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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 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
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...
| Author: | Brian Schofield |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 169965 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
"Selling Your Father's Bones" describes the fate of the American West and it's repercussions in modern American mythology.
In the summer of 1877, around seven hundred numbers of the Nez Perce native...
| Author: | Richard Fortey |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 130574 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
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...
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Get a unique insight into Bill Bryson's famous travels and writings with this fascinating and funny interview where our own MD, Douglas Schatz, fired the questions...
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USA - A Pacific Coast Road Trip
Stanfords’ floor manager Gregor Swiderek followed the Pacific Coast on a road trip taking in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and eventually, Los Angeles. Find out what happened in between…
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Gregor, a floor manager at our Covent Garden store, has just come back from an epic road trip through south-east USA. Here’s his first report back, where he visits Washington DC and then journeys to Charleston in South Carolina…
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USA - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Our trip started in Toronto, Canada, and it was to be a two day car journey through New York State and Pennsylvania to the town of Gettysburg, just North of the Maryland border. The drive down takes you through some fantastic countryside including the Allegheny National Forest...
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I love the New England countryside; forested mountains, hilly pastures, red barns – postcard pictures. We decided to go there in the middle of September – which was too early for the famous autumn colours – so that we could escape the crowds which usually fill the rural roads during October, and to save some money of course as well.
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USA - San Francisco, California
San Francisco, like New York, is an un-American city. They’re different from the rest. And while New York is characterised by its hurly-burly and take-no-prisoners population, San Fran has gone completely the other way...
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USA - coast to coast on a budget
Driving across America is one of those things which you have to try at least once in your lifetime. Our trip started in Orlando. After three months’ work in Disney World, five of us were sick of Mickey Mouse and decided to go west...
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