Monuments of Orkney. A Visitor's Guide, Paperback - Caroline Wickham-Jones

Orkney-based archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones explores more than 60 of Orkney's monuments in concise and accessible terms, set in context by a ...

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Pilgrim in Bucharest. A Visitor’s Guide

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Abigail's second year at the Tarkana Academy has been an all-out disaster. She's just unwittingly helped Vertulious, an ancient he-witch and powerf...

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Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output.Publisher: John Donald Publishers LtdAuth...

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval c...

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Reducere. DescriptionBefore Sam Baron broke Odin's curse on the witches to become the first son born to a witch and the hero of the Legends of Orkney series,...

The Pantanal of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay is South America's Serengeti: its wetlands are the largest on Earth (they're half the size of France) ...

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Britain in a Bottle - a visitor's guide to the breweries, cider mills, distilleries and vineyards of Great Britain, covering over 250 sites in Engl...

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Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can e...

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Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

A detailed historical study of the buildings of Mayfair and St James's.Photographs accompanied by black-and-white pictures and period artIllustrati...

This A-Z Map of Scotland is a full colour visitors' atlas and guide combining detailed road mapping, at 3 miles to 1 inch, with an illustrated town...

This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a na...

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A lively and amusing guide for time-travellers planning a trip back to ancient Greece, packed full of historical information about interesting tour...

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New edition of the Orkney Peedie Guide Book, updated and expanded with many new photographs and increased coverage of all of Orkney. The "Heart of ...

Reducere. When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuver...

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This publication presents the exuberant drawings of Laura Knight RA, a key twentieth-century artist.

Lifts the lid on the world of privilege depicted by Jane Austen, revealing the grubby realities of life in Regency England. Would Elizabeth Bennet ...