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The Englishwoman in America (1856), By Isabella Bird (Original Version): Isabella Lucy Bird
ISBN: 9781535339957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1856, Isabella Bird published The Englishwoman in America, the first of what would be many books of her travels around the world. Adopting a tone of aloof bemusement, she describes in detail the hardships and annoyances of her travels by sea from England to Halifax, and on the road to Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago. The book's 20 chapters are full of keenly observed and entertainingly told stories of pickpockets and luggage thieves, greasy hotels, and Americans who are very polite, but have the unfortunate habit of spitting on the floor. Bird admits to sharing the regrettably prejudiced...
In 1856, Isabella Bird published The Englishwoman in America, the first of what would be many books of her travels around the world. Adopting a tone o...
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44,82 zł |
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A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) (Illustrated) by Isabella Bird
ISBN: 9781530874859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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29,62 zł |
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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume One, by Isabella Bird
ISBN: 9781530878505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,55 zł |
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Among the Tibetans (1894), by Isabella Bird (Illustrated)
ISBN: 9781530882403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,78 zł |
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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: 9781108045766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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171,12 zł |
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Among the Tibetans (1894) (Illustrated) by Isabella Bird
ISBN: 9781523388479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 - 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 the Reverend Edward Bird and his second wife Dora Lawson. 1] Isabella moved several times during her childhood. Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in...
Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane B...
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38,82 zł |
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Six Months in Hawaii
ISBN: 9781138981966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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103,69 zł |
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The Englishwoman in America (1856) by Isabella Bird (Original Classics)
ISBN: 9781530875009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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46,17 zł |
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A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) by: Isabella Bird
ISBN: 9781530346790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,32 zł |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
ISBN: 9781515134053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Excerpt from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko
Having been recommended to leave home, in April 1878, in order to recruit my health by means which had proved serviceable before, I decided to visit Japan, attracted less by the reputed excellence of its climate than by the certainty that it possessed, in an especial degree, those sources of novel and sustained interest which conduce so essentially to the enjoyment and restoration of a solitary health-seeker. The climate disappointed me, but,... Excerpt from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko
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44,82 zł |
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The Hawaiian archipelago; six months amongst palm groves, coral reefs, and: volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands, By Isabella L. Bird (MRS.BISHOP.), (pop
ISBN: 9781535340250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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.Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was a nineteenthcentury English traveller and writer. She was born in Boroughbridge and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. She was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with various ailments. Much of her illness may have been...
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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44,82 zł |
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Among the Tibetans
ISBN: 9789354784019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,75 zł |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird VOLUME I
ISBN: 9781530877232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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48,69 zł |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko
ISBN: 9780710308849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a narrative of travels in Japan undertaken in 1878 by someone who is probably the most famous female traveller and writer of the Victorian era. Travelling alone as a woman, she was the first to enter parts of Japan which had had no cultural contact whatsoever with a European, let alone a woman on her own. The letters which make up this work give a real picture of Japan and Japanese life at the time.
This is a narrative of travels in Japan undertaken in 1878 by someone who is probably the most famous female traveller and writer of the Victorian era...
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933,66 zł |
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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, by Isabella L. Bird complete volume I and II
ISBN: 9781530880430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,09 zł |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: Letters of Personal Adventure in 1873
ISBN: 9780857068408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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124,45 zł |
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Durch die Wildnis der Rocky Mountains : Allein unter Goldgräbern und Desperados
ISBN: 9783737400411 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2017 / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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92,19 zł |
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Among the Tibetans
ISBN: 9789888422524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,71 zł |
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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: 9781544271613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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. Early life: 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...
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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57,08 zł |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: in large print
ISBN: 9783387002096 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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358,52 zł |