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Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan
ISBN: 9780295982502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War. In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed... George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as ... |
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476,32 zł |
Washington State: Third Edition
ISBN: 9780295982885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This revised, updated, and improved edition of the leading high school textbook on Washington State history brings the reader from the earliest known accounts of the region up to the present. Incorporating the newest data from the 2000 census, LeWarne presents a vivid and up-to-date portrait of the cultures and trends that continue to shape Washington State. From the role of Native American tribal governments to the administration of Governor Gary Locke, he examines changes in the political arena including the pivotal events of the 2000 elections. The book addresses a range of ongoing... This revised, updated, and improved edition of the leading high school textbook on Washington State history brings the reader from the earliest kno... |
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293,91 zł |
Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875
ISBN: 9780295986791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When every land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian forebears offers a pleasantly distant mirror from which to regard our own time. The Arctic regions have been the subject of a long-lasting visual fascination, one which has from the outset crossed boundaries between fine art and mass entertainment, "high" and "low" cultures, and even national identity. In the mid-nineteenth century, this polar passion reached a peak, dominating the visual culture of both Britain and America, and yet its history is scarcely... When every land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian forebears offer... |
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228,03 zł |
Walking Trails of Eastern and Central Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780299155742 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The sheer physical beauty and varied landscapes of eastern and central Wisconsin are best experienced on its walking trails. Walking Trails of Eastern and Central Wisconsin is a handy guide to trails that wind through the streets of old Milwaukee and the forests of the Kettle Moraine, across the Niagara Escarpment, along the shores of picturesque Door County, or up the sandstone mound at Lone Rock for a panoramic view of flatlands that once were the bed of glacial Lake Wisconsin.
A companion to the popular Walking Trails of Southern Wisconsin, this book describes more than... The sheer physical beauty and varied landscapes of eastern and central Wisconsin are best experienced on its walking trails. Walking Trails of East...
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107,15 zł |
Backpacking Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780299168148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Microsoft Office is the worldwide leading office productivity suite, featuring Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook and FrontPage. This two-colour, step-by-step consumer guide features screen shots with specific, numbered instructions showing the actions one needs to perform to execute certain tasks. This book is good for visual learners who want a straightforward show me, don't tell me why approach.
Microsoft Office is the worldwide leading office productivity suite, featuring Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook and FrontPage. This two-colour...
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107,15 zł |
Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs: Searching for the Perfect Pint
ISBN: 9780299174446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This guidebook introduces you to over 60 brewpubs and breweries in Wisconsin, and rates 600 local beers. Each description includes a history, ratings, notes on the pub food with suggestions of other sites to see and activities in the area. There is also information on the brewing process.
This guidebook introduces you to over 60 brewpubs and breweries in Wisconsin, and rates 600 local beers. Each description includes a history, ratings,...
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120,04 zł |
Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels Through Syria
ISBN: 9780299192907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cleopatra's Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the first page. Like the best travel books, Robert Tewdwr Moss's memoir of his travels through Syria resonates on many levels: as a profoundly telling vivisection of Middle Eastern society, a chilling history of ethnic crimes, a picaresque adventure story, a purely entertaining travelogue, and a poignant romance.
Tewdwr Moss, a brilliant young writer who was murdered in London the day after he finished this book, left this lyrical gem as his legacy. He adeptly captures an essence of the Middle East that is... Cleopatra's Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the first page. Like the best travel books, Robert Tewdwr Moss's memoir o...
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107,15 zł |
San Juan: Memoir of a City
ISBN: 9780299203740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodrí guez Juliá . No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture.
In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodrí guez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own... "San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflec...
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126,24 zł |
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
ISBN: 9780300063974 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that are constantly evolving, says Jackson, time and movement are increasingly important to us and place and permanence are less so. We no longer gain a feeling of community from where we live or where we assemble but from common work hours, habits, and customs. Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, trucks,...
J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundin...
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106,68 zł |
Dr. Beach's Survival Guide: What You Need to Know about Sharks, Rip Currents, and More Before Going in the Water
ISBN: 9780300100280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, from the nation's most renowned beach expert, is the first complete guide to beach safety. Stephen P. Leatherman (a.k.a. Dr. Beach) introduces the gamut of beach hazards--from sharks to rip currents to jellyfish--revealing which dangers should be of greatest concern and how best to minimize their risks. His scientifically sound advice, interspersed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, makes this book a perfect reference for the millions of travelers and vacationers who visit the ocean shore every year.
Practical answers to these intriguing questions and more: - Which U.S. beach... Here, from the nation's most renowned beach expert, is the first complete guide to beach safety. Stephen P. Leatherman (a.k.a. Dr. Beach) introduces t...
