Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to Bloodshed
ISBN: 9780230600447 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s.
This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced...
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191,85 zł |
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
ISBN: 9788562022425 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes Roosevelt's expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913. The book describes scenic tropical views and an exotic fauna and flora. "When I started from the United States, it was to make an expedition, primarily concerned with mammalogy and ornithology, for the American Museum of Natural History of New York. This was undertaken under the auspices of Messrs. Osborn and Chapman, acting on behalf of the Museum. In the body of this work I describe how the scope of the expedition was enlarged, and how it was given a geographic as well as a zoological...
Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes Roosevelt's expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913. The book describes scenic tropical views and an e...
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43,62 zł |
Antarctica: My Journey North from Antarctica
ISBN: 9781426920752 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Come, one and all to experience what few people will ever experience in any of our life-times.
The Antarctic, its mystical wonders and luring inhabitants. Next, visit the Patagonians of Argentina with the true gaucho's life that has made them famous throughout the world. The Galapagos Islands, known for its contribution of rare species, and ecological remoteness protecting the planets ecosystem. Continue on to enjoy some of the mysteries and excitement of Central America through the Panama right up to Honduras. Learn about the civilization of the Copan. This Canadian... Come, one and all to experience what few people will ever experience in any of our life-times.
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117,02 zł |
Tango Lover's Guide to Buenos Aires: Insights and Recommendations
ISBN: 9781440166754 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Begin your tango journey to Buenos Aires Experience the tango dance halls (milongas), the dinner shows, tango bars, and restaurants that feature tango. Learn where the icons of tango are immortalized. Know where to dance and what is expected of the visitor who traverses the culture of tango. The author, a single woman traveling alone, visited Buenos Aries many times over many years. Recently, she lived there for a year, keeping a journal of her odyssey. She interviewed and taped milongueros to discover secrets of the dance and traditions that shaped their attitudes and behavior. Tango...
Begin your tango journey to Buenos Aires Experience the tango dance halls (milongas), the dinner shows, tango bars, and restaurants that feature tang...
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78,79 zł |
Men's Guide to Colombia 2010
ISBN: 9781452832364 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the single or 'wish I were single' traveler to Colombia. Whether traveling with significant other or without this guide is the ideal companion to both study and quickly reference the best adult establishments by city and suburb in Colombia. Details down to addresses, some reviews and even phone numbers to check if they are open in that 1 hour window that you have.
For the single or 'wish I were single' traveler to Colombia. Whether traveling with significant other or without this guide is the ideal companion to ...
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39,07 zł |
A Voyage to Patagonia through the Straits of Magellan aboard the H.M.S. Beagle and Adventure (1826-1827)
ISBN: 9783941842250 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Expedition der britischen Schiffe "Beagle" und "Adventure" in den Jahren 1826 und 1827 diente vornehmlich der Erkundung der Magellan-Strae fur die Nutzung durch die Handelsschifffahrt. Man wollte Alternativen zu dem gefahrlichen Seeweg um Kap Horn finden, war sich aber durchaus bewusst, dass auch die Magellan-Strae mit ihren starken Stromungen, heftigen Sturmen und zahlreichen Untiefen groe Gefahren fur Segelschiffe barg. Die wendigen und schnellen Erkundungsschiffe der Royal Navy leisteten gefahrliche Pionierarbeit. Von groem Gluck fur die Nachwelt sollte sich der Umstand erweisen, dass...
Die Expedition der britischen Schiffe "Beagle" und "Adventure" in den Jahren 1826 und 1827 diente vornehmlich der Erkundung der Magellan-Strae fur die...
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479,81 zł |
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of HMS Beagle
ISBN: 9781849025751 / Angielski / Twarda / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darwins biological studies on the Beagle are justly famous but he also spent a huge amount of time and effort investigating and documenting the geological formations that he encountered on his journey. This volume brings together his detailed observations on volcanic islands and South America and is still a wonderful sourcebook of material as well as offering further insights into the life and work of a celebrated and meticulous scientist. This is a facsimile reprint of a good quality scan - there may be a few places where very small text is hard to read. The original illustrations and plates...
Darwins biological studies on the Beagle are justly famous but he also spent a huge amount of time and effort investigating and documenting the geolog...
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171,38 zł |
Twice Colombia: Adventure, Friendship, and Adoption in the Andes Mountains
ISBN: 9781426955167 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patricia Woodard had always wanted to teach in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then, in the summer of 1975, while she was teaching summer school in her hometown of Whiteville, North Carolina, she received a telegram asking her to teach in Bogota, Colombia. Excited and stunned to finally be realizing her dream, she accepted the teaching job and began a crazed summer of preparation for her August departure for South America. "Twice Colombia" shares her story of realizing her dream and the realities of teaching in a foreign country like Colombia, two different times over...
Patricia Woodard had always wanted to teach in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then, in the summer of 1975, while she was teach...
