wyszukanych pozycji: 12
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning
ISBN: 9780140179378 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A powerful chronicle of a wounded woman's exploration of nature and self
After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a painstaking and visionary journey back to the land of the living. With the help of an extraordinary cardiologist and the companionship of her beloved dog Sam, she avidly explores the natural and spiritual world to make sense of what happened to her. We follow as she combs every inch of her new home on the California coast, attends a convention of lightning-strike victims, and goes on a seal... A powerful chronicle of a wounded woman's exploration of nature and self
After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near he... |
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104,83 zł |
Drinking Dry Clouds: Stories from Wyoming
ISBN: 9780803267541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drinking Dry Clouds is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing. This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowboys, waitresses, and bartenders along with Japanese Americans interned at Wyoming s Heart Mountain. Many of these characters were introduced in Ehrlich s novel Heart Mountain. As she explains, When I returned to my characters, five years after their initial appearance in my life, they seemed to want to report to me, so I let them speak in the first person. "
Drinking Dry Clouds is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing. This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowb...
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78,66 zł |
Islands, the Universe, Home
ISBN: 9780140109078 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of isolation and wonder, of pain and grace, and these elements ignite her vivid imagination. She writes of ravens and elk and prairie dogs, and eagles falling out of the sky. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her "bridge to heaven." She captures a "light moving down a mountain slope." One evening there is a contrapuntal dance of death: a calf she has tried to save, and a friend and mentor both die. She remembers what a painter once told her when she was twelve years old, as he was painting her portrait: "You have to mix death...
Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of isolation and wonder, of pain and grace, and these elements ignite her vivid imagination. She writes of ravens and el...
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104,83 zł |
Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist
ISBN: 9780807073117 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "In spare, lyrical prose, Ehrlich inventively recounts her 1995 spiritual trip to China and Tibet. . . . Delicate, deeply considered, and moving." --Publishers Weekly
"In spare, lyrical prose, Ehrlich inventively recounts her 1995 spiritual trip to China and Tibet. . . . Delicate, deeply considered, and moving." --P...
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98,03 zł |
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
ISBN: 9780307949271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Kirkus Best Books of the Year Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year Kirkus Best Books of the Year Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year |
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100,46 zł |
The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
ISBN: 9781400034352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich s love for winter for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul and also out of the fear that our democracy of gratification has irreparably altered the climate.
Over the course of a year, Ehrlich experiences firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, giving us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. From Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world, she explores how our very... This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich s love for winter for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates ou...
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78,62 zł |
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
ISBN: 9780679758525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine.
Ehrlich unlocks the secrets of this severe land and those who live there; a hardy people who still travel by dogsled and kayak and prefer the mystical four months a year of endless darkness to the gentler summers without night. She discovers the twenty-three words the Inuit... For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice...
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96,10 zł |
The Solace of Open Spaces
ISBN: 9780140081138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a true celebration of the region.
A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a tr...
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74,26 zł |
The Solace of Open Spaces
ISBN: 9781911547334 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,87 zł |
My First Summer in the Sierra
ISBN: 9780140255706 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, ...
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78,62 zł |
Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North
ISBN: 9781626549296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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161,20 zł |
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
ISBN: 9780395911518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Complete with its original N.C. Wyeth illustrations is this outstanding first-person chronicle of life on the American frontier.
Complete with its original N.C. Wyeth illustrations is this outstanding first-person chronicle of life on the American frontier.
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74,21 zł |