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156,61 zł |
Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past: 8 Self-Guided Walking Tours Through New York City
ISBN: 9780300103885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a new way of exploring the city through the rich history that lies buried beneath it. Generously illustrated and replete with maps, the tours are designed to explore both ancient times and modern space. This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a... |
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192,69 zł |
These Sad But Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850
ISBN: 9780300105605 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Margaret Fuller-journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist-was a foreign correspondent for the New-York Tribune from 1846-50. This engrossing book provides the first complete edition of Fuller's dispatches from England, France, and Italy, which began as engaging travel sketches but soon turned into moving and dramatic eyewitness accounts of the most widespread revolutionary upheaval within modern history. "Fuller's letters are extraordinarily good. They will be of interest to scholars of American literature and history, women's studies, and European literature and...
Margaret Fuller-journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist-was a foreign correspondent for the New-York Tribune from 1846-50. This e...
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270,84 zł |
A Traveller in Italy
ISBN: 9780306810787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, without its story of God, of love or death." Morton's stories and observations of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia, and Veneto, whether relating to the fantastic reconstruction of the La Scala opera house or the superstitious lovers at Juliet's Tomb, make his style as engaging as the landscape and people he evokes.
The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, witho...
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124,50 zł |
In the Steps of the Master
ISBN: 9780306810817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, in the spirit of Bruce Feiler's beloved bestseller Walking the Bible, is a portrait of the Holy Land as a physical embodiment of faith. Dramatically conjuring the beauty of Israel's countryside, In the Steps of the Master also evokes the all-consuming passions and deep-rooted mysteries of Jerusalem--and while much has changed, as Morton says, the essential nature of the sites he visits has not.
Here, in the spirit of Bruce Feiler's beloved bestseller Walking the Bible, is a portrait of the Holy Land as a physical embodiment of faith. D...
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107,32 zł |
In Search of England
ISBN: 9780306811050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called "travel writing at its best. Bill Bryson must weep when he reads it." Whether describing ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury or hilarious encounters with the inhabitants of Norfolk, Morton recalls a way of life far from gone even at the beginning of a new century.
Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called "travel writing at its be...
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94,44 zł |
A Traveller in Rome
ISBN: 9780306811319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome--the fabled era of La Dolce Vita--remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed and delightful journey around the city, from the Fontana di Trevi and the Colosseum to the Vatican Gardens loud with exquisite birdsong. He also takes time to consider such eternal topics as the idiosyncrasies of Italian drivers as well as the ominous possibilities behind an unusual absence of pigeons in the Piazza di San Pietro. As...
H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome--the fabled era of La Dolce Vita--remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal C...
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107,32 zł |
In Search of London
ISBN: 9780306811326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. H. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since childhood--London past, present, and timeless. He explores the City and the Temple, Covent Garden, SoHo, and all the "submerged villages beneath the flood of bricks and mortar," uncovering layer upon layer of London's history. Morton follows the thread of imagination back and forth across the city, tracing unforgettable scenes: the Emperor Claudius leading his war elephants across the Thames. . .the grisly executions at the Tower. . .the world of Shakespeare, Dickens, and...
H. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since childhood--London past, presen...
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107,32 zł |
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
ISBN: 9780306811807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, disillusionments, and memories. Her meditation on the place is characteristically layered with history and sprinkled with stories of famous visitors from James Joyce to Sigmund Freud. A lyrical travelogue, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is...
Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After...
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64,42 zł |
Sultry Climates: Travel & Sex
ISBN: 9780306812217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, said the reviewer for Salon.com, is a book that is "lively and accessible and erudite...the perfect companion for anyone who wouldn't be caught dead with an airport paperback-though I wouldn't want to wager which one provides more juice." Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. Sultry Climates is an alternative history of tourism, made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. As Ian Littlewood demonstrates with dazzling elegance and wit, if we want to make sense of the celebrated "Grand Tour" of the...
Here, said the reviewer for Salon.com, is a book that is "lively and accessible and erudite...the perfect companion for anyone who wouldn't be caught ...
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85,85 zł |
Guide to Civil War Philadelphia
ISBN: 9780306812323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The only guidebook of its kind covering Civil War-related sites in Philadelphia-the Union's second-largest cityWhen the Civil War began in 1861, Philadelphia was an important industrial center behind the Northern war effort. The city boasted two large federal arsenals, a major shipbuilding facility, the country's largest locomotive factory, and the busiest flag manufacturer in the United States. Philadelphia bankers raised valuable government bonds and millions of dollars for the Lincoln administration. Several prominent Union generals were born in Philadelphia, and the city enlisted scores...
The only guidebook of its kind covering Civil War-related sites in Philadelphia-the Union's second-largest cityWhen the Civil War began in 1861, Phila...
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126,48 zł |