The archipelago

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?An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light? Sunday Times Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken,…

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A sparkling history of Italy from the post-war to the present by renowned historian John Foot Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some claimed…

Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote series of islands was only discovered by Westerners in 1873,…

The Gulag Archipelago : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9781843430858 : 1843430851 : 30 Jan 2003 : The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police,…

The Malay Archipelago : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141394404 : 0141394404 : 05 Feb 2015 : Of all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world -…

The Gulag Archipelago: Experiment in Literary Investigation v. 1 : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061253713 : 0061253715 : 01 Sep 2007 : "P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover.

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is…

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of…

Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints…

The Gulag Archipelago: Experiment in Literary Investigation v. 3 : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061253737 : 0061253731 : 01 Sep 2007 : &;BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.&; &;Time Volume 3 of…

In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining…

A tense "Siberian Western" set in the inhospitable, boundless Russia taiga at the height of the Cold War

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823?1913) was a British naturalist best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being…

The Gulag Archipelago : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9781784871512 : : 01 Nov 2018 : 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph

In a world at war, the Dream Archipelago is a neutral zone, and therefore an alluring prospect to the young men on both sides of the conflict. In this interlinked collection of short stories and novellas, Christopher…

Trained as a doctor, John Crawfurd (1783?1868) went on to have a distinguished career in colonial administration with the East India Company. He held senior posts in Java from 1811 to 1816, including that of resident at…

The first book devoted to the art of the vast South Seas island groups in the Bismarck Archipelago.This book features stunning, ephemeral creations made with natural materials such as plant fibre, light woods, bark…

A collections of 70 poems from one of Malaya?s leading poets, that depict longing, loneliness, modernization, and insights in Malaysian culture.

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman?s widely acclaimed study of Japan?s environmental policies over the centuries. Professor Totman…

The Kvarken Archipelago is Finland's first Unesco Natural Heritage Site. The story of the Kvarken Archipelago began about 10.000 years ago when the melting of the continental ice sheet as it retreated gave rise to this…

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061253805 : 0061253804 : 07 Aug 2007 : Translation of: Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956.

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is…

This early work is Isabella Lucy Bird 1875 travelogue, 'The Hawaiian Archipelago'. Having travelled to the area for health reasons, Bird found herself spending almost seven months traversing the islands, exploring…

Of all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great…

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the…

Norway's Spitsbergen Archipelago, known as Svalbard to the Norwegians, is of increasing interest to Arctic scholars and geographers, as well as to military historians and analysts of strategy. It was the farthest…

A tense "Siberian Western" set in the inhospitable, boundless Russia taiga at the height of the Cold War

In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining…

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSONA vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres…

The Gulag Archipelago: Experiment in Literary Investigation v. 2 : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061253720 : 0061253723 : 01 Sep 2007 : &;BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.&; &;Time Volume 2 of…

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823?1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being…

Of all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great…

"This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] should start a debate about modern literature with a rich potential for further development." ?Michael ScammellReturn from the…

A tense "Siberian Western" set in the inhospitable, boundless Russia taiga at the height of the Cold War

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman?s widely acclaimed study of Japan?s environmental policies over the centuries. Professor Totman…

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay…