wyszukanych pozycji: 30
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Złoty Szlak
ISBN: 9788384030288 / Polski / twarda / 2025 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Odkryj fascynującą historię, która zmieniła bieg dziejów!Przez półtora tysiąclecia Indie wpływały na otaczający je świat, dzieląc się swoją bogatą cywilizacją i tworząc nieformalne imperium idei, które rozciągało się od Morza Czerwonego po Pacyfik. Indyjska sztuka, religie, technologia, astronomia, muzyka, taniec, literatura, matematyka i mitologia wytyczały szlak łączący Wschód z Zachodem.William Dalrymple, czerpiąc z bogatego dorobku badań historycznych, ukazuje niesłusznie zapomnianą na Zachodzie rolę Indii jako serca starożytnej Eurazji. Wędrując...
Odkryj fascynującą historię, która zmieniła bieg dziejów!Przez półtora tysiąclecia Indie wpływały na otaczający je świat, dzieląc się s...
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99,00 |
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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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84,78 |
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Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
ISBN: 9781781301012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857. Edited by writer and historian William Dalrymple,...
As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officia...
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186,74 |
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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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Return of a King
ISBN: 9789353171377 / Marathi / Miękka / 2018 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,49 |
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
ISBN: 9781408864432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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75,44 |
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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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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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59,00 |
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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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85,50 |
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
ISBN: 9780142001004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits that are said to assure the city's Phoenix-like regeneration no matter how many times it is destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns...
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of ch...
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92,48 |
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In Xanadu: A Quest
ISBN: 9780006544159 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is an account of the quest which took William Dalrymple and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades
This is an account of the quest which took William Dalrymple and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villag...
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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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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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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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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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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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77,07 |
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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
ISBN: 9781408864395 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In his most ambitious book to date, bestselling historian William Dalrymple tells the timely and cautionary tale of the rise of the East India Company and one of the most supreme acts of corporate violence in world history
In his most ambitious book to date, bestselling historian William Dalrymple tells the timely and cautionary tale of the rise of the East India Company...
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75,44 |
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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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65,37 |
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
ISBN: 9781408864418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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150,97 |
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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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75,44 |