wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Chinese Sudoku: Practice Chinese numbers AND play the world's best mind game at the same time!
ISBN: 9789888552931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,15 zł |
The Formosa Fraud
ISBN: 9789888422128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than 300 years ago, the island of Taiwan was a topic of hot controversy in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born on the island. He made highly controversial claims about the life and the history of Taiwan, then called Formosa, and his book on the subject was a publishing sensation in London in 1704. His name, George Psalmanazar, was fake, and he never told anyone what his real name was or where he came from. But his Formosan stories of mass killings of young boys, of people living underground, of elephants and camels and gold mines was...
More than 300 years ago, the island of Taiwan was a topic of hot controversy in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claimi...
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87,80 zł |
Tales of Old Shanghai: The Glorious Past of China's Greatest City
ISBN: 9789881762115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West and this engaging book offers a glimpse into that world through an assortment of photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, stamps, and other collectibles. Evoking different eras, this record also contains vintage advertisements, excerpts from travel guides, flyers handed out to ex-pats highlighting Shanghai s international atmosphere, and often hilarious firsthand accounts from those who had the opportunity to live in or pass through this bustling trade port. The scrapbook format allows readers to either read from the...
The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West and this engaging book offers a glimpse into that world through an assortment of...
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78,04 zł |
Tales of Old San Francisco: The Rich Past of America's Most Magical City
ISBN: 9789888273256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,04 zł |
Lyrics to Amuse Volume 1
ISBN: 9789888843459 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,56 zł |
The Genius of Chinese Characters
ISBN: 9789888552825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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121,96 zł |
All About Shanghai and Environs [With Sketch Map]
ISBN: 9789881762146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A classic guidebook from Shanghai's roaring 1930s. Written with first-hand authority and an enthusiasm that is truly infectious, the authors captured and bottled the madness, excitement, depravity and fast bucks of the greatest boomtown the world had ever seen. Written as a guide for newcomers and visitors, this book today is a fascinating portrait of the old Shanghai in its heyday, enjoying every minute of the ride.
A classic guidebook from Shanghai's roaring 1930s. Written with first-hand authority and an enthusiasm that is truly infectious, the authors captured ...
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92,68 zł |
Lost China
ISBN: 9789888552122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of travel memoirs published, particularly in the golden era of the late nineteenth century.
Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of travel me...
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82,92 zł |
Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby
ISBN: 9789889987480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight.
This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Sha...
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73,15 zł |
Two Years in the Forbidden City
ISBN: 9789881714992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For two years, Princess Der Ling was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the imperial palace in Beijing. This book provides a unique and surprisingly intimate portrait of the Dragon Lady, who ruled China for 47 years, and brought the country to the brink of destruction. Der Ling refers to the larger political context on many occasions. But the best parts of the book are the small details. What emerges is an intimate portrait of the life and personality of the Empress Dowager, and a sense of the inner workings of the highly secretive world of the imperial palace.
For two years, Princess Der Ling was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the imperial palace in Beijing. This book provides a ...
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82,92 zł |
The Back Blocks of China: The story of an epic journey through southwest China in 1900. With a new Preface by Graham Earnshaw
ISBN: 9789888769025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,04 zł |
The Tâo and its Characteristics
ISBN: 9789888273867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,56 zł |
On the Road to Tibet
ISBN: 9789888769148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,04 zł |
Musings of a Chinese Gourmet
ISBN: 9789881732606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book, written in the early 1950s by a former Chinese ambassador to London, is a cultured and entertaining view of the gastronomic side of Chinese life. F.T. Cheng sets out to show Westerners that there was a lot more to Chinese food culture than chop suey. It is a wonderful reminder of the richness and depth of Chinese culture from a man who also completely understood the West.
This book, written in the early 1950s by a former Chinese ambassador to London, is a cultured and entertaining view of the gastronomic side of Chinese...
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82,92 zł |
Across China on Foot
ISBN: 9789889987442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book, first published in 1911, is one of the most important and best written travel books from old China. Edwin Dingle recounts his adventures as he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild and woolly territory to Burma. Along the way, Dingle absorbed an enormous amount of about life and society in southwest China, and describes what he sees in a readable and sensitive way.
This book, first published in 1911, is one of the most important and best written travel books from old China. Edwin Dingle recounts his adventures as...
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97,56 zł |
Willow Pattern Walkabout
ISBN: 9789881866714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed and inscrutable. Emerging from the writings of Kirwan Ward and the drawings of Paul Rigby is a picture of China at a key moment in its historystill feeding off the exhilaration of the creation of People s China in 1949 and full of optimism and blind idealism. A rich collection of insights and observations tinged with skepticism and good humor, this record offers a western perspective of China during Mao Tse-tung's leadership."
Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed an...
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92,68 zł |