
ilość książek w kategorii: 52671
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Northern California: A History and Guide - From Napa to Eureka
ISBN: 9780394729886 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The landscape of monotony is elsewhere," Jack Newcombe writes, and the routes he traces through the vineyards, towns, and parkland of northern California--along with the variegated pleasures to be explored en route--bear the proof:
- Mud baths and wine tasting in Calistoga - A view from the top at Mt. St. Helena - Wine touring, the slow and selective way, in the Napa and Sonoma valleys - "A Beer Experience" in Petaluma, and a dining treat at the New Boonvile Hotel - Whale watching on the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts - Walking the redwood forest trails - Finishing... "The landscape of monotony is elsewhere," Jack Newcombe writes, and the routes he traces through the vineyards, towns, and parkland of northern Califo...
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58,12 |
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
ISBN: 9780394752181 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and his encounters with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, Buddhists and others.
After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From He...
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61,99 |
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Into the Heart of Borneo
ISBN: 9780394755403 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story of a 1983 journey to the center of Borneo, which no expedition had attempted since 1926. O'Hanlon, accompanied by friend and poet James Fenton and three native guides brings wit and humor to a dangerous journey.
The story of a 1983 journey to the center of Borneo, which no expedition had attempted since 1926. O'Hanlon, accompanied by friend and poet James Fent...
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85,24 |
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Road Fever
ISBN: 9780394758374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tim Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty three and a half days.
Tim Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking ...
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69,74 |
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Sunrise with Seamonsters
ISBN: 9780395415016 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in fifty glittering pieces of gold.
The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer hi...
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cena:
85,05 |
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Along the Edge of America
ISBN: 9780395877371 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From America's favorite traveler, "Along the Edge of America" recounts the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast. The author explores the Florida Everglades, genteel southern homesteads, Cajun marshlands, and the Texas coastal cattle country. It's a riveting adventure by the author of "A Walk Across America". Photos.
From America's favorite traveler, "Along the Edge of America" recounts the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast. The author explores the...
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81,32 |
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North Country: A Personal Journey through the Borderland
ISBN: 9780395901397 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In celebration of his first half century of life, Mosher set off on a journey, following America's northern border from coast to coast, to discover a harsh and beautiful region populated by some of the continent's most self-sufficient, independent-minded men and women.
In celebration of his first half century of life, Mosher set off on a journey, following America's northern border from coast to coast, to discover a ...
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73,57 |
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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
ISBN: 9780395901472 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Muir shows us the wilderness - and the people and towns as well - of the post-Civil War South as he walks from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast.
Muir shows us the wilderness - and the people and towns as well - of the post-Civil War South as he walks from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, Nor...
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57,93 |
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Travels in Alaska
ISBN: 9780395901489 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Muir's enchantment with Alaska began only twelve years after American purchased it from Russia in 1867. Here, after thirty years and many return visits, he records his first adventures in the land of glaciers and northern lights.
Muir's enchantment with Alaska began only twelve years after American purchased it from Russia in 1867. Here, after thirty years and many return visit...
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85,20 |
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Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone
ISBN: 9780399533105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There's a whole big world out there. Here's how every woman can get out and conquer it-solo.
This is an inspiring guide for women who want to "fly solo"-yet stay safe, sane, and solvent during their travels. With candid advice and insider's secrets about some of the most exciting places on earth, readers will find: - A quiz to help determine what sorts of trips best suit one's personality, interests, and goals - The essential female-friendly spots every woman should visit - Why each destination is perfect for solo travelers, important foreign phrases, what to pack, what... There's a whole big world out there. Here's how every woman can get out and conquer it-solo.
This is an inspiring guide for women who want to "fl... |
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104,61 |
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Global Change and Challenge: Geography for the 1990s
ISBN: 9780415001434 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. We are now experiencing a period of unprecedented change; what amounts to a global revolution in our economy, society and awareness of the human impact on the environment. Global Change and Challenge examines some of the crucial issues facing society in the 1990s and how geography can contribute to their understanding and management. Using the broad theme of how societies adapt to change, the contributors seek to present a range of views on the geography of change' in an accessible form for both school and university students. The general aim of the book is as much to encourage...
We are now experiencing a period of unprecedented change; what amounts to a global revolution in our economy, society and awareness of the human impac...
