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Pacific Passages
Travelling the South Seas
by Hans - Christof Wächter
The first Europeans to catch sight of the islands of the South Seas thought that they had chanced upon paradise, and the tales they told on returning to their homes encouraged all other Europeans to idealise the islands as a tropical Arcadia.
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2008-07-01
978-1-905791-56-9
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Homer's Mediterranean
A Travel Companion
by Wolfgang Geisthövel
In this new literary travel book, the German author Wolfgang Geisthövel takes the reader on a journey based on Homer's famous epic poem.
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2008-07-01
978-1-905791-39-2
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Price: £10.40
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Rilke's Venice
A Travel Companion
by Birgit Haustedt. Translated by Stephen Brown
Rainer Maria Rilke criss-crossed Europe... And over and over again, he went to Venice: St Mark's Square and the Lido, the Doge's Palace and the Grand Canal were his intimate friends...
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2008-07-01
9781905791408
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Portrait of the Gulf Stream
In Praise of Currents
by Érik Orsenna
Orsenna describes himself as a ‘wanderer’ rather than a scientist, so he journeyed from the violent swirls off the coast of Florida to the maelstroms of Norway, from the shores of Scotland to the legendary approach to Nantucket, on land or on the sea, to meet scholars and discover the secrets of this powerful and mysterious ocean current.
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2008-02-28
978-1-905791-33-0
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The Liquid Continent - A Mediterranean Trilogy
Volume I: Alexandria
by Nicholas Woodsworth
When Nicholas Woodsworth came to Alexandria, he immediately felt it: ‘There is an intimacy, a garrulous warmth and near-tribal sociability that belongs to this city and is shared by all others on this sea. It is not African, nor European, nor Middle Eastern, either. But it is identifiable. It is Mediterranean.’
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2008-01-31
978-1-905791-32-3
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