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  • Geography in Classical Antiquity

    by Kai Brodersen, Daniela Dueck ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the physical and cultural world are a key aspect of ancient history, but until now there has been no up-to ... Read more

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  • The Ley Line Legacy: Watkins' Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track

    by Alfred Watkins ...
    The Ley Line Legacy brings together Alfred Watkins’ two groundbreaking works, Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track, in a single volume charting the origins of one of Britain’s most enduring landscape theories.First published in 1922, Early British Trackways introduced Watkins’ revolutionary concept of ‘leys’, straight alignments linking prehistoric monuments, burial sites, and ... Read more

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  • Notes from The Century Before

    A Journal from British Columbia

    by Edward Hoagland ...
    In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland’s extraordinary gifts for portraiture—his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide—Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, ... Read more

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  • The Last Blank Spaces

    Exploring Africa and Australia

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last ... Read more

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  • Christopher Columbus

    The Discovery of the New World

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Christopher Columbus in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus set out in 1492 to find a new route to Asia and the East Indies. But on 12 October, he accidentally discovered America. While most people know that the discovery of America ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Circumnavigators

    by Mr Derek Wilson ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    "Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the planet but within the spirit of the explorer. The story of circumnavigation is thus a long saga of human adventure, travel and discovery. Beginning with ... Read more

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  • The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

    by Edited by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Atlas of Jordan

    History, Territories and Society

    Edited by Myriam Ababsa ...
    Series series Contemporain publications
    This atlas aims to provide the reader with key pointers for a spatial analysis of the social, economic and political dynamics at work in Jordan, an exemplary country of the Middle East complexities. Being a product of seven years of scientific cooperation between Ifpo, the Royal Jordanian Geographic Center and the University of Jordan, it includes the contributions of 48 European, Jordanian and ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers

    Climate Change and Andean Society

    by Mark Carey ...
    Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Conserving Cultural Landscapes

    Challenges and New Directions

    Edited by Ken Taylor, Archer St. Clair, Nora J. Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    New approaches to both cultural landscapes and historic urban landscapes increasingly recognize the need to guide future change, rather than simply protecting the fabric of the past. Challenging traditional notions of historic preservation, Conserving Cultural Landscapes takes a dynamic multifaceted approach to conservation. It builds on the premise that a successful approach to urban and cultural ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Cradle to Grave

    Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

    by Larry Lankton ...
    Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000

    by Christian B. Long ...
    The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema, one that is focused on the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and taste in the era before the rise of digital cinema. ... Read more

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