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Wonderful Pakistan! A Traveler's Notebook, Volume 4 (Paperback): Jamshed Namdar Khan Wonderful Pakistan! A Traveler's Notebook, Volume 4 (Paperback)
Jamshed Namdar Khan
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Royal Castle Warsaw - Director's Choice (Paperback): Wojciech Falkowski The Royal Castle Warsaw - Director's Choice (Paperback)
Wojciech Falkowski
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Royal Castle in Warsaw is one of the most important museums-residences in Poland. Its history and the provenance of its collections are extremely complex and symbolise the turbulent history of the country. The last king of Poland, Stanislaw August, created a great collection of works of art and commissioned the interior design in a classicist style. With the loss of independence by Poland, works of art and furnishings were transported to Russia, then later returned under the Treaty of Riga in 1921. Looted by the Germans during World War II, the Castle was blown up in 1944. The castle finished being rebuilt in 1984 and today is a museum of interiors and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The highlights of the Castle's collections include paintings by Rembrandt and Canaletto as well as valuable objects of decorative arts and historical memorabilia, showcased in this latest Director's Choice with the expertise of Director Wojciech Falkowski.

The British Television Location Guide (Paperback): Steve Clark, Shoba Vazirani The British Television Location Guide (Paperback)
Steve Clark, Shoba Vazirani
R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The British Television Location Guide reveals the actual settings of Britain's favourite television shows and tells readers how they can visit them. It is meticulously researched, right up to date and includes details of the real-life filming locations for all the top series including: Downton Abbey, Broadchurch, Call The Midwife, Midsomer Murders, Doc Martin, Endeavour, Doctor Who, Miss Marple, The Great British Bake-off, Foyle's War, Game of Thrones, The White Queen, Mr Selfridge and dozens more.

Wetaskiwin's Lost & Forgotten (Paperback): Kevin J Saucier Wetaskiwin's Lost & Forgotten (Paperback)
Kevin J Saucier
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Around The World Through My Lens (Paperback): Jyoti Jha Around The World Through My Lens (Paperback)
Jyoti Jha
R1,023 Discovery Miles 10 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Washington, D.C. - The Cubby 2023 Long Weekend Guide (Paperback): James Cubby Washington, D.C. - The Cubby 2023 Long Weekend Guide (Paperback)
James Cubby
R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Here, There & Everywhere - Legendary Locations for The Day Tripper (Paperback): Ruth McCartney Here, There & Everywhere - Legendary Locations for The Day Tripper (Paperback)
Ruth McCartney; Illustrated by Martin Nethercutt; Angie Mccartney
R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Let's tour Paris! - The must knows before you travel to Paris. Paris travel guide 2022 - 2023. (Paperback): J C Strom Let's tour Paris! - The must knows before you travel to Paris. Paris travel guide 2022 - 2023. (Paperback)
J C Strom
R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Jewish Wardrobe (Hardcover): Noam Bar'am-Ben Yossef The Jewish Wardrobe (Hardcover)
Noam Bar'am-Ben Yossef
R1,590 R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Save R326 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The fashion, history, and development of Jewish dress tells a story that spans the globe and crosses many cultures. In this colorful volume, Jewish communities--particularly those established for centuries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa--are revealed through their garments. Stunning photographs spin tales of family traditions and religious devotion, with a special section dedicated to jewelry worn by brides and grooms. Superb photographs of specific garments, with many close-up details, are juxtaposed with rare contextual photographs from the Israel Museum's archives to create a tapestry of a people revealed through textiles, costume, and images. More than 350 revelatory illustrations tell us how these precious articles of dress were originally worn.

Wonderful Pakistan! A Traveler's Notebook, Volume 3 (Paperback): Jamshed Namdar Khan Wonderful Pakistan! A Traveler's Notebook, Volume 3 (Paperback)
Jamshed Namdar Khan
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
NC State Fair 2019 (Paperback): Misc Rambling NC State Fair 2019 (Paperback)
Misc Rambling
R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tln Recap Magazine (Paperback): Lois Tarikabor Tln Recap Magazine (Paperback)
Lois Tarikabor
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rooms of One's Own - 50 Places That Made Literary History (Paperback): Adrian Mourby Rooms of One's Own - 50 Places That Made Literary History (Paperback)
Adrian Mourby 1
R278 R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Save R122 (44%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion.

Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination – from the Brontës’ Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh café where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter’s first adventures – Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature.

Rooms of One’s Own takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York and Bangkok and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature.

New York Bucket List Adventure Guide (Paperback): Casey Wood New York Bucket List Adventure Guide (Paperback)
Casey Wood
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Handover (Paperback): David M. Barnett The Handover (Paperback)
David M. Barnett
R280 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R24 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

An utterly charming and heart-warming love story and the perfect tonic for difficult times. Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers. Nate works the day shift, though he'd be more suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn't approve: how does he find it so easy to talk to strangers? For five minutes each day their shifts overlap at handover. He passes the torch over to Daisy - always with a smile on his face, and she asks him for a full report of the day, which he gives reluctantly. It's the only interaction they have... until mysterious things begin to happen at the museum. They soon discover they have a lot more in common than they realised... and their investigations uncover more than just the truth. Could they have feelings for one another?

Lincoln Castle Revealed - The Story of a Norman Powerhouse and its Anglo-Saxon Precursor (Hardcover): Jonathan Clark, Justin... Lincoln Castle Revealed - The Story of a Norman Powerhouse and its Anglo-Saxon Precursor (Hardcover)
Jonathan Clark, Justin Garner-Lahire, Cecily Spall, Nicola Toop
R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This highly-illustrated book reveals a brand-new story of the royal castle of Lincoln - how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the king or his aristocratic associates. Today, we have been left a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have come together to produce a revealing and accessible account of the story of Lincoln Castle; in doing so, we gain further insight into the history, culture and society of medieval England.

The Great Andaman - The Unknown Archipelago of India (Paperback): Rishabh Singh Singh The Great Andaman - The Unknown Archipelago of India (Paperback)
Rishabh Singh Singh
R168 Discovery Miles 1 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pilgrimage to Dollywood - A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee (Paperback): Helen Morales Pilgrimage to Dollywood - A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee (Paperback)
Helen Morales
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music's most likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral aesthete can't help cracking a smile or singing along with songs like "Jolene" and "9 to 5." More than a mere singer or actress, Parton is a true cultural phenomenon, immediately recognizable and beloved for her talent, tinkling laugh, and steel magnolia spirit. She is also the only female star to have her own themed amusement park: Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Every year thousands of fans flock to Dollywood to celebrate the icon, and Helen Morales is one of those fans. In Pilgrimage to Dollywood, Morales sets out to discover Parton's Tennessee. Her travels begin at the top celebrity pilgrimage site of Elvis Presley's Graceland, then take her to Loretta Lynn's ranch in Hurricane Mills; the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville; to Sevierville, Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; and finally to Pigeon Forge, home of the "Dolly Homecoming Parade," featuring the star herself as grand marshall. Morales's adventure allows her to compare the imaginary Tennessee of Parton's lyrics with the real Tennessee where the singer grew up, looking at essential connections between country music, the land, and a way of life. It's also a personal pilgrimage for Morales. Accompanied by her partner, Tony, and their nine-year-old daughter, Athena (who respectively prefer Mozart and Miley Cyrus), Morales, a recent transplant from England, seeks to understand America and American values through the celebrity sites and attractions of Tennessee. This celebration of Dolly and Americana is for anyone with an old country soul who relies on music to help understand the world, and it is guaranteed to make a Dolly Parton fan of anyone who has not yet fallen for her music or charisma.

Olympia - The Archaeological Site and the Museums (Paperback): Manolis Andronicos Olympia - The Archaeological Site and the Museums (Paperback)
Manolis Andronicos
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Olympia is part of the volume entitled "treasures of the Greek Museums" which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts, furnish details of the historical and cultural context of these masterpieces. The most important achaeological sites are also presented, with exclusive aerial photographs and other lavish illustrations.

