wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham: Including His Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures
ISBN: 9781108038577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. He first went to sea as a boy, and, aged only ten, spent a period as a prisoner-of-war in Spain. He was expelled from India in 1823 for criticising the East India Company and the Bengal government. Back in London, he was a supporter of reform, and served as the first M.P. for the new constituency of Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. He founded several journals, including The Athenaeum. On retiring from Parliament, he left for...
James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egy...
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281,87 zł |
Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham: Including His Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures
ISBN: 9781108038584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. He first went to sea as a boy, and, aged only ten, spent a period as a prisoner-of-war in Spain. He was expelled from India in 1823 for criticising the East India Company and the Bengal government. Back in London, he was a supporter of reform, and served as the first M.P. for the new constituency of Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. He founded several journals, including The Athenaeum. On retiring from Parliament, he left for...
James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egy...
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322,14 zł |
The Eastern and Western States of America. [With plates.]
ISBN: 9781241322588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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149,96 zł |
Duelling: Reasons for Legislative Interference to Prevent the Practice of Duelling.
ISBN: 9781240086726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,81 zł |
Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Other British Provinces in North America: With a Plan of National Colonization
ISBN: 9781108033374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Cornish-born traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) campaigned energetically for social reform while a Member of Parliament during the 1830s. He later spent four years in North America, and in 1839 travelled on to Canada to investigate its social and economic landscape. In this revealing account, first published in 1843, Buckingham recalls his experiences in the Eastern provinces. He found the Canadians to be civilized, hospitable, hard working and unfailingly loyal to Britain (unlike the independent Americans, who he reports they despised). He also encountered evidence of...
The Cornish-born traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) campaigned energetically for social reform while a Member of Parliament during...
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379,68 zł |
America: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive
ISBN: 9781108032513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively throughout the world and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. In addition, he was a supporter of political reform and served as the first MP for Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. On retiring from Parliament, he left for North America, where he spent nearly four years, saying, 'I had a strong desire to add to the knowledge acquired of the Old World, by examining for myself the most favoured portion of the New'. He recounts part of his time in America during which he...
James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively throughout the world and published accounts of his adventures in places such ...
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379,68 zł |
The Slave States of America
ISBN: 9781429016322 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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167,84 zł |
Travels in Mesopotamia. Including a journey from Aleppo to Bagdad, by the route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin, and Mousul; with researches on the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and other ancient cities
ISBN: 9781241501457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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154,80 zł |
Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia
ISBN: 9781108042123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms. He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum. This illustrated two-volume work, published in 1829 and reprinted here from its second...
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the...
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356,66 zł |
Travels in Mesopotamia: With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities
ISBN: 9781108042147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms and for the promotion of the temperance movement. He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum, covering a wide range of topics from...
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the...
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339,40 zł |
America: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive
ISBN: 9781108032537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 634 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively throughout the world and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. In addition, he was a supporter of political reform and served as the first MP for Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. On retiring from Parliament, he left for North America, where he spent nearly four years, saying, 'I had a strong desire to add to the knowledge acquired of the Old World, by examining for myself the most favoured portion of the New'. He recounts part of his time in America during which he...
James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively throughout the world and published accounts of his adventures in places such ...
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379,68 zł |
The Eastern and Western States of America. [With plates.]
ISBN: 9781241134150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 626 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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154,80 zł |
Two Letters to Sir Charles Forbes: And Other Short Writings on the East India Company and the Freedom of the Press
ISBN: 9781108046459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces by James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) illuminate the concerns of a broad-minded traveller and the problems of governing an empire. A newspaperman, social reformer and fierce critic of the East India Company, Buckingham published the Calcutta Journal until his expulsion from India in 1823 for attacking vested interests. The first and second pieces reissued here are his open letters, written anonymously in 1824, to the M.P. Sir Charles Forbes regarding press freedom and the expulsion, without trial, of himself and another editor....
Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces by James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) illuminate the concerns of a broad-minded traveller...
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218,58 zł |
Travels in Palestine, Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan: Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in t
ISBN: 9781108042178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms and for the promotion of the temperance movement. He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum, covering a wide range of topics from...
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the...
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506,26 zł |
The Slave States of America
ISBN: 9781108033466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 614 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Cornish-born traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) campaigned energetically for social reform while a Member of Parliament during the 1830s. He later spent four years in the United States, and in 1839 travelled across the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama to observe at first hand the inhumane treatment of slaves in a system that showed 'reckless indifference to human life'. Originally published in 1842, and dedicated to Prince Albert, this two-volume work documents Buckingham's findings and argues that the USA should follow Britain's example in abolishing slavery....
The Cornish-born traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) campaigned energetically for social reform while a Member of Parliament during...
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379,68 zł |
The Eastern and Western States of America. [With plates.]
ISBN: 9781241342357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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154,80 zł |
National Evils and Practical Remedies: With a Plan for a Model Town
ISBN: 9781108036863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a Cornish-born traveller and writer. As a member of Parliament in the 1830s he campaigned for reforms in the army and navy as well as for the temperance movement. He travelled widely to the Middle East, Israel and America, wrote travel books and also founded a number of journals. One of these was The Athenaeum, a weekly London periodical covering a wide range of topics from literature to popular science. In this work, published in 1849, Buckingham names seven evils threatening contemporary society (ranging from ignorance from intemperance to war and...
James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a Cornish-born traveller and writer. As a member of Parliament in the 1830s he campaigned for reforms in the arm...
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396,94 zł |
America: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive
ISBN: 9781108032520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively throughout the world and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. In addition, he was a supporter of political reform and served as the first MP for Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. On retiring from Parliament, he left for North America, where he spent nearly four years, saying, 'I had a strong desire to add to the knowledge acquired of the Old World, by examining for myself the most favoured portion of the New'. He recounts part of his time in America during which he...
James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) was a writer who travelled extensively throughout the world and published accounts of his adventures in places such ...
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379,68 zł |
Travels in Palestine, through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan: including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis. [With plans and a portrait.]
ISBN: 9781241515836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 974 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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193,57 zł |
Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia
ISBN: 9781108042116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms. He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum. This illustrated two-volume work, published in 1829 and reprinted here from its second...
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the...
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cena:
396,94 zł |