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  • Chastellart
    Gavin Bowd
    St Andrews, 1563. In a town gripped by Reformation, a baying crowd awaits the execution of Pierre de Chastellart, a French Huguenot poet. From afar, Mary Queen of Scots watches his tortured figure declaim Ronsard’s ’Hymn to Death’. But why is the young man being publicly beheaded for high treason? This lyrical and violent novel follows Chastellart and Mary between a France desc...
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    15,48 €

  • Triumph Street, Bucharest
    Dov Hoenig / Gavin Bowd
    Bucharest, before and during World War II, where Bernard Davidescou lives with his parents and his older brother on Triumph Street, in the middle of a courtyard block inhabited by a dozen Jewish families and two Christian ones. When Romania, under General Ion Antonescu’s dictatorship, allies itself with Hitler and invades the USSR, the Jews in Bucharest face the threat of being...
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    12,68 €

  • Impure and Worldly Geography
    Daniel Clayton / Gavin Bowd
    By re-examining French geographer Pierre Gourou’s work, this book highlights the significant (yet only partially understood) role he played in shaping how the tropical world was viewed during the 20th century. It does so by connecting Gourou to the idea of ’tropicality’ - a discourse which constructs ’the tropics’ as the West’s environmental Other. ...
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    79,61 €