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Guinness World Records 2000: Millennium Edition
by Guinness Media, Inc.
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 2000
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN
- 9781892051004
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£3.79
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The cover has suffered a bit, with a 5.5 cm tear along the lower rear part of the spine, and many other chips and impacts. The pages are all clean and brightly colored. Although there is no staining, the pages do give the impression that they had been exposed to a bit of moisture at some point… Read more
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The Making of Man
by Calverton, V. F.
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1931
- Condition
- Very Good-
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£5.17
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No dust jacket. Little wear, red cloth cover faded over the spine, showing mild shelf-wear. pages are clean and tight. A collection of 45 essays on various aspects of anthropology. State of the art 90 years ago.
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North of South
by Naipaul, Shiva
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1980
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780140188264
- Item Price
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£4.31
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Very little wear. No spine creases. Pages are clean, tight and bright. Owner's name inside the front cover, in two places. The author traveled to Africa in the 1970s. visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. His report is described as "intimate, comic and controversial."
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An Introduction to Western Civilization
by Hedger, George A., Ed.
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1949
- Condition
- Good
- Item Price
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£4.31
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No dust jacket. Red cloth cover shows wear and fading. Owner's name inside front cover. Pages are clean and tight, with scattered underlining and highlighting. This book will ship at three pounds or more. Excess shipping cost is included in the list price.
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The Politics of Righteousness
by Aho, James A.
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1995
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN
- 9780295974941
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£13.81
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Trade paperback. Very little wear. An investigation into the hate groups of Northern Idaho, before the lawsuits.
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The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
by Mowat, Farley
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1971
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN
- 9780771065873
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£3.96
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A little wear at the corners and some discoloration to the cover. Owner's name on the title page. A few shallow creases on the spine; pages are clean, tight and unmarked. A true story of an attempt to sail the seas in the worst boat in the world. Illustrated.
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Liners, Tankers & Merchant Ships
by Jackson, Robert
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN
- 9780760730935
- Item Price
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£3.70
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A solid, compact book with very little wear. Offers drawings of 300 non-military ships from ancient times to the present. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked.
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Descartes Selections
by Eaton, Ralph M., Ed.
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1955
- Condition
- Good+
- Item Price
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£6.04
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Some wear at the corners and edges. Divided into three sections: 1) Scientific Method and the Criticism of Knowledge; 2) Metaphysics, Cosmology and Physics; and 3) Physiology, Psychology, Ethics. There is a fair amount of underlining in the introduction, and none beyond. Pages are tight and intact, and there are no spine creases. Owner's name on… Read more
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Practicing History
by Tuchman, Barbara W.
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1982
- Edition
- First Ballantine Books Trade Edition
- ISBN
- 9780345303639
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£3.96
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Very little wear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Spine lacks creases. Cover shows a very slight amount of shelf-wear. Sticker on the lower part of the spine. Over 30 essays on history and the chronicling of the same.
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"1885": The Reil Rebellion
by Anderson, Frank
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1955
- Condition
- Good-
- Item Price
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£2.75
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Some wear. A small, stapled book of 79 pages. Owner's name and a coffee stain on the title page, otherwise pages are clean and tight, with many illustrations and maps. Front cover has a couple of creases running top to bottom.
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£2.75

Glimpses into Nova Scotia History
by Fergusson, Bruce and William Pope
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Seventh Printing
- ISBN
- 9780889990319
- Item Price
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£4.83
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Little wear. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. Many illustrations.
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Cities of Gold
by Preston, Douglas
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1993
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN
- 9780671869908
- Item Price
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£5.60
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Trade paperback. Small amount of wear at the lower corners. Remains of a price sticker on the back. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The spine is uncreased. This is the account of two men's adventure to retrace the steps of Coronado through the American southwest. They travelled as Coronado would have, on horseback,… Read more
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Gandhi
by Fischer, Louis
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1954
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN
- 9780451621429
- Item Price
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£2.58
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Minimal wear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Although the date in the book is 1954, this is the 21st printing, and it has an ISBN, which means it was likely printed in the 1970s or later. Owner's name inside front cover.
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The Road from Coorain
by Conway, Jill Ker
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1989
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780679724360
- Item Price
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£3.70
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Trade paperback. Very little wear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked, spine is without creases. Owner's name inside front cover. The story of a young girl's life growing up on an Australian sheep farm to her departure for America.
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Autobiography of a Face
by Grealy, Lucy
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780060976736
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£3.45
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A memoir of a young woman who had the hard job as a child of dealing with cancer and the even harder job of dealing with people after her cancer was removed, along with a big part of her jaw. Very little wear. Owner's name inside front cover.
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Homestead
by Kirkpatrick, Jane
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780892882816
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£4.91
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Trade paperback. A memoir about modern-day homesteaders, living the "simple life", albeit a simple life with cars and a plane. Owner's name inside front cover and a small sticker on the lower part of the spine. Pages are clean, tight and bright, and the spine lacks creases.
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£4.91

Written by Herself, Volume II
by Conway, Jill Ker, Ed.
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780679751090
- Item Price
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£4.48
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Very little wear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's name inside front cover. Contains fourteen excerpts from longer autobiographical works by women writers.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Douglass, Frederick
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN
- 9781593083571
- Item Price
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£6.81
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Very little wear to book or jacket. Barnes and Noble reprint, originally published in 1845.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
by Boswell, James
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1946
- Condition
- Good+
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£8.63
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No dust jacket. Deckle-edged pages are clean and unmarked. Owner's name inside front cover. Some small stains to the page ends do not intrude upon the pages. Cover shows mild wear and small areas of discoloration. Many color illustrations. Will ship at two pounds or more, excess shipping cost is included in the list… Read more
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Aaron Burr
by Lomask, Milton
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- Turtleman Books
- Published
- 1979
- Condition
- Good+
- Item Price
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£6.90
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Trade paperback. The first of two biographies about Burr by this author. I assume it to be a book club edition by the lack of a bar code or ISBN. Shows some wear, including spine creases, a crease on the front cover, and some chips at the edges and corners. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked.
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