wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Off Course
ISBN: 9780955848001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The writer explores the Mediterranean island of Corsica but his is no ordinary journey. Michael Jenner travels in the mind as well as on the map. Meeting a mixed bunch of characters along the way, he has several encounters with that famous Corsican, Napoleon Bonaparte. But his finest hour comes during a short walk with fellow Bloomsbury resident Virginia Woolf, to a lighthouse naturally. He has much to say on the phenomenon of travel: why we do it and why some of us simply can't stop writing about it.
The writer explores the Mediterranean island of Corsica but his is no ordinary journey. Michael Jenner travels in the mind as well as on the map. Meet...
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103,66 zł |
Dream of A Summer Night
ISBN: 9780955848032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Young Tom has been dumped by his parents on his great-uncle Percy in Oxford for the summer. The boy goes missing. In steps a toy bear called Bodley. The story revolves around the bond between Bodley and Bloomsbury, bear-in-residence in the British Museum. The plot is driven by the search for a highly important lost manuscript. A streetwise hero emerges in Russell Rat. Lives are at risk as the two bears seek refuge back in Oxford. Here, an inspired Bloomsbury finally grasps the meaning of everything, and Bodley gets to find out who he really is. The story balances on the cusp where childhood...
Young Tom has been dumped by his parents on his great-uncle Percy in Oxford for the summer. The boy goes missing. In steps a toy bear called Bodley. T...
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126,18 zł |
Farthing Abbey
ISBN: 9780955848018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gervase and Ophelia Lloyd-Beauchamp inherit Farthing Abbey, a long neglected estate in a mellow English setting, and with it a chance to redeem a flawed marriage. But the old pile must pay its way. A curious crew of media folk comes down for the weekend: Events take a startling turn. An erotic encounter in the Temple of Venus, a broody scene in the Chinese Boudoir. A drunken repast in the Privy Parlour, fights in the Long Gallery, a body left for dead in the Orangery. Tragedy lurks beneath the waters of the Scenic Lake. Come morning, an artist finds his muse and a lady fondly imagines her...
Gervase and Ophelia Lloyd-Beauchamp inherit Farthing Abbey, a long neglected estate in a mellow English setting, and with it a chance to redeem a flaw...
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136,07 zł |
Conundrum's Book
ISBN: 9780955848025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Henri, a young travel photographer with a big identity problem plays the sorcerer's apprentice to Conundrum, a fiendishly clever wordsmith and rogue magus promising ultimate knowledge of a dangerous sort. Their quest takes them on a journey of high adventure from Wales and London via Catalonia, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Switzerland, Paris, Japan and Madeira to a dramatic finale on the rugged cliffs at the western extremity of the Algarve. But the secret lurking at the end of Southend Pier might after all be the key to the Holy Grail that is the dark mystery of Conundrum's Book. Or does the answer...
Henri, a young travel photographer with a big identity problem plays the sorcerer's apprentice to Conundrum, a fiendishly clever wordsmith and rogue m...
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155,86 zł |
Mrs Mulroony's Fly-away French Bloomers
ISBN: 9780955848049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The moody London weather causes a massive mix up as two large items of underwear go missing. Their owners, world famous Italian opera singer Signore Mangiatutto and a certain Mrs Mulroony from Walthamstow, can only look on as their personal destinies along with their bloomers go blowing in the wind.
The moody London weather causes a massive mix up as two large items of underwear go missing. Their owners, world famous Italian opera singer Signore M...
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51,95 zł |
The Ugly Bugly Monster
ISBN: 9798767543953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,17 zł |
Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language
ISBN: 9781904808374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This new edition of Jenner's classic "Handbook of the Cornish Language" appears more than a century after the book's first publication. Now that the Cornish Revival has weathered many storms, it is well worth making Jenner's ground-breaking work available again, copies of the 1904 edition having become rare and expensive. The book is not a mere facsimile. It contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), to assist the modern reader in understanding exactly which sounds Jenner was recommending. It also includes three articles he published between 1873 and 1877,...
This new edition of Jenner's classic "Handbook of the Cornish Language" appears more than a century after the book's first publication. Now that the C...
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130,16 zł |