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Elephant Complex
ISBN: 9781782067993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A Spectator Book of the Year 2015. From Ceylon to the Tamil Tigers, the first in-depth account of Sri Lanka by an award-winning travel writer.
A Spectator Book of the Year 2015. From Ceylon to the Tamil Tigers, the first in-depth account of Sri Lanka by an award-winning travel writer.
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75,98 zł |
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Dzikie Wybrzeże. Podróż skrajem Ameryki Południowe
ISBN: 9788380497627 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 2018 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Gujana. Kraina tysiąca rzek, zachłannej puszczy, zapomnianych plemion. Dzikie Wybrzeże. Przeżyć można tylko, podróżując wąskim pasem brzegowym – z każdym kilometrem w głąb lądu rośnie ryzyko złapania egzotycznej choroby, rozszarpania przez dzikie zwierzęta czy utopienia w wartkim strumieniu. Ale to także piękny świat fosforyzującej zieleni oraz nieodkrytych gatunków zwierząt.
Ta niezwykła uroda, dziki charakter oraz wspomnienia o przodku, któremu marzyło się cukrowe królestwo na wybrzeżu Gujany, pchnęły Johna Gimlette’a na wyprawę wzdłuż nieposkromionego... Gujana. Kraina tysiąca rzek, zachłannej puszczy, zapomnianych plemion. Dzikie Wybrzeże. Przeżyć można tylko, podróżując wąskim pasem brzegow...
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42,20 zł |
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Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
ISBN: 9781846682537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Beautiful and occasionally brutal, it is one of the great forgotten corners of the Earth: the Wild Coast. The author sets off along this coast, gathering up its story.
Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumb...
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55,70 zł |
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Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
ISBN: 9781400078530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest characters you'll ever find. In Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette vividly describes the dense forests and forbidding coastlines and recounts the colorful and often tragic history of the region. He introduces us to the inhabitants, from the birds and moose to the descendants of the outlaws, deserters, and fishermen who settled this eastern edge of North America. Leavened with irreverence and affection, this is an irresistible portrait of...
Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest...
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82,39 zł |
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Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780345806994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -Brilliant.- --The Daily Telegraph
No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the island's 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Portuguese forts; to the -Bible Belt- of Buddhism; then up into Kandy, the country's eccentric, aristocratic Shangri-la. In the course of his journey,... -Brilliant.- --The Daily Telegraph
No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures... |
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91,07 zł |
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Malay Poisons and Charm Cures
ISBN: 9789745241442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Focuses on the pharmacopoeia and practices of Malay healers, shamans (bomoh) and sorcerers (pawing). This title not only deals with the traditional pharmacology and toxicology, native theories of disease, medical practice, religious ritual and superstition, but also with the Malay anthropology generally.
Focuses on the pharmacopoeia and practices of Malay healers, shamans (bomoh) and sorcerers (pawing). This title not only deals with the traditional ph...
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130,10 zł |
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The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story
ISBN: 9781788544733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A portrait of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of endemic species), as well as for its tangled and troubled history.
A portrait of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of end...
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55,70 zł |
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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay
ISBN: 9780099416555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay -- South America's darkly fabled, little-known "island surrounded by land."
Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette's eye-opening book -- equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide -- breaches the boundaries of this isolated land," and illuminates a little-understood place and its people. It is a wonderfully animated... A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay -- South America's darkly fabled, little-known "island surrounded by land."
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87,31 zł |
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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
ISBN: 9781400078523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer's sang-froid, a historian's erudition, and a sense of irony so keen you could cut a finger on it, Gimlette celebrates the beauty, horror and-yes-charm of South America's obscure and remote "island surrounded by land." He takes readers from genteel drawing rooms in Asuncion-where ladies still gossip about the nineteenth-century Irish adventuress who became...
Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting ...
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86,73 zł |
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Panther Soup : A European Journey in War and Peace
ISBN: 9780099502388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A chance encounter with an American World War II veteran leads John Gimlette, the award-winning travel writer, on an astonishing journey through France, Germany and Austria.
A chance encounter with an American World War II veteran leads John Gimlette, the award-winning travel writer, on an astonishing journey through Franc...
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92,77 zł |
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Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
ISBN: 9780307473622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an interior of watery, green anarchy where border disputes are often based on ancient Elizabethan maps, where flora and fauna are still being discovered, where thousands of rivers remain mostly...
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so...
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104,08 zł |
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