Local History
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People of the Moonshell
American Travellers Press (US)£19.99| /With their sensitive eye for natural beauties, the Indians called their river The Moonshell. When the French explorers first poled up its waters, t...
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Persian Gulf -- The Rise of the Gulf Arabs
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£33.50| /The history of the Persian Gulf during the 18th century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned scholar W...
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Philadelphia Area Cemeteries
Schiffer£11.99| /Tour the cemeteries of Pennsylvania's three original counties (Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester--"The Birthplace of America"). This fascinating ...
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Philip Timms' Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£40.99| /In Philip Timms' Vancouver, the city's "golden age" has been captured with spirit and style by one of British Columbia's foremost photographers. Ph...
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Quantico
Schiffer£36.99| /Learn Quantico, Virginia's history from the 1500s to the early 2000s. More than 300 images trace this sleepy town's evolution where the United Stat...
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Railways Studios
Te Papa Press£53.99| /On the 100th anniversary of its creation, this book celebrates Railways Studios - the design studio of the New Zealand Railways - and its role in h...
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Rancho de las Golondrinas
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /An account of the early history of El Rancho de las Golondrinas from the ranch's beginnings to its establishment as a living history museum, includ...
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Rebel Women of the West Coast
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women--driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and action...
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Rediscovering the Prairies
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with ...
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Regional Integration in Early Modern Scandinavia
Odense University Press (DK)£28.00| /In the Nordic countries regions and regionalism have played a central role in politics, administration, economic and cultural life for a long time....
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Reminiscences of Manchester
Empire Publications (UK)£11.95| /Written over the course of his lifetime, Louis Hayes' memoirs of Manchester life, "Reminiscences of Manchester" is an evocative memoir of the city'...
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Rocky Mountain Madness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters celebrates the capricious antics that...
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San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
Linden Publishing (US)£15.99| /With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim me...
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San Joaquin
Linden Publishing (US)£25.99| /While nearly all of America's major rivers have been compromised, few have been so misused as the San Joaquin. In its comparatively brief history, ...
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San Juan Bautista
Linden Publishing (US)£19.99| /A century ago, San Juan Bautista was the hub of Northern California, a crossroads where, over the years, you would have encountered gentle Mutsune ...
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Savannah Cemeteries
Schiffer£18.99| /The best selling novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has drawn hordes to the city, specifically to its best-known cemetery, Bonaventure. ...
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Site of Convergence
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /17 September 2011 will mark 10 years exactly since the formal opening of the Monash University Prato Centre, Monash Universitys teaching and resear...
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Slumach's Gold
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...
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Sooner Or Later
Clear Light Publishers (US)£15.99| /This colourful chronicle of pioneering experience emerges from Virginia Stumbough's priceless collection of family letters, diaries, scrapbooks, al...
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Stars of the New Jersey Shore
Schiffer£18.99| /In the pre-Hollywood era, theatrical stars flocked to the New Jersey coast to escape the eastern cities' sweltering heat. After performing from Sep...
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Strange Days
NeWest Press (CA)£16.99| /The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada's history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that def...
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Success Stories
Brash Publishing Corporation (CA)£23.99| /An amazing and inspiring collection of awesome success stories, including Tim Hortons coffee shops co-founder Ron Joyce and billionaire businessman...
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Takitimu
Oratia Books£61.99| /Takitimu is one of the great tribal histories in the New Zealand literary canon. It tells of the Ngati Kahungunu people tangata whenua of Hawkes...
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The Alberta Supreme Court at 100
University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan re...
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The Best of Times on the Chesapeake Bay
Schiffer£18.99| /Today, the Chesapeake Bay watermen's way of life is under pressure to survive. Captain Larry Simns has worked as a commercial fisherman in the wate...
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The Calgary Stampede
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£25.99| /By 1912 the large-scale cowboy ranches of the Old West had been disappearing for years and the Calgary Stampede -- along with other exhibitions, li...
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The Columbia
Schiffer£13.99| /Books have been written about the highway that Samuel C. Lancaster built. This is the book that he wrote. Lancaster is known to all who have studie...
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The Haitian Revolution
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array ...
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The Lesser Known
Great Plains Publications£23.99| /"Manitobas history is one of being carved. Ice sculpted the land before nomadic first people pressed trails across it. Southern First Nations dug ...
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The Lost Lemon Mine
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors ...
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The Prairie West: Historical Readings
University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /The Prairie West presents thirty-five articles on key topics in the history of prairie Canada. The second edition, which includes new topics and re...
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The Rainbow Chasers
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer -- the next title in TouchWood's Classics West series -- tells the story of a hard-won wilderness hom...
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The Roaring '20s at the Jersey Shore
Schiffer£22.99| /Learn the history and look at emerging tourism during the 1920s in New Jersey, through 276 postcards, vintage photographs, and fascinating accounts...
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The University of Alberta Library
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£15.99| /Although its mission and centrality to teaching and research remain fundamentally unchanged, the University of Alberta Library of today bears scant...
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The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay
Tidewater-Cornell Maritime£31.99| /"I must have presented a strange and humorous sight to him as I carefully approached on the rickety pier, arms slightly extended for balance. Camer...
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These Hamptons
Schiffer£45.99| /In over 180 vivid color photos, this beautiful book provides a photographic exploration of the lifestyles and landscape of Long Island's famed East...
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