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Lost in the Backwoods: Scots and the North American Wilderness
ISBN: 9780748647392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect...
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with...
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410,17 zł |
Lost in the Backwoods: Scots and the North American Wilderness
ISBN: 9780748647385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect...
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with...
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123,00 zł |
The Scottish Novels: Kidnapped: Catriona: The Master of Ballantrae: Weir of Hermiston
ISBN: 9780862415334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Tour great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bittersweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character in the 18th century, and (some would say) the present day. The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love, and betrayal which draws them to their end in the...
Tour great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bittersweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and i...
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81,84 zł |