Museum Basics - The International Handbook (Hardcover, 4th edition): Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine Museum Basics - The International Handbook (Hardcover, 4th edition)
Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine
R5,467 Discovery Miles 54 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the many changes that have taken place in museums around the world over the last six years. Drawing from a wide range of practical experience, the authors provide a basic guide to all aspects of museum work, from audience development and learning, through collections management and conservation, to museum management and forward planning. Museum Basics is organised on a modular basis, with over 100 units in eight sections. It can be used both as a reference work to assist day-to-day museum management, and as the key textbook for pre-service and in-service museum training programmes, where it can be supplemented by case studies, project work and group discussion. This edition includes over 100 diagrams to support the text, as well as a glossary, sources of information and support and a select bibliography. Museum Basics is also supported by its own companion website, which provides a wide range of additional resources for readers. Museum Basics aims to help the museum practitioner keep up to date with new thinking about the function of museums and their relationships with the communities they serve. The training materials provided within the book are also suitable for pre-service and in-service students who wish to gain a full understanding of work in a museum.

Travel Tales - Wild Animals (Paperback): Michael. Brein Travel Tales - Wild Animals (Paperback)
Michael. Brein
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Surrounded by Art - The Julius Baer Art Collection (Hardcover): Barbara Staubli, Barbara Hatebur Surrounded by Art - The Julius Baer Art Collection (Hardcover)
Barbara Staubli, Barbara Hatebur
R2,473 R1,578 Discovery Miles 15 780 Save R895 (36%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Julius Baer, established in Zurich in 1890, is the leading Swiss wealth management group and an icon of Swiss banking tradition. For nearly as long, the founder family has been engaged in supporting visual and performing arts and in 1981, on the initiative of Hans J. Bar (1927-2011), the company began to build its own collection of contemporary art, guided by a firm belief that art in a business environment enhances the culture of discussion and is inspirational to employees and clients alike. Today, the Julius Baer Art Collection comprises more than 5,000 works in a range of media painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and video-by Swiss artists, internationally renowned ones as well as emerging talents. This book offers a survey of the collection that is on rotating display at the bank's offices around the world and highlights its origins and development over the past four decades. Artistic positions of 35 contemporary Swiss artists, such as John M Armleder, Silvia Bachli, Miriam Cahn, Lutz & Guggisberg, Markus Raetz, Shirana Shahbazi, and Roman Signer, are introduced through brief texts and illustrated with some 300 works from the collection.

Lord Miles in Afghanistan (Paperback): Miles Routledge Lord Miles in Afghanistan (Paperback)
Miles Routledge
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Qatar Travel Guide - An essential guide book for visiting Doha, Qatar for the World Cup, 2022. (Paperback): Christopher Nelson Qatar Travel Guide - An essential guide book for visiting Doha, Qatar for the World Cup, 2022. (Paperback)
Christopher Nelson
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn (Paperback): Sarah Morris, Natalie Grueninger In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn (Paperback)
Sarah Morris, Natalie Grueninger 1
R584 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Follow in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn from Hever Castle, to Richmond Palace and ultimately to the Tower of London. On the morning of 19 May 1536, a French blade stilled the heart of an English queen. Her name was Anne Boleyn and her story has made an indelible mark on history. This book will take you through stately homes, castles, chapels and artefacts with a connection to Anne. Explore Hever Castle, Anne's childhood home where two breathtaking Books of Hours both signed and inscribed by Anne Boleyn herself are housed; visit Thornbury Castle where Henry VIII and Anne stayed during their 1535 royal progress and see the octagonal bedchamber where they slept; stand in the very room in Windsor Castle where Anne was made Marquis of Pembroke. Each location is covered by an accessible and informative narrative, which unearths the untold stories and documents the artefacts. Accompanied by an extensive range of images, including photographs, floor plans and sketches, this book brings the sixteenth century vividly to life - and takes you on your own personal and compelling journey in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn.

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