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23 produkter
Rising Ground
A Search for the Spirit of Place
Häftad, 2015
133 kr
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When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. …
Crossing Place
A Journey Among the Armenians
Häftad, 2015
131 kr
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A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim …
Under a Metal Sky
A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
Häftad, 2026
123 kr
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The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species. Ochre first prompted humans to express themselves in art; tin and copper helped instigate the Bronze Age and later the Industrial Revolution; silver kick-started the engines of global trade. Each of these substances generated a …
Spirit-Wrestlers (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
60 kr
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From the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House.In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born. He is a Doukhobor, a `spirit-wrestler’, a member of a group of radical Russian sectarians. He is pointing to a village beyond the southern steppe, at the far south …
Crossing Place
A Journey Among the Armenians
E-bok, 2015
71 kr
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Ebook edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a …
Spirit-Wrestlers
Häftad, 1999
154 kr
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The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House.In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born. He is a Doukhobor, a ‘spirit-wrestler’, a member of a group of radical Russian sectarians. He is pointing to a village beyond the southern steppe, at …
Main Cages
Häftad, 2003
177 kr
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The acclaimed first novel by one of Flamingo’s most gifted young writers, author of ‘The Bronski House’ and ‘The Spirit Wrestlers’.Philip Marsden’s brilliant first novel is set in the 1930s, in the small Cornish fishing village of Polmayne. A newcomer to the village, Jack Sweeney, buys a boat and …
Chains of Heaven
An Ethiopian Romance
Häftad, 2006
154 kr
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Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.‘Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a wider purpose to our life, it is to understand the world, to seek …
Levelling Sea
The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail
Häftad, 2012
160 kr
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The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute more than anything to the transformation of the country from …
Bronski House
Häftad, 2005
155 kr
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A remarkable, multifaceted story made up of journal accounts, memories, conversations and personal experience, The Bronski House is a paean to Poland, a landmark in travel writing, and a family history – tied together by the unique experience of returning from exile.In the summer of 1992, …
Barefoot Emperor
An Ethiopian Tragedy
E-bok, 2008
102 kr
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A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history, featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun.Towards the end of 1867, Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia burnt his own capital, took his vast mortar – named …
Chains of Heaven
An Ethiopian Romance
E-bok, 2009
88 kr
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Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.`Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a wider purpose to our life, it is to understand the world, to seek …
Bronski House (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
96 kr
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A remarkable, multifaceted story made up of journal accounts, memories, conversations and personal experience, The Bronski House is a paean to Poland, a landmark in travel writing, and a family history – tied together by the unique experience of returning from exile.In the summer of 1992, …
Main Cages
E-bok, 2012
94 kr
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The acclaimed first novel by one of Harper Perennial’s most gifted young writers, author of `The Bronski House’ and `The Spirit Wrestlers’.Philip Marsden’s brilliant first novel is set in the 1930s, in the small Cornish fishing village of Polmayne. A newcomer to the village, Jack Sweeney, buys a …
Levelling Sea
The Story of a Cornish Haven in the Age of Sail
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute more than anything to the transformation of the country from …
Under a Metal Sky
A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder
Inbunden, 1900
348 kr
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Discover the wonders and perils of the earth’s precious metals—what they have offered us as humans, and how they’ve forever changed our relationship with the world around us The ground beneath our feet is full of riches: the ocher that allowed prehistoric humans to paint on cave walls; the tin that …
Summer Isles
A Voyage of the Imagination
Häftad, 2020
122 kr
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In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. On the way, he must navigate the west coast of Ireland and the Inner Hebrides. …
Under a Metal Sky
A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
Inbunden, 2025
212 kr
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'A book of breathtaking wealth and depth... Marsden takes the history of metals and, from it, creates a dazzling history of humanity and our relationship with this planet. It can only be alchemy'Tom Bullough, author of Sarn HelenThe discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our …
Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust
Häftad, 2008
1084 kr
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This comprehensive research Handbook brings together cutting-edge legal and economic analysis into antitrust issues by leading experts from Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America. The Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust covers a wide-range of areas including: the meaning of …
Ethiopia
The Living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom
Av Mary Anne Fitzgerald, Philip Marsden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1368 kr
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The ancient Axumite Kingdom, now a part of Ethiopia, was possibly the first nation in the world to convert to Christianity. In AD 340 King Ezana commissioned the construction of the imposing basilica of St. Mary of Tsion. It was here, the Ethiopians say, that Menelik, son of King Solomon and the …
Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust
Inbunden, 2006
4303 kr
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This comprehensive research Handbook brings together cutting-edge legal and economic analysis into antitrust issues by leading experts from Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America. The Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust covers a wide-range of areas including: the meaning of …
