wyszukanych pozycji: 173
The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
ISBN: 9781464216596 / Angielski / Twarda / 15-04-2025 Książka dostępna od: 15-04-2025 |
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101,76 zł |
Honest Dogs
ISBN: 9780945397786 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It had been six years since newspaper reporter Brian Patrick O'Donoghue mushed to a last place finish in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Yearning to challenge himself anew, he enters the Yukon Quest, a more brutal 1,000-mile run between Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and Fairbanks, Alaska. With wry humor and diminishing expectations, O'Donoghue shares the trail with Khan, Hobbes, Scrimshaw, Cyclone, and ten other excitable Alaska huskies, plus a diverse collection of rival racers and resident bush rats. The mushers' strategies, dreams and disappointments, the antics of the dogs, and the... It had been six years since newspaper reporter Brian Patrick O'Donoghue mushed to a last place finish in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Yearning... |
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96,80 zł |
Blue at the Mizzen
ISBN: 9780006513780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In this novel, Napoleon's 100 days of freedom have ended and Aubrey has finally become a true Blue Rear Admiral. He and Maturin set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile.
In this novel, Napoleon's 100 days of freedom have ended and Aubrey has finally become a true Blue Rear Admiral. He and Maturin set sail on their much...
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50,99 zł |
Joseph Banks – A Life
ISBN: 9780226616285 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its finest. Published to rave reviews, it reveals Banks to be a man of enduring importance, and establishes itself as a classic of exploration.
"It is in his description of that arduous three-year voyage on the ship Endeavor] that Mr. O'Brian is at his most brilliant. . . . He makes us understand what life within this wooden world was like,... One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's bio...
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101,43 zł |
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
ISBN: 9780006499282 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. As The Thirteen-Gun Salute opens Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command, & he & his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a hand-picked crew, most of them shipmates from the adventures & lucrative voyages of earlier years.
As The Thirteen-Gun Salute opens Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command, & he & his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with...
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50,99 zł |
The Ionian Mission
ISBN: 9780006499220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a line-of-battle ship, and this is a longer, harder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days.
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a line-of-battle ...
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50,99 zł |
The Complete Short Stories
ISBN: 9780008525439 / Twarda / 2023 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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178,61 zł |
H. M. S. Surprise
ISBN: 9780393541601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,30 zł |
Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard
ISBN: 9780393321821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stark tale encompassing the cruelty and beauty of the natural world, and a clear demonstration of the storytelling gift that would later flower in the Aubrey/Maturin series. When he was fourteen years old and beset by chronic ill health, Patrick O'Brian began creating his first fictional character. "I did it in my bedroom, and a little when I should have been doing my homework," he confessed in a note on the original dust-jacket. Caesar tells the picaresque, enchanting, and quite bloodthirsty story of a creature whose father is a giant panda and whose mother is a snow leopard. Through the...
A stark tale encompassing the cruelty and beauty of the natural world, and a clear demonstration of the storytelling gift that would later flower in t...
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74,75 zł |
The Commodore
ISBN: 9781324021551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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70,52 zł |
Master and Commander
ISBN: 9780006499152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'Master and Commander' is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels. The story establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and intelligence agent.
'Master and Commander' is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels. The story establishes the friendship between Captain Jack A...
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50,99 zł |
Picasso: A Biography
ISBN: 9780393311075 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Everything about Picasso, except his physical stature, was on an enormous scale. No painter of the first rank has been so awe-inspiringly productive. No painter of any rank has made so much money. A few painters have rivaled his life span of ninety years, but none has attracted so avid, so insatiable, a public interest Patrick O'Brian knew Picasso sufficiently well to have a strong sense of his personality. The man that emerges from this scholarly, passionate, and brilliantly written biography is one of many contradictions: hard and tender, mean and generous, affectionate and cold, private...
Everything about Picasso, except his physical stature, was on an enormous scale. No painter of the first rank has been so awe-inspiringly productive. ...
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132,30 zł |
Clarissa Oakes
ISBN: 9780006499305 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. As Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies he soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of the ship. What he doesn't know is that there is a potentially dangerous stranger aboard ship.
As Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies he soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of the ship. W...
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50,99 zł |
The Far Side of the World
ISBN: 9780006499251 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. It is still the war of 1812. Jack Aubrey & his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade.
It is still the war of 1812. Jack Aubrey & his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful Am...
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50,99 zł |
The Mauritius Command
ISBN: 9780006499183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Captain Jack Aubrey's friend Stephen arrives with secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. But he finds difficulty in carrying out his orders because of Lord Clonfert and Captain Corbett, his own Captains.
Captain Jack Aubrey's friend Stephen arrives with secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. But he finds ...
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50,99 zł |
Der verliebte Kapitän
ISBN: 9783311100812 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Kapitänsleutnant Jack Aubrey genießt seinen verdienten Landurlaub: Fuchsjagden, anständige Musik, hier und da ein Opernbesuch. Sein letztes Gefecht, in dem er mit seiner kleinen Vierzehn-Kanonen-Brigg Sophie die spanische Schebeckenfregatte Cacafuego erobert hat, war monatelang in aller Munde und hat ihm Ruhm und Anerkennung eingebracht. Da erhält Aubrey einen Brief: Sein Prisenagent hat ihn um die verdienten Anteilsgelder betrogen. Nicht nur seine Karriere gerät jetzt in gefährliche Fahrwasser, für die Mutter der jungen Frau, in die er sich verliebt hat, wird er auch zu einem...
Kapitänsleutnant Jack Aubrey genießt seinen verdienten Landurlaub: Fuchsjagden, anständige Musik, hier und da ein Opernbesuch. Sein letztes Gefecht...
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127,01 zł |
Desolation Island
ISBN: 9780393541625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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70,52 zł |
The Hundred Days
ISBN: 9781324021711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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68,04 zł |
The Rendezvous and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780393313802 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although the tone of this collection ranges effortlessly from the humorous to the dramatic, the most characteristic and memorable stories often have to do with a glimpse of savage, destructive forces through the fragile shell of human civilization. The threatened chaos may be psychological, as in "On the Wolfsberg," or it may be lurking in the natural world, as in "A Passage of the Frontier," or, as in the dark masterpiece "The Chian Wine," it is suddenly discovered in the ancient, irrational impulses of human nature The setting may be the marshes of western Ireland, the Pyrenees, or the...
Although the tone of this collection ranges effortlessly from the humorous to the dramatic, the most characteristic and memorable stories often have t...
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65,09 zł |
The Yellow Admiral
ISBN: 9780006499640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The fall and rise of Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, is set in counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, in this sequel to The Commodore. While savouring an apparent reprieve for his career, Aubrey receives news that Napoleon has escaped.
The fall and rise of Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, is set in counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, in this sequel to The Commodore. Whil...
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50,99 zł |