wyszukanych pozycji: 3
Ancient Yew
ISBN: 9781785700781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. This book tells the extraordinary story of the yew's role in the landscape through the millennia, and makes a convincing case for the origins of many of the oldest trees, as markers of the holy places founded by Celtic saints in the early medieval 'Dark Ages'.
With wonderful photographic portraits of ancient yews and a gazetteer (with locations)... The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tre...
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167,62 zł |
Poisonous Plants : A Cultural and Social History
ISBN: 9781905119219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The botanical history of Britain and North West Europe has a dark and a light side. Plants have been used as weapons to harm people, taken deliberately as addictive drugs and also employed as tools in witchcraft and used as magical amulets. Yet many of these same plants have been medicinally vital to numerous European communities; as the author notes, frequently the only difference between a benevolent medicine and a poison is dosage. In this book, which is richly illustrated with modern colour photographs and illustrations from herbals, Robert Bevan-Jones brings together a wealth of...
The botanical history of Britain and North West Europe has a dark and a light side. Plants have been used as weapons to harm people, taken deliberatel...
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152,37 zł |
Surviving Aberfan: The People's Story
ISBN: 9781786230348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tragedy unfolding after thousands of tons of coal waste fell from a mountainside onto its primary school and surrounding houses. The majority of the 144 people killed were children under 12. After more than 50 years the survivors of that disaster - among the worst in Britain's peacetime history - still live with painful memories and all-too-real after effects. In this first ever oral history of the tragedy, people who were there tell their... Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tra... |
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71,93 zł |