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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s.

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Georg Simmel was a brilliant, groundbreaking thinker, whose wide-ranging lectures held audiences spellbound in turn-of-the-century Berlin and throughout Europe. The theories ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR. A journey across the former Ottoman Empire reveals its legacy and the integral diversity threatened amid rising ...

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For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form ...

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When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village in northern Cameroon ...

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A brand new edition of the international bestseller. Swiss Watching is a fascinating journey around Switzerland that goes beyond the cliches of banks, skis, francs and cheese

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The award-winning TV adventurer and travel writer’s enthralling account of his 5,000-mile expedition around the Arabian Peninsula, from Iraq to Lebanon.

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An often maligned county, Essex’s recent history has been the subject of stereotypes, neatly surmised by Spitting Image’s anthem, Essex is Crap.

Radical ESSEX seeks to ...

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The story of a city landscape told through its trees, both past and present.