wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Ruth's Journey: A Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
ISBN: 9781451643541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched, Donald McCaig's Ruth's Journey brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in Gone with the Wind. This is a brave work of literary empathy by a writer at the height of his powers, who demonstrates a magisterial understanding of the period, its clashing cultures, and its heartbreaking crises" (Geraldine Brooks, author of March). "Her story began with a miracle." On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor--an...
"Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched, Donald McCaig's Ruth's Journey brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in ...
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82,75 zł |
Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
ISBN: 9780393337105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his award-winning novel of the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of America's greatest war.
In his award-winning novel of the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart ...
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139,22 zł |
Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
ISBN: 9780813934501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The New York Times-bestselling author Donald McCaig has established an expansive literary career, founded equally on books about working sheepdogs and the Civil War novels Jacob's Ladder and Rhett Butler's People, the official sequel to Gone with the Wind. In his new book, Mr. and Mrs. Dog, McCaig draws on twenty-five years of experience raising sheepdogs to vividly describe his--and his dogs June and Luke's--unlikely progress toward and participation in the World Sheepdog Trials in Wales. McCaig engagingly chronicles the often grueling... The New York Times-bestselling author Donald McCaig has established an expansive literary career, founded equally on books about working she... |
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100,00 zł |
An American Homeplace
ISBN: 9780813917757 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCaig wites with a powerful sense of place, and of history of Virginia's Highland County, in An American Homeplace. On the fast track in the New York advertising world, McCaig gave it all up to move to a ramshackle farm in Virginia's upper Cowpasture River Valley. Enhanced by the author's evident love for his land and for the stories it has to tell, An American Homeplace is an inviting combination of personal memoir and narrative history. In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCaig wites with a powerful sense of place, and of history of Virginia's Highland County... |
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82,57 zł |
Rhett Butler's People: The Authorized Novel based on Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
ISBN: 9781250065308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable pages:... Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Grea... |
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100,22 zł |
Nop's Trials
ISBN: 9781599211367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. “Nop’s Trials held me in fascinated suspense to the last page. It is poignant, authentic, and beautiful. This story of a man’s dedication to his dog is as gripping as any thriller.” —James Herriot “An adult novel for animal lovers that does justice to both its human and canine characters . . . with crispness and authenticity.” —New York Times Book...
“Nop’s Trials held me in fascinated suspense to the last page. It is poignant, authentic, and beautiful. This story of a manR...
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65,47 zł |
The Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club
ISBN: 9780983484509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Well-known writer Donald McCaig turns his attention in The Dog Wars to the 1990s controversy between the working border collie community and the American Kennel Club. Chronicling a critical turning point in the history of the border collie, The Dog Wars is a must read for anyone interested in the culture of dogs in the United States.
Well-known writer Donald McCaig turns his attention in The Dog Wars to the 1990s controversy between the working border collie community and the Ameri...
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128,31 zł |
Canaan
ISBN: 9780393330465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Canaan fills a vast canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street; a Virginia plantation; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer--Yellowhair--rides to his fate against Sitting Bull's warriors. This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, and red, ex-Union and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman She Goes Before who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by... Canaan fills a vast canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street; a Vi... |
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117,43 zł |
Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
ISBN: 9780813935751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The New York Times-bestselling author Donald McCaig has established an expansive literary career, founded equally on books about working sheepdogs and the Civil War novels Jacob's Ladder and Rhett Butler's People, the official sequel to Gone with the Wind. In his new book, Mr. and Mrs. Dog, McCaig draws on twenty-five years of experience raising sheepdogs to vividly describe his--and his dogs June and Luke's--unlikely progress toward and participation in the World Sheepdog Trials in Wales. McCaig engagingly chronicles the often grueling... The New York Times-bestselling author Donald McCaig has established an expansive literary career, founded equally on books about working she... |
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65,14 zł |
Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland For A Border Collie
ISBN: 9781599210599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. According to a Scottish saying, -There is no good flock without a good shepherd, and there is no good shepherd without a good dog.- Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men is the story of Donald McCaig's search through rural Scotland for just the right sheepdog to bring back to his farm in West Virginia. McCaig delves into the mysterious pact between dog and man, which involves trust and deep communication. Traveling the countryside, to competitions and farms, meeting shepherds and trainers, McCaig introduces us to unforgettable animal and human characters. A must for dog lovers, and anyone interested in...
According to a Scottish saying, -There is no good flock without a good shepherd, and there is no good shepherd without a good dog.- Eminent Dogs, Dang...
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65,47 zł |