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Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989
ISBN: 9780140256987 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span a world of topics--from art and antiques to archaeology and architecture. This spirited collection of previously neglected or unpublished essays, articles, short stories, travel sketches, and criticism represents every aspect and period of Chatwin's career as it reveals an abiding theme in his work: his fascination with, and hunger for, the peripatetic existence. While Chatwin's poignant search for a...
Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that r...
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103,32 zł |
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Traumpfade, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783742421630 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Nie ohne ein Moleskine-Heft trat Bruce Chatwin seine Reisen an, die ihn ab 1962 nach Asien, Osteuropa, Westafrika, Lateinamerika und Australien führten. In seinem Buch »Traumpfade« ist er den gleichnamigen mythischen Wegen auf der Spur, die den australischen Kontinent durchziehen und entlang derer die Ahnen der Ureinwohner wanderten. Sein Roman, der 1987 veröffentlicht wurde, ist durchzogen von beeindruckenden Landschaftsbeschreibungen und Erlebnissen, die Chatwin auf der Reise in sein Notizheft notierte. Gert Heidenreich gibt diesem literarischen Nomaden eine authentische...
Nie ohne ein Moleskine-Heft trat Bruce Chatwin seine Reisen an, die ihn ab 1962 nach Asien, Osteuropa, Westafrika, Lateinamerika und Australien führt...
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67,88 zł |
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What Am I Doing Here?
ISBN: 9780099769811 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Presenting a collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, the author takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Gandhi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is the Road.
Presenting a collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, the author takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Bo...
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66,14 zł |
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The Viceroy of Ouidah
ISBN: 9780140112900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade fo...
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94,71 zł |
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Utz: As Seen on BBC Between the Covers
ISBN: 9780099770015 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain.
Traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individ...
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54,55 zł |
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What Am I Doing Here
ISBN: 9780140115772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here is a journey into the interior of a celebrated novelist and traveler, charged with all of the narrative power and intellectual challenge of his fiction.
Here is a journey into the interior of a celebrated novelist and traveler, charged with all of the narrative power and intellectual challenge of his f...
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103,32 zł |
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The Viceroy of Ouidah
ISBN: 9780099769613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Francisco Manoel da Silva, a poor Brazilian sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey in the early 1800s, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah, and friend to the mad, mercurial king.
Francisco Manoel da Silva, a poor Brazilian sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey in the early 1800s, determined to make his fortune in the slave t...
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50,87 zł |
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The Songlines
ISBN: 9780099769910 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Songlines' or 'Dreaming Tracks' are what Europeans call the invisible pathways that meander all over Australia. From such lines Chatwin has been able to trace a great deal about an Aboriginal culture as complex as it is different from our own.
'Songlines' or 'Dreaming Tracks' are what Europeans call the invisible pathways that meander all over Australia. From such lines Chatwin has been able...
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60,01 zł |
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Utz
ISBN: 9780140115765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat.
Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although he has considered defection, he always returns. He cannot take his precious collection with him, but he cannot leave it, either. And so Utz is as much owned by his porcelain as it is owned by him, as much of a prisoner of the collection as of the Communist state. A fascinating, enigmatic... Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's year...
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94,71 zł |
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The Novels
ISBN: 9781784705831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. While Bruce Chatwin is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novels must not be overlooked. And in The Viceroy of Ouidah, an ambitious slave trader makes a choice that could threaten his ultimate dream.
While Bruce Chatwin is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novels must not be overlooked. And in The Viceroy of Ouidah, a...
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76,32 zł |
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Under The Sun : The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
ISBN: 9780099466147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The definitive collection of the letters of the enigmatic writer, providing new perspectives on his extraordinary life. Selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare, with an introduction by Elizabeth Chatwin.
"I am most certainly in the mood for writing letters." Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, assimilating elements of fiction, essay, reportage, history and gossip, inspired by and reflecting his incredible journeys. Tragically,... The definitive collection of the letters of the enigmatic writer, providing new perspectives on his extraordinary life. Selected and edited by Elizabe...
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98,23 zł |
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In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)
ISBN: 9781784875367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia was published in 1977 it heralded the arrival of a startling new talent in British literature. All readers recognised its timeless quality - Auberon Waugh went as far as to call it `a classic'.
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia was published in 1977 it h...
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60,01 zł |
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In Patagonia
ISBN: 9780142437193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through "the uttermost part of the earth"--that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once...
The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that s...
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77,49 zł |
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In Patagonia
ISBN: 9780099769514 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The book that redefined travel writing. "Guardian"
In Patagonia is a quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, in the course of his travels, describes his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road." The book that redefined travel writing. "Guardian"
In Patagonia is a quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin trav... |
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60,01 zł |
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On the Black Hill
ISBN: 9780143119067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nothing in Chatwin's previous work prepares us for the dramatic intensity with which scene after scene of the novel is brought to light.
Nothing in Chatwin's previous work prepares us for the dramatic intensity with which scene after scene of the novel is brought to light.
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94,71 zł |
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The Songlines
ISBN: 9780142422571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. Set in the desolate lands of the Australian Outback, it tells the story of Chatwin's search for the source and meaning of the ancient -dreaming tracks- of the Aborigines--the labyrinth of invisible pathways by which their ancestors -sang- the world into existence. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller... For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure... |
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77,49 zł |
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