London Under by Peter Ackroyd
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Secondhand. "London Under" is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the ...Show more
Tales of Two Cities: Paris : London and the Birth of the Modern City by Jonathan Conlin
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"Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they both vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet here Jonathan Conlin uncovers the intriguing relationship between them for the fi ...Show more
The Taipans - Hong Kong's Merchant Princes by Colin Crisswell
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Everything in Style - Harriett Low's Macau by Rosmarie W. N. Lamas
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Macau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China through the only permitted gateway of Canton. To this European enclave on the China coast in 1829 came Harriett Low, a young American accompanying her aunt and uncle, a trader from Salem, Massachusetts. Throughout her ...Show more
From Maui to Cook - The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific by David Lewis
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Arabia and the Arabs - From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam by Robert G. Hoyland
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Peoples of the Ancient World Ser.
Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriorsArabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming of Islam ...Show more
Roller-Coaster - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
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Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catast ...Show more
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
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Category: HISTORY
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and ...Show more
Footprints in Paris : A Few Streets, a Few Lives by Gillian Tindall
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
This unique and intensely involving book evokes the texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris which has survived against all the odds of time and chance. Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked this earth before us. Here, us ...Show more