History of other lands books

Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions...  Read More >>

Les quatriemes Rencontres ont reuni membres du College de France, de la Societe Asiatique et du CNRS sur le theme...  Read More >>

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After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage,...  Read More >>

In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative...  Read More >>

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Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers realised his life’s ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition...  Read More >>

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Edition originale non censurée. L'interrogatoire de Christian Rakovsky. Rakovsky est conduit dans une pièce agréable,...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking history of human interaction with Antarctica, the last continent on earth. For centuries it was...  Read More >>

The riveting story of the race between rival nations - the British, French and Americans - to claim Antarctica's...  Read More >>

From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers a broad variety of materials contextualizing the literary texts most...  Read More >>

Argues that performance is a crucial way of understanding the affective intercultural impact of the disappearance...  Read More >>

The story of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic, from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in...  Read More >>

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Most of the papers presented at the International Seminar on Post-Soviet States: Two Decades of Transition & Transformation,...  Read More >>

Equal parts romantic comedy and spy thriller, The Romeo Initiative follows a government secretary and her suspicions...  Read More >>

Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2011.  Read More >>

The gripping tale of a young man's obsession with an Arctic explorer's doomed quest to find the Northwest Passage...  Read More >>

From the very beginning of Russia's history, discord has been prevalent thanks to the ruinous jealousy of the nobles,...  Read More >>

The Falkland Islands sprang to fame in 1982, when Argentine Forces invaded and occupied them. British rule was re-established...  Read More >>

A collection of essays are dedicated to the historian and Latin Americanist Friedrich Katz (1927-2010). It is based...  Read More >>

The volume brings together 330 documents from the reign of King Alexander III of Scotland, a key period in the history...  Read More >>

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