wyszukanych pozycji: 35
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Der Fluch der Muskatnuss
ISBN: 9783751820011 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Auf einer indonesischen Insel fällt eine Öllampe zu Boden, kurz danach begehen niederländische Soldaten ein Massaker an den Inselbewohnern.Wie hängen diese beiden Geschehnisse zusammen und was geschah danach? Mit dieser Frage beginnt Amitav Ghosh seine Recherche auf den Spuren der Muskatnuss. Heute alltägliches Gewürz, galt sie im 17. Jahrhundert als Luxusgut - allein eine Handvoll davon reichte aus, um einen Palast zu erbauen -, denn die seltene Frucht wuchs nur auf jener Insel, die niederländische Truppen vornehmlich deshalb in Besitz nahmen, um das Handelsmonopol für die...
Auf einer indonesischen Insel fällt eine Öllampe zu Boden, kurz danach begehen niederländische Soldaten ein Massaker an den Inselbewohnern.Wie hän...
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123,77 zł |
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The Glass Palace
ISBN: 9780006514091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Rajkumar helps on a market stall outside the royal palace when the British force the royal family into exile. Rescued by a Chinese merchant they move to upper Burma but he is haunted by his vision of the royal family and journeys to find them.
Rajkumar helps on a market stall outside the royal palace when the British force the royal family into exile. Rescued by a Chinese merchant they move ...
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54,66 zł |
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
ISBN: 9781250371874 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,30 zł |
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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
ISBN: 9781529369465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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54,66 zł |
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Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
ISBN: 9781529349269 / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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54,66 zł |
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Gun Island
ISBN: 9781250757937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,80 zł |
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The Circle of Reason
ISBN: 9781848544161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Eight-year-old weaver Alu, a child of preternatural talent, embarks on a series of adventures that takes him from his home in an Indian village through the slums of Calcutta to Goa and across the sea to Africa.
Eight-year-old weaver Alu, a child of preternatural talent, embarks on a series of adventures that takes him from his home in an Indian village throug...
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54,66 zł |
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The Hungry Tide
ISBN: 9780007141784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal.
Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelag...
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49,69 zł |
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The Shadow Lines
ISBN: 9780618329960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of Sea of Poppies, a novel weaving history and memory together to create "a rare work that balances formal ingenuity, heart, and mind" (New Republic)
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one English, one Bengali--as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the... From the acclaimed author of Sea of Poppies, a novel weaving history and memory together to create "a rare work that balances formal inge... |
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80,76 zł |
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Flood of Fire: Ibis Trilogy Book 3
ISBN: 9780719569029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The final book in the bestselling Ibis trilogy from the author of Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.
The final book in the bestselling Ibis trilogy from the author of Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.
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54,66 zł |
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Sea of Poppies: Ibis Trilogy Book 1
ISBN: 9780719568978 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The background to this historical adventure is the Opium Wars. The story revolves around the Ibis, an old slaving-ship voyaging across the Indian Ocean, its crew made up of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts, representing Westerners and Indians respectively. Slowly they start considering themselves as ship-brothers.
The background to this historical adventure is the Opium Wars. The story revolves around the Ibis, an old slaving-ship voyaging across the Indian Ocea...
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54,66 zł |
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Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
ISBN: 9780618872213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "An uncannily honest writer." --New York Times Book Review
The novelist and journalist Amitav Ghosh has offered extraordinary firsthand accounts of pivotal world events over the past twenty years. He is an essential voice in forums like The Nation, the New York Times, the New Republic, Granta, and The New Yorker. Incendiary Circumstances brings together the finest of these pieces for the first time--including many never before published in the States--in a compelling chronicle of the turmoil of our times. Incendiary... "An uncannily honest writer." --New York Times Book Review
The novelist and journalist Amitav Ghosh has offered extraordinary first... |
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80,76 zł |
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The Glass Palace
ISBN: 9780008683542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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49,69 zł |
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The Calcutta Chromosome
ISBN: 9781848544154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a cast of extraordinary characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and evocative portraits of 20th century India and America, Ghosh's new book is a Victorian ghost story, a medical thriller and a scientific quest in one.
With a cast of extraordinary characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and evocative portraits of 20th century India and America, Ghosh's...
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54,66 zł |
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The Circle of Reason
ISBN: 9780618329625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit.
Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, ...
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80,76 zł |
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The Shadow Lines
ISBN: 9781848544178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others. When a seemingly random act of violence threatens his vision of the world, he begins piecing together events for himself, and in the process unravels secrets with devastating consequences.
A boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others. When a seemingly random act of violence threatens...
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54,66 zł |
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The Hungry Tide
ISBN: 9780618711666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake.
In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people... The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions ...
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76,50 zł |
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Jungle Nama
ISBN: 9781529349351 / Twarda / 2021 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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64,61 zł |
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
ISBN: 9780226526812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction:...
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative fail...
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76,55 zł |