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  • A STORY OF THE SILK ROAD
    A STORY OF THE SILK ROAD
    CLEMENTS, JONATHAN
    The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a traveller’s history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and nameless forts. It was the conduit that first brought Buddhism, Christianity and Islam into China, and the site of much of the ‘Great Game’ between Victorian em...
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  • BUDAPEST
    BUDAPEST
    CLAPTON, NICHOLAS
    Hungary is in the process of abandoning the trappings of its Communist past, while attempting to preserve its culture from creeping Americanisation and globalised blandness. The author is glad to find that certain old-fashioned attitudes of courtesy and overall decency are still deeply ingrained in Hungarian society. Music, dance and song play an important part in Hungarian cul...
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  • BEIJING, AN ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF
    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
    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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  • CAMBRIDGE -AN ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF
    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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