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Voyages and Discoveries
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableRenaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English... more...
Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya
The University Press of Kentucky 2006; US$ 60.00The Himalaya inspire the notion of Shangri-la and are world renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery and the ancient cultures that tenaciously inhabit this harsh and sublime landscape. Home to all fourteen of the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and some of its deepest gorges, the region is a trove of biological and cultural diversity.... more...
Vergleichen,Der radikale Pietismus Verflechten, Verwirren?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 43.13Hauptbeschreibung Dass eine europäisch gewendete Geschichtsschreibung mit Methoden des Vergleichs, des Transfers und der Verflechtung arbeiten sollte oder gar zu arbeiten gewohnt ist, gehört seit mehreren Jahren zum festen Kanon der diesbezüglichen Diskussionen. Arbeiten, die diesen Forderungen empirisch nachgekommen sind, gehören jedoch noch immer... more...
Paths Without Glory
Potomac Books Inc. 2009; US$ 16.95The downfall of England's greatest diplomat/adventurer more...
Wheels Within Wheels
Eland Publishing 2011; US$ 14.57What is it that makes us who we are? In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveller Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self ? strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first ? her intermittent formal education and the intense... more...
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Summersdale 2012; US$ 9.99The story of a madcap five-month family trip to write a travel guideembracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes "Hurry up," I shout at Dinah, whilst on the overhead telly Ray Mears’ Survival is playing extraordinarily loudly because Charlie sat on the... more...
Where the Paved Road Ends
Potomac Books Inc. 2011; US$ 29.95In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle EastYemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. The previous year, she had sold her gold jewelry to... more...
The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95Providing concisely written entries on the most important current issues in Central Asia and Eurasia, this atlas offers relevant background information on the region?s place in the contemporary political and economic world. Features include: Profiles of the constituent countries of Central Asia, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,... more...
The Routledge Atlas of British History
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales ? and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain?s overseas empire. This new edition includes: Politics ? from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of England?s French Empire... more...
The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 30.95The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed maps. The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945, while also setting the chronological story in the wider context of the war... more...









