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Africa Explored: Europeans on the Dark Continent, 1769-1889
ISBN: 9780815411932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Many outstanding men James Bruce, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others won lasting fame from their African journeys. Africa Explored collects their amazing tales of treks into the unknown. These tales of Europeans in Africa before the wave of colonialism mix exotic sights and startling customs with sympathetic meetings of Africa's people and scenes of sublime beauty. Africa Explored relates Mungo Park's being robbed and left for dead in the West African desert, then saved by repeated acts of kindness; Burton and Speke's search for the legendary Mountains...
Many outstanding men James Bruce, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others won lasting fame from their African jour...
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75,81 |
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The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici
ISBN: 9780140050905 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance,...
At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its ofte...
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76,68 |
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Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes
ISBN: 9780393322934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts,...
The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops...
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111,97 |
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The House of Medici
ISBN: 9780688053390 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and Galileo, benefactors who turned Florence into a global power center, and then lost it all.
The House of Medici picks up where Barbara Tuchman's Hibbert delves into the lives of the Medici family, whose legacy of increasing self-indulgence and sexual dalliance eventually led to its... It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and contr...
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Wolfe at Quebec: The Man Who Won the French and Indian War
ISBN: 9780815410164 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The last year in the life of British general James Wolfe.
The last year in the life of British general James Wolfe.
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63,81 |
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age
ISBN: 9780201608175 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers to perhaps the greatest monarch in history. A genius, beauty, manipulator, and leader, Elizabeth I has fascinated history buffs, anglophiles, and feminists for centuries. Black-and-white and color inserts.
Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers to perhaps the greatest monarch in history. A genius, beauty, manipulator, and le...
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The French Revolution
ISBN: 9780140049459 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup d'etat' that brought Napoleon to power ten years later. In the process he explains the drama and complexities of this epoch-making era in the compelling and accessible manner he has made his trademark. Writing in The Times, Richard...
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation...
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79,01 |
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The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment
ISBN: 9780313201981 / Angielski / Twarda / 1978 / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to the endeavors of those who have concerned themselves with the criminal and the prevention of crime, that cruelty punishment has an inevitable tendency to produce cruelty in people.
Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to t... |
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Florence: The Biography of a City
ISBN: 9780140166446 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all teh buildings and treasures of the city.
This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellousl...
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Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification: Hero of Italian Unification
ISBN: 9780230606067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for independence. During his fight for Italian unification Garibaldi personally led an army of local untrained rebels to victory in Palermo, Naples, and Sicily. His forces suffered from lack of equipment, food, and money, and yet Garabaldi commanded their fierce loyalty. Christopher Hibbert reveals how this iconic figure earned the adulation of not only his... Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prow... |
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