Product Description: Planning your first backpacking trip can be daunting, especially with so much contradictory information out there. This is why Backpacking for Beginners: The Essential Traveler’s Guide to Backpacking and Hiking Around The World cuts to the chase and gives you the information you really need, in a compact, easy-to-read format...read more

Product Description: "[...]have we marked out all of ancient Rome. Strabo[12] says it could be gone round in a single day. And according to this same author it was within these limits that the annual auspices[13] could be taken. Both city and land increased with time...read more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Thirty years ago London's heart was stripped of what a modern city needs — food, water, power, medicine, transport, communications, security... The wreck survived. Now a stranger arrives, bearing an urgent message. In days the destinies of London — and of Earth — will change...read more

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Product Description: In 1923, the industrialist Samuel Courtauld gave [actual symbol not reproducible]50,000 to the British government to encourage the purchase of a collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. At the same time, he continued to build up his own fine collection of French late nineteenth-century paintings, most of which he later gave to the Courtauld Institute of Art...read more

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