The Turkish Embassy Letters: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Wortley Montagu, Teresa Heffernan and Daniel O'Quinn
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In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the...
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
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Turgenev (1818-1883) was one of Russia's most famous writers, friend of Flaubert, Dostoyevsky and...
Priam's Gold: Schliemann and the Lost Treasures of Troy
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Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity...But was Troy an actual place...
The Demon of Geopolitics: How Karl Haushofer Educated Hitler and Hess
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Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "father of...
Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out
Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield
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As a child, Bill Graham fled Europe to escape Hitler's armies. He grew up on the streets of New York...
Border Crossings: Essays in Identity and Belonging
Paul Longley Arthur and Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar
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The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this wide-ranging...
Clandestino: In Search of Manu Chao
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A decade ago, Manu Chao's band, Mano Negra, toured Colombia by train, negotiating with government...
Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
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When Paul Glaser discovered his Aunt Rosie's remarkable wartime diaries, photographs and letters he...
Daniel O'Connell: A Graphic Life: 2016
Jody Moylan and Mateusz Nowakowski
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Daniel O'Connell - 'The Liberator' - lived a big, great and graphic life. Born in Kerry in 1775, he...
Distant Snows: A Mountaineer's Odyssey
John Harding and Robin Hanbury-Tenison
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In Distant Snows, mountaineer John Harding recollects his worldwide adventures spanning sixty years...