wyszukanych pozycji: 123
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Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands: The Hawaiian Archipelago
ISBN: 9781108028141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831 1904) toured the United States and Canada, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Far East, India, Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan. Her accounts of her travels, written in the form of letters to her sister, were bestsellers. In 1875 she published her account of six months in the Hawaiian archipelago. During this time she explored the islands on horseback, visiting volcanos, climbing mountains, and living with the natives. The book includes considerable detail about...
Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831 1904) toured the...
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371,08 |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
ISBN: 9781722405014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,92 |
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Korea and Her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country
ISBN: 9781108045759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop, 1831 1904) was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. Her accounts of travel in America, Hawaii, Japan and Persia were best-sellers. This two-volume work, first published in 1898, was one of the books arising from Bird's visit to Korea and China between 1894 and 1897, the other being The Yangtse Valley and Beyond (1899), also available in this series. Korea was a battleground during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 5, and subsequently became increasingly dominated by Japan, being annexed fully in 1910. Bird...
Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop, 1831 1904) was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. Her acco...
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244,00 |
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The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither
ISBN: 9789888552092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,85 |
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan; an account of travels in the interior including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrine of Nikko: By: Isabella L.(Lu
ISBN: 9781540507167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar.She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866).Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it...
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and n...
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird(volume II) whut map and ilustratio
ISBN: 9781530877430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan An Account of Travels
ISBN: 9781508820482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable p...
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44,10 |
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels on horseback in the interior: including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrines of Nikk
ISBN: 9781540508232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bird's sex but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hardscrabble lives...... Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial...
This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bi...
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80,22 |
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Among the Tibetans
ISBN: 9781544600451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Its inhabitants, chiefly Moslems, infamously governed by Hindus, are a feeble race, attracting little interest, valuable to travellers as 'coolies' or porters, and repulsive to them from the mingled cunning and obsequiousness which have been fostered by ages of oppression. But even for them there is the dawn of hope, for the Church Missionary Society has a strong medical and educational mission at the capital, a hospital and dispensary under the charge of a lady M.D. have been opened for women, and a capable and upright 'settlement officer, ' lent by the Indian Government, is investigating...
Its inhabitants, chiefly Moslems, infamously governed by Hindus, are a feeble race, attracting little interest, valuable to travellers as 'coolies' or...
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27,65 |
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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan-Volume II (Illustrated), by Isabella L. Bird
ISBN: 9781530879960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,34 |
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The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither
ISBN: 9781515134060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither
The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither
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40,09 |
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The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory
ISBN: 9781108013895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, first published in 1899, contains the account by the redoubtable Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop) of a journey through central China in 1896 1897. The volume focuses on her travels though the province of Szechuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory. Many of the areas she explored and carefully described were almost unknown to European visitors and had not been mentioned in any earlier English publications. The volume is based on journal letters and the diary written during her journey, and it is generously illustrated with photographs and Chinese...
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, first published in 1899, contains the account by the redoubtable Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop) of a journey thro...
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401,57 |
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Among the Tibetans
ISBN: 9789354784019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,17 |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: Volume 14
ISBN: 9780806113289 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic... In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adven... |
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Among the Tibetans
ISBN: 9789888422524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,17 |
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Englishwoman in America ( 1856) by Isabella L. Bird (Classics)
ISBN: 9781530888511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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47,80 |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
ISBN: 9788027284931 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a book by the English travel writer Isabella Bird, in the form of letters to her sister, describing her journey from Tokyo to Hokkaido in 1878 when she was 47. The book records in great detail her responses to Japanese houses, clothing and customs, and the natural environment, as they were during the early years of the Meiji Restoration. It also has a long section describing her visits to the Ainu people, and many passages describing what seemed to her the extreme poverty of many Japanese outside the major cities.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a book by the English travel writer Isabella Bird, in the form of letters to her sister, describing her journey from Tokyo...
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63,82 |
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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 1: Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs
ISBN: 9781108014694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, Bird toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. After her marriage, and the death of her husband in 1886, she did missionary work in India and then, in 1890, travelled to little-known parts of Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan in the company of Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army. This came to be the hardest journey of her experience, with...
Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. Recommended an open-air lif...
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264,33 |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: Victorian Travelogue Series (Annotated)
ISBN: 9781611040746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,91 |
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Among the Tibetans.(1894) By: Isabella Bird Bishop
ISBN: 9781532732744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,91 |