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1	Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilledthe Promise of Democracy more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist Linklater's fascinating, provocative and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures, is explained in this volume that also shows how it has shaped the culture and country. 30 illustrations. 5 maps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist With the same mix of compelling narrative history and captivating historical argument that made his previous book, "Measuring America," such a success, Andro Linklater relates in fascinating detail how, the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has have ever since been central to the American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction during the Revolutionary War era. In this modern biography of the greatest traitor--and one of the most colorful characters--in American history, Linklater examines the extraordinary double life of Wilkinson. see all copies from $15.75! new only from $19.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Code of Love more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist While imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp, RAF officer Donald Hill kept a journal of the indignities he suffered in a complex, almost unbreakable code. Drawing on this remarkable document, Linklater offers the compelling story of Hill and his fiancee, two real-life lovers caught in the tumultuous winds of war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Wild people more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist To fulfil the criteria of Andro Linklater's original assignment, the Iban people of Sarawak were supposed to be noble, bare-breasted savages in dugout canoes, practising age-old rituals - "primitive" enough to be included in a project called "Wild People of the Earth", initiated by Time-Life Books. In the event, the Iban simply wouldn't do. They ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Code of Love: An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and War more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| SVS
7	Wild People: Travels with Borneo's Head-Hunters more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Compton MacKenzie: A Life more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions \| SVS
9	Amazing Maisie and the cold porridge brigade more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist A young girl from the African town of Timbuktu buys a talking camel and together they enter the Christmas Camel Race and beat the Wicked Wallah Wellibhut at his own game. see all copies from $2.48! first editions
10	The Black Watch : the history of the Royal Highland Regiment more books like this by Eric Linklater, Andro Linklater add to wishlist see all copies from $21.00! first editions
11	Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History more books like this by Andro Linklater, Alan Sklar (Read by) add to wishlist How we ultimately gained the American Customary System-the last traditional system in the world-and how Gunter's chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. Sagely argued and ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $23.61! \| SVS
12	Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped Then Hiunited States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy more books like this by Andro Linklater, Alan Sklar (Read by) add to wishlist How we ultimately gained the American Customary System-the last traditional system in the world-and how Gunter's chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. Sagely argued and ... see all copies from $49.68! new only from $49.68! \| SVS
13	Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy more books like this by Andrew Linklater, Andro Linklater add to wishlist see all copies from $31.95! new only from $40.00!
14	Shetland Breeds: Lessons in Husbandry and History more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist see all copies from $28.50! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	The code of love : a true story more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist The Code of Love is Andro Linklater's portrait of a woman's search, for over fifty years, to discover the truth about the man to whom she devoted her life. In the spring of 1939, Pamela Kirrage, headstrong and beautiful, met Donald Hill, a handsome RAF pilot. After a golden summer of courtship, they became engaged. In September, with Britain now ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Compton MacKenzie more books like this by Andro Linklater add to wishlist The life of Compton Mackenzie, author of "Sinister Street" and "Whiskey Galore". He came from an acting family, became a best-selling writer, a master-spy in Greece, a Roman Catholic convert, a buyer of islands and a Scottish Nationalist. The author's father was a close friend of Mackenzie. see all copies from $5.00!
17 view cover	An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater add to wishlist The first modern biography of the greatest traitor--and one of the most colorful characters--in American history. Patriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army, and privy to the Conway cabal to oust ... see all copies from $15.00!

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