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Cecilie Gasseholm
During her time as a bookseller with us, Cecilie has worked closely with materials relating to travel and exploration, particularly polar exploration and women travellers. In this interview, she...
Chinese Myths and Folklore with Dr Matt Wills
Handcrafted Papercuts by Women in ChinaOur Asia specialist Dr Matt discusses Myths and Folklore, an album of beautifully handcrafted papercuts made by Chinese students at the Ai Dao Women's Bible...
Imperial Power and Maoist Tourism: With Dr Matthew Wills
Peter Harrington's Asia specialist, Dr Matt Wills, introduces two items which each tell a story about China's history, from Imperial philosophy to Maoist leisure.
A Canadian Clergyman in Shanghai
China specialist Dr Matthew Wills introduces us to a memoir of early 20th century Shanghai through the eyes of a Canadian ex-pat. It has been an exciting time for China-related books at Peter...
Democratic Depravity: Curt Moreck’s Berlin
By Andy Stewart MacKay After the horrors of the Great War, “All values were changed” wrote the novelist Stefan Zweig of 1920s Berlin; the city “transformed into the Babylon of the world”. It wasn’t...
Science fact and science fiction: Part I
In a recent interview, Margaret Atwood speculated that the world we currently live in is not a million light years away from the dystopias such as those we might find in her fiction. Her MaddAddam...
Nightingales and Roses: the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Perhaps one of the best-known, best-loved and most-illustrated poems in the English language, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a unique publishing phenomenon. Translated (or, as Fitzgerald put it,...
Portrait of a Little-Known Artist: Alexandre Antoine Girardot
Virtually unknown but highly-talented, first generation French Orientalist painter Alexandre Antoine Girardot (1815–c.1877) has left but few traces of what must have been an unusual and adventurous...
A Voyage Round the World
In August of 1706, William Funnell, the First Mate on the ship St. George, landed in England after a three-year voyage around the world. Organised by Captain William Dampier, the goal of this...
The Great Waterless Desert
The beautiful design on the cover of this book, a first edition of Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. Scully, is not printed on a dust jacket, but applied directly to the cloth binding. While it's...
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