A large-format, lavishly illustrated book on 16 voyages of discovery that took place between 1714 and 1854 by the famous (Lap?rouse, Bougainville et Dumont d'Urville) and the less so (La Ba... read more
Rossmore's photographs of fading historic buildings, taken over a decade from the early 1960s, are now lodged in the Irish Architectural Archive. Here seventy images from the length and brea... read more
From its invention in 1817 to its present-day revival - the ultimate sustainable machine that enabled colonial conquest, gentrification and a reduction of rural inbreeding...
In 1930 a (very) young British explorer led a small team to explore the eastern coast of Greenland - an unknown expanse, mysterious even to the Inuits.
In this magnificently madcap adventure, SR pursues rumours of old pianos into all corners of Siberia: Arctic, Altai, Kamchatka, Princess Volkonsky in Irkutsk... She writes well, has a lovely... read more
A splendid guide to over a hundred museums not only in Tokyo but far beyond - in Kyoto, Hokkaido, Okinawa, Shikoku, Kyushu, etc. Includes museums of traditional arts and artist's houses, as... read more
Rejmer has collected personal accounts of survival in one of the most isolated countries on earth, under the brutally oppressive regime of Enver Hoxha. Touching, engrossing, harrowing...