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Rising Ground - A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
Why do we react so strongly to certain places? Why do layers of mythology build up around particular features in the landscape? When Philip Marsden moved to a remote creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to begin exploring these questions, prompting a ...Show more
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the ...Show more
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy by Philip Marsden
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun. On one of Addis Ababa's main roundabouts today sits a huge recently installed mortar. This is a replica of 'Sevastopol', ...Show more
The Chains of Heaven - An Ethiopian Romance by Philip Marsden
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago. 'Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a wider purpose to our life, it is to understand the world, to seek out it ...Show more
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians by Philip Marsden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity ...Show more
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