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A Crack in the Edge of the World - The Great American Earthquake of 1906
| Author: | Simon Winchester |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 142599 |
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A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this...
The American Future - A History
| Author: | Simon Schama |
| Publisher: | Bodley Head |
| Catalogue number: | 169580 |
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Simon Schama’s latest authoritative work - The American Future - comes at an apposite time in the country’s history. Published on the brink of an historic November 2008 election, the imminent collapse...
| Author: | Richard Fortey |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 130574 |
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Fortey, a paleontologist by profession, has created an exceptional 'Intimate History' of the Earth. Adopting the role of enthusiastic guide, he leads the reader around and even into some of the world...
| Author: | Alistair Cooke |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 169743 |
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Alistair’s Cooke’s America is now widely recognised as a classic, an irresistibly readable guide to what has made this powerful democracy grow and survive through 200 years of unfolding drama. Cooke...
Divine Magnetic Lands - A Journey in America
| Author: | Timothy O'Grady |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 167734 |
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Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America is Timothy O'Grady’s journey home to the USA, exploring and rediscovery of his homeland after 30 years. It is an absorbing investigation of the changes in...
North-East Greenland 1908-60 - The Trapper Era
| Author: | Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen |
| Publisher: | Scott Polar Research Institute |
| Catalogue number: | 173025 |
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Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen’s North-East Greenland is a comprehensive survey of life in the polar north of the Arctic. Based on unpublished diaries and personal interviews with trappers and other pioneers...
| Author: | Brian Schofield |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 169965 |
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"Selling Your Father's Bones" describes the fate of the American West and its repercussions in modern American mythology.
In the summer of 1877, around 700 members of the Nez Perce native American...
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The basis of the this handsome looking book is the true story of Gilbert Bland. In 1995 Bland was caught stealing four 200-year-old maps from the Peabody Library of John Hopkins University in Baltimore. Further investigation revealed that 19 libraries across North America had been systematically vandalised...
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