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The Feast of the Wolf
ISBN: 9781939140050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ' A] tale of psychic terror . . . arresting . . . a poetical exploration of dark mind-scapes.' - Times Literary Supplement
' A] very well done novel. . . . Very highly recommended.' - The Ladder 'A delightful surprise for fans of the macabre. Simon Armstrong descends into a world of vampirism, lycanthropy, and more . . . Or, is it a more prosaic though no less terrifying descent into madness?' - John Pelan, editor of The Century's Best Horror Fiction Simon and Laura Armstrong's marriage is on the rocks. His drinking and abuse of prescription drugs are... ' A] tale of psychic terror . . . arresting . . . a poetical exploration of dark mind-scapes.' - Times Literary Supplement
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104,27 zł |
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My Animals and Other Family
ISBN: 9780224082341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book recalls the animals in the authors' life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father.
Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book reca...
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70,93 zł |
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Old Man Goya
ISBN: 9780375705793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact with the world and to create, spending the next thirty-five years in a world emptied of sound but bursting with images of pageantry, cruelty, and pathos. In this brilliant, idiosyncratic book - a kaleidoscope of biography, memoir, history, and meditation - Julia Blackburn vividly imagines the artist's world during this time. She recreates the artist's friendships and love affairs and breathes life into the subjects of his paintings: an...
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact w...
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82,79 zł |
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Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam
ISBN: 9781787332171 / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 zł |
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Charles Waterton 1782-1865 : Traveller and Conservationist
ISBN: 9780099736004 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. Using his surviving papers, Julia Blackburn has redressed the balance in a biogr aphy that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age.
Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation....
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87,31 zł |
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The Three of Us: A Family Story
ISBN: 9780099507048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This memoir is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Theirs was a difficult relationship: Thomas was an alcoholic, and Julia and Rosalie were more like sisters, later becoming sexual rivals. Ultimately, the book is a tale of redemption, a love story.
This memoir is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Theirs was a difficult relationship: Thomas was a...
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87,31 zł |
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The Book Of Colour : A Family Memoir
ISBN: 9780099440734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and then to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition and recurrent mental illness. This first novel is an expurgation of personal feelings, drawing the reader into a landscape like that of a Dali painting.
Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and then to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, ...
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70,93 zł |
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Daisy Bates in der Wüste
ISBN: 9783293209022 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In langem schwarzem Rock, Bluse, Krawatte und Hut sitzt Daisy Bates auf einem Stuhl in der Wüste. Sie sieht finster aus, Furcht einflößend, stolz, traurig, ernst, sehr schön und in jeder Hinsicht so gefährlich, wie eine Frau ihres Schlags nur sein konnte. Dreißig Jahre verbringt sie bei den Aborigines in der Wüste, schließt Freundschaft mit ihnen, taucht in ihre Traditionen ein. »Kabbarli« nennen sie sie, die Großmutter. Julia Blackburn sucht in Tagebüchern, Briefen und vergilbten Fotografien nach dem wahren Leben der Daisy Bates. Die Spuren erzählen von der roten... In langem schwarzem Rock, Bluse, Krawatte und Hut sitzt Daisy Bates auf einem Stuhl in der Wüste. Sie sieht finster aus, Furcht einflößend, stol... |
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63,13 zł |
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The Emperor's Last Island : A Journey to St Helena
ISBN: 9780099752110 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A study of the tiny tropical island of St Helena and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte who lived there in exile for the final six years of his life. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him, who guarded him, who managed only to catch a brief glimpse of him, alive or dead.
A study of the tiny tropical island of St Helena and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte who lived there in exile for the final six years of his life. It...
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87,31 zł |
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The Book of Color
ISBN: 9780679758372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world? "A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory."--Boston Globe.
In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. In...
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65,36 zł |
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Time Song: Searching for Doggerland
ISBN: 9781784704902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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76,32 zł |
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Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske
ISBN: 9780099582199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. In 1923 he started making paintings of the sea, boats and the coastline seen from the sea, and later, when he was too ill to stand and paint, he turned to embroidery, which he could do lying in bed. This book tells his story.
John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. In 1923 he started making pa...
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152,73 zł |
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Daisy Bates in the Desert
ISBN: 9780099752219 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This blend of documentary and fiction describes the author's search for Daisy Bates, an eccentric woman who lived alone in the deserts of South Australia in the early years of the century and whose accounts of her time there make no distinction between fact and fantasy.
This blend of documentary and fiction describes the author's search for Daisy Bates, an eccentric woman who lived alone in the deserts of South Austra...
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87,31 zł |
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Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam
ISBN: 9781787332188 / Inna / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
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Old Man Goya
ISBN: 9780099437253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An intimate account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through a time of political turmoil, war, violence and confusion, Goya continued to work, transforming the scenes he witnessed into his visionary paintings, drawings and etchings. Also detailed are Goya's lovers - the Duchess of Alba and Leocadia who was with him at the end. This is ultimately a tale of the ferocious energy, passion and genius of this great artist.
An intimate account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through a ...
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55,97 zł |
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The Leper's Companions
ISBN: 9780679758389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic. The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming pain. The seamless narrative lands her in a medieval seaside village where mermaids wash ashore, devils haunt in packs, a child is born with the head of a fish, and where one day, quite out of nowhere, there emerges a sage and wandering leper. The leper leads a small...
In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part ...
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73,86 zł |
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With Billie
ISBN: 9780099483656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never came out, but her recordings survived to provide the raw material for this extraordinary account of the life of America's First Lady of Jazz.
During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died ...
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87,31 zł |
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The Framework of Human Behaviour
ISBN: 9780415177825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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1089,27 zł |
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Goyas Geister : Roman
ISBN: 9783293208520 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Goya hatte einen Ort betreten, an dem es kein Vogelgezwitscher gab, keine Musik, keine näherkommenden Schritte und keine bellenden Hunde in der Ferne - die Taubheit sperrte ihn in einen Käfig."
Der Hofmaler des spanischen Königs ist lange fort gewesen. Er hat Angst vor den ersten Worten seiner Frau, denn er wird sie nicht hören können. Eine Krankheit hat ihn vollständig taub gemacht. Im Alter von siebenundvierzig Jahren verlor Francisco José de Goya das Gehör - Julia Blackburn erzählt die stumme Lebenswelt des großen spanischen Malers. "Goya hatte einen Ort betreten, an dem es kein Vogelgezwitscher gab, keine Musik, keine näherkommenden Schritte und keine bellenden Hunde in der Fern...
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63,13 zł |
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Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village
ISBN: 9780099549420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people of the village and they began to tell her their stories.
The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brough...
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60,01 zł |
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