The The Gambia
ISBN: 9781804690611 / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,87 zł |
La Palma Road Map 1:40 000
ISBN: 9783707904772 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,19 zł |
Nigeria - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
ISBN: 9781857336290 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with an internal market of 150 million people and an economy growing at around 8 percent a year, is potentially Africa's next powerhouse. It is nearly one and a half times the size of Texas, with a landmass varying from sandy beaches and tropical jungles, to plains, mountains, and desert. This important West African nation is made up of 250 culturally distinct ethno-linguistic groups. The largest communities are the Hausa in the north, rooted in the Islamic city-states of the famed trans-Saharan trade routes; the Yoruba of the southwest, where...
Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with an internal market of 150 million people and an economy growing at around 8 percent a year, is poten...
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55,79 zł |
Looking For Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
ISBN: 9781619020078 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria -- a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn't return for several years. Recently, she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for.
Saro-Wiwa travels from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit... Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria -- a country she viewed as an annoying p...
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77,09 zł |
Cry of the Outcast
ISBN: 9780987953704 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,96 zł |
Know Your Country and Beyond
ISBN: 9789788431077 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author delivered a series of lectures in secondary schools in the Kurfi Local Government Area of Katsina State, Nigeria, seeking to provide a factual representation of the area and beyond. Topics are covered such as the size, creation and establishment of an area; land area; physical features; agriculture and natural resources; administration, history, and political economy. The chapters cover Kurfi, Katsina State, Nigeria, African, and the World, seeking to give a national, continental and world perspective.
The author delivered a series of lectures in secondary schools in the Kurfi Local Government Area of Katsina State, Nigeria, seeking to provide a fact...
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195,76 zł |
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
ISBN: 9781847083319 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An irreverent travel guide to Nigeria, a country which 'gets fewer voluntary visitors than the moon' - by the daughter of Ken Saro Wiwa.
An irreverent travel guide to Nigeria, a country which 'gets fewer voluntary visitors than the moon' - by the daughter of Ken Saro Wiwa.
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58,97 zł |
I Speak of Ghana
ISBN: 9781492169048 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's a rare person who can be both funny and wise at the same time. Yet that is exactly the way to describe Nana Awere Damoah's writings in this small but compelling short story collection about contemporary life in Ghana. In it the reader will find Ghanaman in traffic, or Ghanawoman paying the corrupt policeman. Either way, one knows these are the words of a master story teller who handily blurs the lines between laughing so hard it makes one cry, or crying so hard it makes one laugh. I Speak of Ghana is an honest journey of deft oration replete with the sounds (from the harmonious... It's a rare person who can be both funny and wise at the same time. Yet that is exactly the way to describe Nana Awere Damoah's writings in this sm... |
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67,59 zł |
Travels in West Africa
ISBN: 9781492322573 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,41 zł |
Voodoo, Slaves and White Man's Graves: West Africa and the End of Days
ISBN: 9781493669127 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crammed into battered buses and less than road worthy bush taxis, or hanging on to the back of a series of pollution spewing mopeds, Tom Coote journeys along the lush but disease ridden Slave Coast of West Africa and then up through the Saharan trade routes into the environmentally devastated dust lands of the Sahel. Travelling through Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali - some of the poorest and least developed countries in the world - we find ourselves amidst a battleground of 'end of days' ideologies. Dealing with such themes as freedom and slavery, the resurgence of superstition and...
Crammed into battered buses and less than road worthy bush taxis, or hanging on to the back of a series of pollution spewing mopeds, Tom Coote journey...
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58,58 zł |
African Summer: The Story of a Fish out of Water
ISBN: 9781482731064 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stuck like a tongue in the mouth of Senegal, the tiny country of the Gambia is one of those places the world forgets until the president puts down a coup - but as Andrew Gilman discovered one hot summer, even the craziest dictator can be nice at his own birthday party. Anything's possible in a land where you can search for dragons by day and sip tea with silversmiths by night, or meet a blacksmith who moonlights as a sorcerer. Signing up for a seven-week trip, Andrew never thought Gambian life might mean knife-wielding maniacs and hungry crocodiles, swimming in hippo-infested waters or barely...
