wyszukanych pozycji: 15
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Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine
ISBN: 9781780600703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine
Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with...
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94,23 zł |
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Wheels within Wheels: The Makings of a Traveller
ISBN: 9781906011406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Dervla Murphy begins her autobiography in Lismore, Co Waterford. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. She portrays the strain that her mother's increasing illness had on the family.
Dervla Murphy begins her autobiography in Lismore, Co Waterford. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. She portrays th...
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74,38 zł |
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On a Shoestring to Coorg
ISBN: 9781780600123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel planned to meander through southern India but along the way they fell in love with the remote mountain paradise of Coorg and stayed for two months. Murphy's account brings to life the beautiful landscapes and friendly people of a little-known part of India.
Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel planned to meander through southern India but along the way they fell in love with the remote mountain paradise ...
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74,38 zł |
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A Month By The Sea: Encounters in Gaza
ISBN: 9781780600673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A MONTH BY THE SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped this society: how it radicalises young men and plays into the hands of dominating patriarchs, yet also how it hardens determination not to give in and turns family into a towering source of support.
A MONTH BY THE SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped this society: how it radicalises young men and plays into the hands...
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64,46 zł |
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A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s
ISBN: 9781780600116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.
A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.
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74,38 zł |
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
ISBN: 9781906011413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Shortly after her tenth birthday, inspired by an atlas she was given, Dervla Murphy decided that she would one day cycle to India. Almost twenty years later she set out to achieve her ambition on her bicycle, Roz. Here she describes her journey and experiences.
Shortly after her tenth birthday, inspired by an atlas she was given, Dervla Murphy decided that she would one day cycle to India. Almost twenty years...
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74,38 zł |
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The Waiting Land
ISBN: 9781906011659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.
Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.
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64,46 zł |
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Silverland
ISBN: 9780719568299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan, Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. Here she discovers a strange world of lynx and elks, indigenous tribes and shamanism, reindeer broth and taiga-berry pie. She takes the coal-fuelled slow-train around regions hardly exposed to tourism and there she meets a host of colourful and generous characters. They invite this...
Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid...
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54,54 zł |
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The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba
ISBN: 9781906011468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Features a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. This book also builds a complex picture of a people struggling to retain their identity in the face of insistent hostility, and to stand against the all-but-overwhelming fire-power of capitalism.
Features a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. This book also builds a complex picture of a people struggling to retain their identity in the f...
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74,38 zł |
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Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals
ISBN: 9781784770815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals - Travel literature collection of tales of travelling with animals, both intentional and accidental. Includes stories from a mix of previously unpublished writers and old and modern favourites, from David Attenborough to Dion Leonard, Gerald Durrell, Isabella Bird and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals - Travel literature collection of tales of travelling with animals, both intentional and accide...
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54,54 zł |
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In Ethiopia with a Mule
ISBN: 9781906011673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for and understanding of another race.
In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitr...
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74,38 zł |
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Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
ISBN: 9780719565168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The eight feet referenced in the title belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter, and an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capitaltraveling over 1,300 miles in high altitudes. Despite extreme discomfort and occasional danger, mother and daughter, a formidable duo, were unflagging in their sympathetic response to the perilous beauty and impoverished people of the Andes."
The eight feet referenced in the title belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter, and an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of ...
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54,54 zł |
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Through Siberia by Accident
ISBN: 9780719566646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "Through Siberia by Accident" is an account of a journey that didn t happenand what happened instead. While still thousands of miles from her original destination, Ussuriland in the Russian Far East, Dervla Murphy found herself stymied by multiple minor injuries. This book is an extraordinary story of fortitude and resourcefulness as Murphy finds friendship and culture in one of the world s bleakest, most inhospitable regions."
"Through Siberia by Accident" is an account of a journey that didn t happenand what happened instead. While still thousands of miles from her original...
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54,54 zł |
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Life at Full Tilt: The Selected Writings of Dervla Murphy
ISBN: 9781780602110 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy s travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, before her first book, and follows in her tracks for over fifty years, including descriptions of her beloved Afghanistan in 1963, of the Peruvian Andes, of South, West and East Africa and most recently of the troubled territories of Palestine and Israel. Dervla s style of travel, to go somewhere that interested her and see who she met, made for fresh encounters every day, recorded faithfully each evening in her journal. She read hungrily to prepare for her journeys and folded her learning seamlessly...
Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy s travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, before her first book, and follows in her tracks for ove...
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124,04 zł |
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A Cure for Serpents
ISBN: 9780907871446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland, provided him with opportunities and experiences rarely given to a European. He brings us stories of noble chieftains and celebrated courtesans, of Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers, of giant elephants, and a lioness who fell in love with the author.
The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalila...
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74,38 zł |