wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Bring Me Sunshine: A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, Snow-Capped Guide To Our Weather
ISBN: 9780349123738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather, but how much do we really know about it? In Bring Me Sunshine, Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island obsession. He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics, geniuses, rainmakers and cloud-busters and brings vividly to life great weather events from history. He sheds light on Britain's weirdest wind, why we have the wettest place in England to thank for the trusty pencil, the debt that umbrella owners owe to Robinson Crusoe...
We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather, but how...
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65,69 |
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Last Train to Hilversum: A journey in search of the magic of radio
ISBN: 9781408890004 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us every week. It's a background to all our lives: we wake up to our clock radios, we have the radio on in the kitchen as we make the tea, it's on at our workplaces and in our cars. From Listen With Mother to the illicit thrill of tuning into pirate stations like Radio Caroline; from receiving a musical education from John Peel or having our imagination unlocked by Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; from...
Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of ...
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56,89 |
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Stamping Grounds
ISBN: 9780349114880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. STAMPING GROUNDS follows the Liechtenstein national football team through their defeat-strewn qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup. Drawn in a group with Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria and mighty Spain, it was hard to see the principality's part-time players scoring even one goal, never mind adding to its meagre international points total. So what motivates a nation of 30,000 people and eleven villages to keep plugging away despite the inevitability of defeat? Travelling to all of Liechenstein's qualifying matches, Charlie Connelly examines what motivates a team to take the field...
STAMPING GROUNDS follows the Liechtenstein national football team through their defeat-strewn qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup. Drawn in a g...
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132,11 |
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Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast
ISBN: 9780349146270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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65,69 |
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The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
ISBN: 9781474607926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,58 |
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And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History
ISBN: 9780349120881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A wittily told journey through time as the author walks a series of famous historical journeys, uncovering British heritage and discovering the contemporary landscape.
A wittily told journey through time as the author walks a series of famous historical journeys, uncovering British heritage and discovering the contem...
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65,69 |
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Our Man in Hibernia: Ireland, the Irish and Me
ISBN: 9781408702086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. If you think you know Ireland, this book will make you think again. Each year on St Patrick's Day the eighty million people around the world claiming Irish ancestry celebrate their spiritual homeland. Millions more don leprechaun hats and swallow pints of Guinness in an annual global high-fiving of all things Irish.
Charlie Connelly was one of them. As a Londoner claiming Irish roots he thought he knew what Ireland was all about. Then, when he was least expecting it, he went to live there. Our Man In Hibernia follows Charlie's adventures living among the Irish. In an engaging and... If you think you know Ireland, this book will make you think again. Each year on St Patrick's Day the eighty million people around the world claiming ...
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132,11 |