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 | In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream
Eric Dregni’s great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that—mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries—it is now the ...
Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press
| $13.00 - $22.95
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 | The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic saga...
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
| $8.31
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 | Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s record of his extraordinary journey through the parched “Empty Quarter” of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—“the machines, the ca...
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
| $8.37
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 | Blueberry Summers: Growing Up at the Lake
"I would begin thinking about summer on our lake as early as Easter. Yes, it was our lake, not just the lake." In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his rob...
Manufacturer: Borealis Books
| $11.95 - $19.95
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 | Splendid Swedish Recipes
This inexpensive, index card size spiral-bound recipe book features over 100 Swedish recipes. Makes a great gift or "stocking stuffer" for friends and relatives. The author came to America from Sweden in 1961.
Manufacturer: Penfield Press
| $6.95
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 | Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw...
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
| $21.95 - $22.00
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 | Racundra's First Cruise
This new edition of Racundra’s First Cruise includes the original maps, text and photos from the 1923 first edition, of which only 1500 copies were printed. The book also contains a detailed introduction detailing Ransome’s Baltic s...
Manufacturer: Wiley
| $16.07 - $29.95
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 | The Alvar Aalto Guide
Alvar Aalto, the Finnish-born, influential protagonist of the Modern Movement, is internationally renowned for his elegant manipulation?of form, light, and material, as well as his rich synthesis of vernacular,?historical, and organic references. ??<...
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
| $14.95 - $24.95
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 | Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word (McLellan Books)
If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might put it, his most "painfully enjoyable," it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal;...
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
| $10.01 - $17.50
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