wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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The Fruit Palace
ISBN: 9780099274049 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This narrative records a journalist's adventures on the trail of The Great Cocaine Story in Colombia. It follows him from the seedy backstreet bars of Bogota to fashionable beach resorts. The people he meets include the fixers, smugglers, cooks, mules, the corner boys and the streetgirls.
This narrative records a journalist's adventures on the trail of The Great Cocaine Story in Colombia. It follows him from the seedy backstreet bars of...
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82,27 |
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The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
ISBN: 9780143114628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked amid the bustle of early seventeenth-century London. This elegant, often unexpected exploration presents a new and original look at...
In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In Th...
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114,35 |
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Traces Remain : Essays and Explorations
ISBN: 9780140296822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In these eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time. His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the disappearance of Jim Thompson in 1960s Malaya.
In these eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one o...
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56,54 |
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Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91
ISBN: 9781780601694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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75,62 |
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Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma
ISBN: 9781780601687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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65,53 |
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The Creature in the Map
ISBN: 9780226580258 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "This brilliantly written reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey combines painstaking scholarship, vivid travelogue, and an intuitive sensitivity for the many meanings of the El Dorado myth. . . . Nicholl brings this six-week expedition to life. . . . A rare treat for both intellect and imagination."-Kirkus Reviews
"Walter Raleigh . . . was one of those Elizabethan all-rounders who still seem staggeringly larger than life. . . . Mr. Nicholl's cogent reconstruction of the journey uses Raleigh's own account, 'The Discoverie of Guiana'-part truth, part... "This brilliantly written reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey combines painstaking scholarship, vivid travelogue, and a...
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133,77 |
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The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
ISBN: 9780141023748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 'The Lodger' is an original literary detective story, and an entirely new biographical take on Shakespeare's life, focusing on the years of his resident on Silver Street, 1602-1604.
'The Lodger' is an original literary detective story, and an entirely new biographical take on Shakespeare's life, focusing on the years of his reside...
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65,53 |
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind
ISBN: 9780140296815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades.
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation,...
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95,79 |
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
ISBN: 9780099437475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This is an investigation of the killing of Christopher Marlowe, tracing his shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. Critical new evidence is uncovered about his three companions on that last day in Deptford and about the sinister role of the informer Richard Baines. The Reckoning is also a revelation of the whole extraordinary underworld of Elizabethan crime and espioinage, a secret theatre in which nearly every historical figure familiar to us, from hack poet to queen's high minister, seems to have...
This is an investigation of the killing of Christopher Marlowe, tracing his shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, a...
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cena:
75,62 |