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Region: Germany/Switzerland/Austria

Well illustrated guide to the C19th castles of Bavaria - Linderhof, Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemse and the King's House hunting lodge at Schachen.  Biographies of Ludwig and his architects complement the individual entries.  Large paperback.  88 pages. Text in German.

Region: Italy

Attractive colour pocket guide to the medieval Castle Roncolo (Schloss Runkelstein) in the Italian Tyrol.  The castle is richly adorned with C14th frescoes which feature prominently as colour photographs in this book.  Text in Italian.  Chronology and site plans.  Paperback.&n

Period: Industrial

Guide and gazetteer to all notable extant historic industrial sites - breweries, brick works, china clay works, telegraph stations, canals, ferries, explosive works, foundries, limekilns, military defences, tide mills, windmills, mines, lighthouses, quays, quarries, railways, viaducts, tollhouses

Region: Ireland

This guide presents what we know about the builders of Brú Na Bóinne - who they were, how they lived, and what compelled them to create their mighty monuments.  This is also the story of the tombs themselves - Knowth, Newgrange, and Dowth - how they were built, how their ceremonial use evolv

Region: Benelux

Extraordinarily thorough guide to the fortifications and warren of underground galleries beneath the C17th Citadel of Namur in Wallonia, Belgium otherwise known as the 'Termite Mound of Europe'.   Paperback.  116 pages.  Many colour illustrations and ground plans plus bibliogr

Region: Britain - S. England

Presents the findings of pre-construction excavations that identified evidence for medieval occupation, fishing and seafaring on the New Romney foreshore and sets these findings in the broader historical context of the town and its role as one of the Cinque Ports.  Large format paperback.&nb

Region: Central Asia

This guide describes the majority of the religious, historical, archaeological, and architectural monuments from along the Silk Road. Rock art drawings, intricate Islamic tile work, turquoise domes, minarets and the ancient barrows of steppe rulers are extensively featured and illustrated.

Region: Egypt

Full colour guide to the mortuary temple and tomb of the Queen Hatshepsut sited in the Valley of the Kings. 48 pages. Paperback. Many colour plates plus fol-out site plan. Condition as new. Cat No 1681

Region: Mediterranean

This book is the first comprehensive prosopography of a provincial region of the Byzantine empire throughout the entire period of its control by the Byzantine state (284-1355).