Baedeker; the most famous and cherished travel brand in the world is now adding this exciting new title to its innovative series. This superb full-colour, illustrated guide features 3D laminated cut-outs to show you the key sights in perspective and a large, fully-indexed, pull-out map. Additional d[...]
Baedeker is proud to announce this brand new edition of Berlin. This superb full-colour, illustrated guide features 3D laminated cut-outs to show you the key sights in perspective and a large, fully-indexed, pull-out map. Additional detailed maps and plans can also be found throughout the guide, cle[...]
Baedeker; the most famous and cherished travel brand in the world is proud to announce the addition of this exciting new title to its innovative series. Jordan: one of the world's oldest cultures. Explore splendid desert castles, gaze in awe at the haunting wilderness of Wadi Rum, or bathe in the re[...]
During the final decades of the 19th century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals - "la decadence". Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. "A Baedeker of Dec[...]
This book was first published in 1947 with the subtitle "Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, and England," and had been out of print for many years. It provides an informative and vivid account if these countries of postwar Europe.
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Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications, and has included a[...]
Posthumously launched as the "electric-age Blake", Mina Loy's futurist techniques were unlike anything British critics had seen before; her subjects - sex, parturitiion, prostitution, suicide, addiction, retardation - were considered shocking even by some modernists. Updating and correcting the earl[...]
This guide includes nearly a hundred map, many of them colour and fold-out! A comprehensive travel guide to England, Wales and Scotland in the interwar period, this edition is distinguished for its reported association with the Luftwaffe attacks known as the 'Baedeker Blitz' in 1942, during which Ex[...]