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289,51 |
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Introducing Quantitative Geography: Measurement, Methods and Generalised Linear Models
ISBN: 9780415004657 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The purpose of quantitative geography is to train geographers in numeracy and in the vital skills of data collection, processing and interpretation.
Introducting Quantitative Geography describes quantification from first principles to cover all the key elements of quantitative geography. No previous knowledge of statistical procedures is assumed. Worked examples and computer analyses are used to explain measurement, scale, description, models and modelling. Building on this, the book explores and clarifies the intellectual and practical problems presented by numerical and... The purpose of quantitative geography is to train geographers in numeracy and in the vital skills of data collection, processing and interpretation. |
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613,46 |
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The Roman Remains of Southern France : A Guide Book
ISBN: 9780415008372 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive guide book in English devoted to the Roman remains of southern France. The book embraces Provence, the Riviera and Languedoc-Roussillon from the Alps to the Pyrennees. It ranges from sites such as the extensive Roman remains at Vienne in the Rhone valley, the great aqueduct of Pont du Gard, the beautiful ruined temple of Vernegues, to the striking museum collections of Arles and Avignon. It provides an extensive description of the major and many of the less well-known sites. Greek and the local Gallic contributions to Roman civilization are given proper...
This book offers a comprehensive guide book in English devoted to the Roman remains of southern France. The book embraces Provence, the Riviera and La...
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760,69 |
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Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience
ISBN: 9780415025515 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.
Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continua...
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122,64 |
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Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s
ISBN: 9780415040716 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1937, the Mass-Observation organization was founded to record the everyday life of ordinary people for a popular audience. The mass-observers followed labourers, from the routine of work and home life in the Lancashire town of Bolton, to Blackpool. They recorded what they saw, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this crowded temple of Victorian culture and also to transcend class prejudice and sociological theory. The annual pilgrimage to Blackpool was at the centre of the annual cycle of renewal and release in working-class life.
In 1937, the Mass-Observation organization was founded to record the everyday life of ordinary people for a popular audience. The mass-observers follo...
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711,62 |
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The Atlas of African Affairs
ISBN: 9780415054881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective on African affairs. Most of the chapters deal with continent-wide themes and are illustrated by maps of Africa as a whole drawn to a standardized outline of the same map projection and scale. Other chapters, often by way of example, discuss parts of the continent or individual countries and are illustrated with appropriate maps. The basic format of integrated text...
The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Afr...
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269,87 |
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Writing Worlds : Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
ISBN: 9780415054997 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Writing Worlds explores the issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor. Each theme is used as a potential entry point into understanding the shape and substance of particular kinds of geographical writings: the discourses of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers' descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. Representation of the landscape - city, countryside or...
Writing Worlds explores the issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors...
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981,54 |
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Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780415066891 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Marshalling 129 maps, numerous diagrams and incisive textual commentary, the Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century draws a definitive picture of the changing shape of Eastern and some of central Europe from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, charting the emergence of a volatile world from the abrupt collapse of the communist system. An invaluable guide to a complex subject, this Atlas:
* gives a general introduction to the physical, ethnic and religious composition of the region * includes summary maps of Eastern Europe in 1900, 1923,... Marshalling 129 maps, numerous diagrams and incisive textual commentary, the Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century draws a definit...
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760,69 |
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Tourism: Politics and Public Sector Management
ISBN: 9780415071581 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tourism evokes images of tropical islands and luxurious beach resorts but it is also big international business. Now replacing oil as the most important industry in the world, tourism can be very destructive of the environment, corrupt and exploitative. This text explains how governments manage this highly diverse and volatile industry. It covers the management of tourism at all levels of government, including both developed and developing countries. A historic and economic overview is provided as well as a discussion of the reasons why and how governments are involved in tourism management....
Tourism evokes images of tropical islands and luxurious beach resorts but it is also big international business. Now replacing oil as the most importa...
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260,06 |
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Companion Encyclopedia of Geography : The Environment and Humankind
ISBN: 9780415074179 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also asks what lies in the future:
* A differentiated world * A world transformed by the growth of a global economy * The global scale of habitat modification * A world of questions * Changing worlds, changing geographies * Geographical futures. The forty-five self... The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth ...
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cena:
2061,23 |