Stuck like a tongue in the mouth of Senegal, the tiny country of the Gambia is one of those places the world forgets until the president puts down a c...
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49,37 zł |
A Kind of Homecoming
ISBN: 9781480457690 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernized black man who journeys to Africa in search of his roots and discovers a vibrant and extraordinary society on the verge of monumental change In the early 1960s acclaimed British Guianese author E. R. Braithwaite embarked on a pilgrimage to the West African countries of Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and across Sierra Leone just as the emerging nation was preparing to declare its independence. What Braithwaite discovered was a world vastly different from the staid, firmly established British society in...
From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernized black man who journeys to Africa in search of his r...
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103,03 zł |
To Timbuktu, (and back again)
ISBN: 9781499355543 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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30,84 zł |
My Africa, My Africa: A Spiritual Journey and Cultural Exploration
ISBN: 9781499505467 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A talented young man who was down on his luck moves to West Africa to find opportunity and ends up finding himself. This first generation Nigerian American goes on a spiritual journey to Nigeria to connect with his family and African heritage. 'My Africa, My Africa' is the culturally explorative chronicle of a once in a lifetime experience that anyone with a mixed cultural background can relate to. This is a funny and insightful story of self realization.
A talented young man who was down on his luck moves to West Africa to find opportunity and ends up finding himself. This first generation Nigerian Ame...
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44,87 zł |
Burkina Phrasebook
ISBN: 9781503085091 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. West Africa comprises the sixteen countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. This area boasts hundreds of language groups who all share a similar culture.
If you plan to travel or work in Burkina Faso, this book will help. The book contains parallel phrases in the most commonly encountered languages:
... West Africa comprises the sixteen countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Maur...
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113,86 zł |
Cape Verde Travel Guide: Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
ISBN: 9781503302983 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Located in the Atlantic Ocean, about 500 km off the coast of Senegal and Mauritania in Western Africa, is the archipelago of the Republic of Cabo Verde, popularly known as Cape Verde. This sunny collection of ten islands have been growing in popularity among tourists who visit from far afield. The islands offer relaxation and a unique culture that makes Cape Verde loved by its visitors.
Located in the Atlantic Ocean, about 500 km off the coast of Senegal and Mauritania in Western Africa, is the archipelago of the Republic of Cabo Verd...
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58,39 zł |
Teaching in the Sun
ISBN: 9781500844134 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ghana has become increasingly popular as a holiday destination. This is unsurprising - it is one of the most politically stable, and safe, countries in Africa. But visiting for a fortnight, or even a month, barely allows a scratch of the surface of this vibrant nation. You can see some of the sights and sample the food, but you'll never get a real understanding of what makes the country tick. Having left his History classroom in Britain, Peet spent ten months of 2012 teaching in rural Ghana. In this thought-provoking book, he recounts some of the tales which shaped his stay in the house of...
Ghana has become increasingly popular as a holiday destination. This is unsurprising - it is one of the most politically stable, and safe, countries i...
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61,28 zł |
The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822359845 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They also demonstrate that the path to fully understanding Ghana requires acknowledging its ethnic and cultural...
Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic...
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545,40 zł |
The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822359920 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They also demonstrate that the path to fully understanding Ghana requires acknowledging its ethnic and cultural...
Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic...
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132,92 zł |
North to Lalibela: Searching for Ethiopia
ISBN: 9781508445081 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Do you think that all Ethiopians are beggars?" Zeleka is a gentle, thoughtful boy, still at preparatory school at the age of eighteen, who has a unique approach to gaining the attention of travellers to his city: he asks for their help with his homework. North to Lalibela tells the story of a trip along Ethiopia's Northern Circuit, into an ancient civilisation - its culture, architecture, art, anthropology, and quirks of history, language and religion. It is a journey of physical adventure and cultural awakening, a memoir of the beauty and challenge of travel in the cradle of civilisation....
"Do you think that all Ethiopians are beggars?" Zeleka is a gentle, thoughtful boy, still at preparatory school at the age of eighteen, who has a uniq...
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27,06 zł |