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The Coral Island
R. M. Ballantyne
Hardcover - $60.95
In this adult edition of the children's classic, three English boys, shipwrecked on a deserted island, create an idyllic society despite typhoons, wild hogs, and hostile visitors. Then evil pirates kidnap one of the youths whose adventures continue a ...
The Historic Thames - Illustrated
Hilaire Belloc
Hardcover - $44.95
An unabridged reproduction of the 1907 publication, to include 58 digitally restored mezzotint illustrations by A. R. Quinton.
The Conquest of Nature : Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
David Blackbourn
Paperback - $30.95
Majestic, lyrically written, and handsomely illustrated, this absorbing work traces the rise of the German nation through the development of water and landscape. 70 illustrations.
Wisconsin German Land and Life
Heike Bungert
Hardcover - $51.95
This volume, an innovative approach to immigration research, is the cooperative project of a group of German and American scholars. The focus is on migrants from farming communities along the Rhine who relocated to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century ...
Carpenter"s Geographical Reader - South America
Frank G. Carpenter
Paperback - $39.95
Written and photographed by Frank G. Carpenter at the end of the 19th Century, this book depicts an area of geography little changed with the centuries. Full of information about this developing continent including magnificent photographs, it is full ...
Geography and Vision : Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
Denis Cosgrove
Paperback - $60.95
"Geography and Vision" is a series of personal reflections by leading cultural geographer, Denis Cosgrove, on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. Ranging historically from the sixteenth century ...
Sustainability or Collapse? : An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
Robert Costanza
Hardcover - $77.95
Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding th ...
On the Move : Mobility in the Modern Western World
Tim Cresswell
Hardcover - $265.95
"On the Move "presents a rich history of one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Internet. And typically, pe ...