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Product Description: “Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous.” —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called “the planned economy,” which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match...read more
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9781555976040 | Original edition (Graywolf Pr, February 14, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own .

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The author offers a sensitive, loving tribute to reading, arguing that his favorite books have created his identity, from The Wind in the Willows to the Narnia Chronicles and The Little House on the Prairie. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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9780312421847 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, December 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author offers a sensitive, loving tribute to reading, arguing that his favorite books have created his identity, from The Wind in the Willows to the Narnia Chronicles and The Little House on the Prairie.

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The author offers a sensitive, loving tribute to reading, arguing that his favorite books have created his identity, from The Wind in the Willows to the Narnia Chronicles. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780805072150 | Metropolitan Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author recounts how the books he read as a child formed the person he is now, discussing how the stories he read allowed him an escape, shifted the boundaries of language, and stretched the imagination.

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Product Description: Travel is no longer a luxury and not always an entertainment. Many journeys need to be made‹to get home or away from an enemy, to work, to find a last resting place, or because someone has told you to go. This issue of Granta is about such journeys; you might call it necessary travel writing, with Decca Aitkenhead: looking for cheap sex and drugs; Manuel Bauer: a child¹s escape over the Himalayas; Isabel Hilton: what have they done to Beijing?; Ian Jack: the train crash that stopped Britain; Ryszrd Kapuscinski: in the forests of Cameroon; Ian McEwan: on the retreat to Dunkirk, 1940; John Ryle: the last Emperor makes his last journey; Dayanita Singh: inside a sanctuary for girls in Benares; Simon Winchester: how Britain and the US made a people homeless; plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin at home, revealed by James Campbell...read more
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9781929001033 | Granta Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Travel is no longer a luxury and not always an entertainment.

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Examines the British obsession with polar exploration, details the danger and mystery that surrounded these distant, unconquered places, and looks into the minds of various explorers as they headed to the North and South Poles
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9780312174422 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 1997, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Examines the British obsession with polar exploration, details the danger and mystery that surrounded these distant, unconquered places, and looks into the minds of various explorers as they headed to the North and South Poles
9780788197796 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1997, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780312220815 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 30, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Examines the British obsession with polar exploration, details the danger and mystery that surrounded these distant, unconquered places, and looks into the minds of various explorers as they headed to the North and South Poles

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Product Description: With contributions from both sides of the science/humanities divide, this is a quirky collection of essays on science and the imagination. It springs from the Science Museum's construction of Charles Babbage's "difference engine", the mechanical computer which he designed in the 1830s but never built...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Francis Spufford (editor) and Jenny Uglow (editor)
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9780571172436 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: With contributions from both sides of the science/humanities divide, this is a quirky collection of essays on science and the imagination.

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