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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Central and South Asia
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 2.17Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander Burnes Of all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more fearsome reputation that Bukhara in Uzbekistan. The first British Indian expedition, that of William Moorcroft in 1819-26, had never returned. Moorcroft's disappearance, like that of Livingstone or Franklin,... more...
The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places
Constable & Robinson 2010; US$ 11.65The great explorers were the celebrities of their day -- the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those who emerged triumphant from jungle, desert or polar wasteland were hailed as if returning from... more...
China: A History
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableThree thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. more...
The Honourable Company
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableA history of the English East India company. more...
India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableTwo hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book. more...
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named (Text Only)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableA vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest. more...
Mad About the Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South East Asia (Text Only)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableThe story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France?s greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today. more...
The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition)
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 20.46?There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history? Illustrated London News The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organised alphabetically, cross-referenced... more...
The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Siberia and Alaska
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 0.86Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm Steller As physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyage, Steller shared its triumphs, including landing the first Europeans in Alaska. He also shared its disasters. Returning across the north Pacific to Russian Kamchatka, the crew was stricken with scurvy and the vessel grounded. Bering... more...









