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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
ISBN: 9781408831595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most...
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British a...
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65,84 zł |
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Kalijuga. Wiek waśni i sporów
ISBN: 9788365613608 / Polski / Twarda / 2017 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. William Dalrymple, autor niemal magicznego opisu Indii zawartego w „Mieście dżinów”, powraca na subkontynent w serii znakomitych esejów.
Na kartach książki znajdziemy 15-letnie partyzantki i królowe-wdowy, huczne zabawy na ulicach Bombaju i krwawe rodowe waśnie w prowincjonalnych wioskach, grupę wegetariańskich terrorystów planujących zniszczenie pierwszego w Indiach baru KFC, pałac w którym wciąż jeszcze kieliszek porto i cygara rozwozi wśród gości miniaturowy pociąg parowy wykonany w całości ze srebra... Dalrymple spotyka na swojej drodze takie postaci jak Imran... William Dalrymple, autor niemal magicznego opisu Indii zawartego w „Mieście dżinów”, powraca na subkontynent w serii znakomitych esejów.
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37,05 zł |
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Return of a King
ISBN: 9789353171377 / Marathi / Miękka / 2018 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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131,08 zł |
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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
ISBN: 9780307474469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of re... |
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95,40 zł |
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Ze Świętej Góry
ISBN: 9788365613059 / Polski / Twarda / 2017 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Bogata mieszanka historii i duchowości, przygód i polityki, powiązana nicią czarnego humoru, znanego czytelnikom Williama Dalrymple’a z jego poprzednich utworów.
W 587 roku naszej ery, dwóch mnichów, Jan Moschos i Sofista Sofroniusz, rozpoczynają niesamowitą podróż przez świat bizantyjski, od brzegów Bosforu po piaskowe wydmy Egiptu. Ich celem jest zebrać mądrość mędrców i mistyków z Bizantyjskiego Wschodu przed upadkiem ich delikatnego świata pod siłą Islamu. Prawie 1500 lat później, wykorzystując pisma Jana Moschosa jako swój przewodnik, William Dalrymple... Bogata mieszanka historii i duchowości, przygód i polityki, powiązana nicią czarnego humoru, znanego czytelnikom Williama Dalrymple’a z jego pop...
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56,05 zł |
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857
ISBN: 9781408800928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The last of the Great Mughals was Bahadur Shah Zafar II. This book charts the desecration and demise of this man, his dynasty, his city and civilizations mercilessly ravished by fractured forces and vengeful British troops. It provides an understanding of a pivotal moment in Indian and Imperial history.
The last of the Great Mughals was Bahadur Shah Zafar II. This book charts the desecration and demise of this man, his dynasty, his city and civilizati...
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75,98 zł |
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
ISBN: 9780805061772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes "an evensong... In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the... |
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112,75 zł |
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
ISBN: 9781635573954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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151,78 zł |
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
ISBN: 9780006547747 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 483 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journe...
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65,84 zł |
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In Xanadu: A Quest
ISBN: 9780307948885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. William Dalrymple's award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo's 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.
At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. As he and his companions travel across the width of Asia--crossing through Acre, Aleppo, Tabriz, Tashkurgan, and other mysterious and sometimes hellish places--they encounter dusty, forgotten roads, unexpected hospitality, and... William Dalrymple's award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo'...
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82,39 zł |
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
ISBN: 9781408864425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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96,24 zł |
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
ISBN: 9781635575804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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95,40 zł |
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-Century India
ISBN: 9780006550969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the early 16th century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny, the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. This book uncovers a world unexplored by history, and places at its centre a tale of betrayal.
From the early 16th century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny, the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarra...
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101,31 zł |
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
ISBN: 9780307948908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the age of darkness predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, Dalrymple encountered a region that thrilled and surprised him. Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he presents compelling portraits of a diverse range of figures from a Hindi rap megastar through...
From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the In...
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86,73 zł |
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
ISBN: 9780142004128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa 'Most excellent among Women' the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister and a descendant of the Prophet. Kirkpatrick had gone out to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjection of the subcontinent.... White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious a...
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130,10 zł |
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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
ISBN: 9781408878194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India
Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India
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65,84 zł |
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City of Djinns
ISBN: 9780006375951 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Alive with the mayhem of the present and sparkling with William Dalrymple's irrepressible wit, City of Djinns is a fascinating portrait of a city.
Alive with the mayhem of the present and sparkling with William Dalrymple's irrepressible wit, City of Djinns is a fascinating portrait of a city.
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65,84 zł |
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
ISBN: 9781408864418 / Twarda / 2024 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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152,03 zł |
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The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India
ISBN: 9780006547754 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Featured in the pages of The Age of Kali are flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds as well as a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet.
Featured in the pages of The Age of Kali are flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds as well as a group of vegetarian terrorists ...
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65,84 zł |
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From the Holy Mountain
ISBN: 9780307948892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written...
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, tr...
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91,07 zł |
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