Books from Signal Books
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Imperial Skirmishes: War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America
By Andrew Graham-YoollJ. Robertson , Letters on South America , vol . I , pp . 141-52 . Quoted in E. Bradford Burns , Latin America , a Concise Interpretive History . ( Prentice - Hall , New Jersey , 1972 ) , pp . 106-7 . Manchester Guardian , 28 January ...
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Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas
By Sabine Baring-GouldAged twenty-eight, the young writer and teacher was fascinated by the tradition of the Icelandic sagas, and this was the catalyst for his adventure and the book that emerged from it.
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Oxford: A Cultural and Literary Companion
By David HoranBenson's successor , the Rev Coley , caused a scandal in the national press by refusing to bury one of his parishioners , claiming that he was “ a notorious evil liver . ” The local community presented a petition calling for the funeral ...
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The Blue Nile Revealed: The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition, 1968
By Richard SnailhamWe come , finally , to the greatest of them all — Arne Rubin . This tough Swede , at the age of forty - seven , canoed alone from the Abbai bridge to Khartoum in nine days . A burly economist , who had worked for the United Nations in ...
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Lisbon: A Cultural and Literary Companion
By Paul Buck... Virgílio de , 15 , 203 Leonor , Dona , 142 Lind , Josefina , 68 , 155 Lisboa , Eugénio , 76 Llansol , Maria Gabriela , 32 , 110 Lobo Antunes , António , 175-76 Lopes , Adília , 47 Lopes , Fernando , 64-65 , 228 Lopes , Teresa Rita ...
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Haile Selassie's War
By Anthony MocklerIII : La Guerra Italo - Etiopica — Fronte Sud ( Addis Ababa , 1937 ) . VALLETTI - BORGNINI , Gen. Marino , Amba Alagi ( Rome , 1962 ) . VERNI , V. , MSVN ( Naples , 1932 ) . ZOLI , Corrado , ( 1 ) Cronache Etiopiche ( Rome , 1930 ) .
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Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey
By Ken DrydenHockey is now more skilled and more tactful and, like pro football and basketball, the players are bigger, stronger, and faster. This is the game that Steve Montador gave his life to.
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Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary History
By Jason WilsonThe drainage and water - supply were put right by British engineers in the 1870s , for by 1918 there were some 3,000 miles of sewers in the city , and , like elsewhere , today's safe drinking water reeks of chlorine .
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Oxford
By Edward ThomasOxford was published in 1903 but rather than accompanying the illustrations it was a masterpiece that aided Thomas' reputation as the quintessential English writer. The work is reprinted here along with eleven of Fulleylove's illustrations.
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Theft of Memory
By Jonathan KozolLyrical and stirring, "The Theft of Memory" is at once a tender tribute to a father from his son and a richly colored portrait of a devoted doctor who lived more than a century. "From the Hardcover edition.""
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Lima: A Cultural and Literary History
By James HigginsJames Higgins explores the city's history and evolving identity reflected in its architecture, literature, painting and music.
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Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion
By Jason WilsonThe most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. This volume explores this contradictory and culturally rich city by tracing its development from remote settlement to a modern metropolis.
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The Signal
By Anthony DayThis book, is an amusing parody of the upper class English amateur detective novel.
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History of the 20th Century
By John HiggsThis is the story of that confusing century as told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of our sciences, arts, and culture.
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Edinburgh: A Cultural and Literary History
By Donald CampbellPart of the Cities of the Imagination series, this is an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide by a lifelong native to Scotland's vibrant capital and home to one of the world's greatest arts festivals.
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Blood and Silver: A History of Piracy in the Caribbean and Central America
By Kris E. LaneThe Bahamian governor in the early 1680s , Robert Clarke , had recently issued letters of marque against Spanish vessels in retaliation for local disputes in the Straits of Florida . These commissions were technically illegal ...
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
By Christopher Hitchens#1 New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the National Book Award--one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time--shares his personal life story.
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Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History
By Martin Garrett1601-2 ) the London actors Kemp and Burbage are brought on as characters ; performers and audience are encouraged to laugh both at the professionals ' ignorance and at their own pretentions when Kemp tells Burbage that university plays ...
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倫敦襍碎
By Yee ChiangBy the 1930s Western books about China were common. But a book about the West, and particularly London, written by a Chinese author, was a rarity - and continues to...
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Letters from London: Seven Essays by C.L.R. James
By Cyril Lionel Robert James"Letters from London collects these essays for the first time in seventy years. It is an essential record of a crucial period in James's life.