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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
ISBN: 9780060560652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers--and fortune hunters--than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle Ages, held the promise of wealth and fame for the first explorer to make it there. In 1824, the French Geographical Society offered a cash prize to the first expedition from any nation to visit Timbuktu and return to tell the tale. One of the contenders was Major Alexander Gordon Laing, a thirty-year-old army officer. Handsome and... In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers--and fortune hunters--than... |
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The Power of Light
ISBN: 9780071700689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An original investigation into the social and technological history of solar powerFrom the days of Archimedes and Leonardo, the earliest efforts to harness the power of the sun have become the stuff of legend.But it was not until the industrial revolution, with its great demands for fuel, that inventors --like Prometheus carrying fire from Mt. Olympus--began to build machines capable of channeling the sun's rays into usable energy.In The Power of Light, solar energy expert Frank Kryza recounts the dramatic saga of solar invention, from its optimistic dawning in the mid-19th century to its...
An original investigation into the social and technological history of solar powerFrom the days of Archimedes and Leonardo, the earliest efforts to ha...
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