYARD
    Rudyard Kipling, es el decano de los escritores de viajes. Su genio para evocar las imágenes, sonidos y la atmósfera de los lugares se cristalizó en su ficción, en la que presentó a los lectores victorianos, el drama y el exotismo de Oriente.En "Kipling Abroad" se recogen algunos de los textos más descriptivos y reveladores de su escritura de viajes, que nunca antes se hab...
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    24,40 €

  • FROM CAIRO TO BAGHDAD
    CANTON, JAMES
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    84,75 €

  • JOURNEY INTO BARBARY
    LEWIS, WYNDHAM
    In the spring and summer of 1931, Wyndham Lewis travelled to the westernmost part of the Berber heartland in Morocco, known traditionally as 'Barbary'. Wanting to avoid what he called 'the Baedekered blight' of Anglo-American tourism, he set out for the majestic High Atlas mountains with pens and watercolours to record, in words and images, the rich traditional culture and chan...
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    19,50 €

  • PERSEUS IN THE WIND
    STARK, FREYA
    Written just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim saints, Indian temples, war and old age. Each chapter is devoted to a particula...
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    15,00 €

  • KOMBI TRAIL, THE
    COX, ROBERT / SHERWIN, ROGER / THOMPSON, TONY
    Cambridge, 1961. A group of students set off on the trip of a lifetime. Against the backdrop of the Cold War they travel through the Soviet Union to the Middle East, South Asia and on to Africa. Their mode of transport? The iconic VW Kombi. This book tells the story of that trip and the many experiences that they encountered along the way....
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    35,00 €

  • ROME ON THE EUPHRATES
    STARK, FREYA
    When Roman legions marched into Asia Minor in 200BC, their plan was to secure a buffer zone between the Mediterranean, which they virtually owned, and the area beyond, which they sought to isolate rather than control. Along the long frontier of the Euphrates in Turkey lay the easternmost limits of the Roman Empire--a region they called Augusta Euphrantentis. Their expanding inv...
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    18,20 €

  • DIVINE SUPERMARKET, THE
    RUTHVEN, MALISE
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    16,80 €

  • BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE
    FLEMING, PETER
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    18,20 €


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