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  • The Bountyby Caroline Alexander

    Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 17.00

    More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths... more...

  • The Enduranceby Caroline Alexander

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 35.00

    In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea,... more...

  • The War That Killed Achillesby Caroline Alexander

    Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.00

    "Spectacular and constantly surprising." -Ken Burns Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the timeless stories of Western civilization. As she did in The Endurance and The Bounty , New York Times... more...

  • The War That Killed Achillesby Caroline Alexander

    Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 14.57

    A remarkable re-telling of Homer's Illiad, the great anti-war poem of the Western world. more...

  • The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (text only)by Caroline Alexander

    HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not Available

    The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty ? the most famous sea story of all time. more...

  • The Worst Journey in the Worldby Apsley Cherry-Garrard; Caroline Alexander

    Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 18.00

    The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard—the youngest member of Scott’s team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey—draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring... more...

  • Lost Gold of the Dark Agesby Caroline Alexander; Kevin Leahy

    National Geographic Society 2011; US$ 35.00

    In July 2009 an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast made an astonishing find: 1500 pieces of bejeweled gold and silver almost 1500 years old, buried, lost, then forgotten. The treasure trove promises to shed unprecedented light on the most mysterious period of British history?the so-called "Dark Ages"?when the Saxons, Anglos, Celts, Picts, Jutes, and... more...

  • Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asiaby Catharine Alexander; Victor Buchli; Caroline Humphrey

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95

    Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and Ulan-Ude: four cities with quite different responses... more...

  • The IBNET Water Supply and Sanitation Performance Blue Bookby Caroline Van Den Berg; Alexander Danilenko

    World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 19.99

    This book aims to raise awareness of how the International Benchmarking Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities (IBNET)can help utilities identify ways to improve urban water and wastewater services. It provides an introduction to benchmarking and to the objectives, scope and focus of IBNET and describes some of its recent achievements. The methodology... more...

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