wyszukanych pozycji: 18
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
ISBN: 9780099592853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer.
'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer.
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101,36 zł |
Brytyjska monarchia od kuchni
ISBN: 9788311157521 / Polski / Twarda / 2019 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Wiadomości z życia brytyjskiej rodziny królewskiej wciąż podbijają media, miliony osób na całym świecie codziennie śledzą z zaciekawieniem wszystkie doniesienia zza bram Buckingham Palace.
Monarchowie nie gotują. Nie ubierają się samodzielnie, nie nalewają sobie picia ani nie ścielą łóżka. Podobno przyszły władca Królestwa, jego posiadłości i terytoriów, nawet nie wyciska sobie sam z tubki pasty do zębów, gdyż zadanie to należy do jednego z czterech jego kamerdynerów, który nakłada pastę na królewską szczoteczkę ze zdobionego srebrnego dozownika.... Wiadomości z życia brytyjskiej rodziny królewskiej wciąż podbijają media, miliony osób na całym świecie codziennie śledzą z zaciekawieniem ...
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47,40 zł |
The Great Fire of London: The Essential Guide
ISBN: 9781784872144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration that would devastate the third largest city in the Western world. This is a guide to the Great Fire of London and includes first-hand descriptions from the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.
In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration...
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38,17 zł |
His Invention So Fertile
ISBN: 9780712673648 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This portrait of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great British architect, aims to show us the man behind the legend. Wren was a founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem of longitude and the rings of Saturn, and carried out groundbreaking experiments into the circulation of the blood. His observations on comets, meteorology and muscular action made vital contributions to the developing ideas of Newton, Halley and Boyle.
This portrait of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great British architect, aims to show us the man behind the legend. Wren was a founder of the Royal...
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163,80 zł |
The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War
ISBN: 9781541602793 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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147,44 zł |
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend
ISBN: 9780571350964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing us what it was really like to spend a weekend with the Jazz Age industrialist, the bibulous belted earl, and the bright young thing.
The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing us what it was really like to spend a weekend wit...
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50,67 zł |
Rainborowes
ISBN: 9780099555759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The enthralling history of one English family who changed the world through the turbulent years of the Civil War and birth of the New World.
T"he Rainborowes" bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World. Starting with William Rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and his equally formidable sons and daughters between 1630 and 1660, we follow their astonishing story through the Civil War, the Putney debates, and... The enthralling history of one English family who changed the world through the turbulent years of the Civil War and birth of the New World.
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92,77 zł |
The Rainborowes: One Family's Quest to Build a New England
ISBN: 9780465023004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history. These three decades witnessed the birth of English America and, in the mother country, a vicious civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. It was an era of death and new beginnings, and at its heart was one remarkable family: the Rainborowes. In The Rainborowes, acclaimed historian Adrian Tinniswood tells the story of this all-but-forgotten clan for the very first time, showing how the family bridged two worlds as they struggled to build a godly community...
The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history. These three decades witnessed the birth of English America and, in...
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218,79 zł |
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House
ISBN: 9781529111439 / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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65,84 zł |
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London
ISBN: 9780712668477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This account of the Great Fire of London explores its history and consequences, from the first small blaze to the long work of rebuilding. It also describes the human story of the fire and its aftermath - the panic and terror, the hunt for scapegoats and the rebirth of a city.
This account of the Great Fire of London explores its history and consequences, from the first small blaze to the long work of rebuilding. It also des...
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65,84 zł |
By Permission of Heaven
ISBN: 9781594480393 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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104,08 zł |
The Verneys : Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781844134144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Adrian Tinniswood presents the extraordinary story of one English family in the 17th century - the Verneys. By drawing on their letters, he reveals the world of this family of Buckinghamshire gentry in detail and intimacy.
Adrian Tinniswood presents the extraordinary story of one English family in the 17th century - the Verneys. By drawing on their letters, he reveals th...
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98,23 zł |
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
ISBN: 9781594485442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The true story that's "bloody good entertainment" (New York Times) about the colorful and legendary pirates of the 17th century.
If not for today's news stories about piracy on the high seas, it'd be easy to think of pirating as a romantic way of life long gone. But nothing is further from the truth. Pirates have existed since the invention of commerce itself, and they reached the zenith of their power during the 1600s, when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world and pirates were the scourge of Europe. Historian and author Adrian Tinniswood brings this exciting and... The true story that's "bloody good entertainment" (New York Times) about the colorful and legendary pirates of the 17th century.
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104,08 zł |
Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
ISBN: 9780099523864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. From European runaways to Islamic sea-rovers, 'Pirates of Barbary' is a record of the men who terrorised the Barbary coast and beyond. Taking the individual histories of a range of these men, Adrian Tinniswood recreates the twilight world of the corsair in fascinating detail.
From European runaways to Islamic sea-rovers, 'Pirates of Barbary' is a record of the men who terrorised the Barbary coast and beyond. Taking the indi...
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65,84 zł |
The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War
ISBN: 9781787334168 / Twarda / 2024 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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126,69 zł |
Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household
ISBN: 9781910702826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Behind the Throne uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension between duty and desire;
Behind the Throne uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizab...
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126,69 zł |
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781594483097 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. "To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly...
The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents....
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104,08 zł |
Brytyjska monarchia od kuchni
ISBN: 9788311167711 / Polski / broszurowa / 2022 / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Wiadomości z życia brytyjskiej rodziny królewskiej wciąż podbijają media, miliony osób na całym świecie codziennie śledzą z zaciekawieniem wszystkie doniesienia zza bram Buckingham Palace.Monarchowie nie gotują. Nie ubierają się samodzielnie, nie nalewają sobie picia ani nie ścielą łóżka. Podobno przyszły władca Królestwa, jego posiadłości i terytoriów, nawet nie wyciska sobie sam z tubki pasty do zębów, gdyż zadanie to należy do jednego z czterech jego kamerdynerów, który nakłada pastę na królewską szczoteczkę ze zdobionego srebrnego dozownika. Oficjalnie...
Wiadomości z życia brytyjskiej rodziny królewskiej wciąż podbijają media, miliony osób na całym świecie codziennie śledzą z zaciekawieniem ...
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56,91 zł |