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80,45 zł |
The Road to Ushuaia: The World's Southest Town
ISBN: 9781450299534 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alone, unarmed and sleeping in a tent, Patirck and June drove through 16 countries of Central and South America, often hiding from bandits and inspected by police several times a day. They met many people, rich ones in resorts, store keepers in towns and ones in remote places who thought that where they lived was the whole world. And they saw many things that those who go on tours will never see.
Alone, unarmed and sleeping in a tent, Patirck and June drove through 16 countries of Central and South America, often hiding from bandits and insp... |
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107,90 zł |
The Other Side: On the Road in South America
ISBN: 9781462010943 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Through provocative insights and observations, Tom Reed explores the ruggedly beautiful landscape of Southern Chile and Argentina as intensely as he examines the current social, political, and cultural landscapes of North America and his own rich inner and spiritual life. Deeply personal, intellectually astute, and searingly honest, Reed misses no nuance in his inward and outward search for a place he can truly call home. "Equal parts Romanticist, Beat, Transcendentalist, and Zen Master, Reed is a refreshingly unique new voice in travel and social commentary, and THE OTHER SIDE is an... "Through provocative insights and observations, Tom Reed explores the ruggedly beautiful landscape of Southern Chile and Argentina as intensely as ... |
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103,74 zł |
Ecuador: 2015
ISBN: 9781553412007 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America
ISBN: 9780762777563 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don't Run and Don't Look Behind You. Sixteen years later, he makes his way to Santiago, Chile, ready to seek out the continent's best, weirdest, and wildest adventures, and to chase the elusive jaguar. In just the first six months, Allison is bitten by a puma (several times), knocked on his head by a bad empanada, and surrounded...
On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted t...
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68,61 zł |
Venezuela: 2011
ISBN: 9781553414575 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This waterproof map of Venezuela has a scale of 1:1,200,000. It includes a legend and index.
This waterproof map of Venezuela has a scale of 1:1,200,000. It includes a legend and index.
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The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk / 1835-1844 / Volume I / Explorations on Behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835-183
ISBN: 9780904180862 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. Robert Schomburgk left his native Germany for North America in 1828, aged twenty-four. A year later he was in the Caribbean, where, after various business failures, he devoted himself to the investigation of natural history, especially botany. Although he had no previous contact with the Royal Geographical Society in London, the work he submitted to it was of such a quality that he was able to...
This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only ...
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627,18 zł |
Brazil: Portrait of Half a Continent
ISBN: 9780837156408 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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20,000 Miles with My Rucksack
ISBN: 9780755213481 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Samantha is a young woman who, like many others, dreamt of exploring the world. One day she packed her rucksack and just took off, leaving everything behind. For over a year Samantha did nothing but travelling back and forth across South America. Seven years on and several versions later, she finally completed her first book "20,000 miles with my rucksack." Samantha, an Italian by birth and a Brit by education with worldly aspirations. Having a contagious hunger for life and an insatiable passion for travel Samantha balances the demands of a growing family with a successful career in the city...
Samantha is a young woman who, like many others, dreamt of exploring the world. One day she packed her rucksack and just took off, leaving everything ...
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83,78 zł |
Lima / Central Peru: 2016
ISBN: 9781553416562 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,73 zł |
Twice Colombia: Adventure, Friendship, and Adoption in the Andes Mountains
ISBN: 9781426992810 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patricia Woodard had always wanted to live and work in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then in the summer of 1975 while she was teaching summer school in her hometown of Whiteville, North Carolina, she received a telegram offering her a teaching position in Bogota, Colombia. Excited and stunned to finally be realizing her dream, she accepted the offer and set off for a year high on a plateau in the Andes Mountains. Several years later, she returned to Colombia, this time to teach in sunny Cali, and along the way realized she had fallen in love with the country and... Patricia Woodard had always wanted to live and work in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then in the summer of 1975 while she ... |
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65,96 zł |
Adventures of a First Year Teacher in a Third World Country
ISBN: 9781450273916 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Adventures of a First Year Teacher in a Third World Country" is a collection of the author's experiences in Bolivia during the 1980's. It describes his encounter with a Nazi war criminal, the surgery he performed on his own foot, and the time a policeman tried to shoot him. Sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, but always interesting, this description of Bolivia and its people takes the reader to a part of the world most Americans seldom see.
"Adventures of a First Year Teacher in a Third World Country" is a collection of the author's experiences in Bolivia during the 1980's. It describes h...
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53,84 zł |
Lonesome George: Cest Moi! A South American odyssey
ISBN: 9781469964898 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lonesome George, C'est Moi is a travel adventure and comedy of epic proportions. In his mock heroic quest of self-discovery ending in a confrontation with his alter ego, a giant lovelorn tortoise on the Galapagos Islands, author Jorge Sotirios illuminates the rugged beauty of the South American landscape, interweaving its history, culture and people. Lured to South America by an Argentine beauty, his journey takes him across the equator, through the Amazon jungle and climaxes in the austere Galapagos Islands where he comes to face his doppelganger, "Lonesome George," the last surviving...
Lonesome George, C'est Moi is a travel adventure and comedy of epic proportions. In his mock heroic quest of self-discovery ending in a confrontation...
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65,45 zł |