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The Feast of the Wolf
ISBN: 9781939140050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) ' 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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The Book of Color
ISBN: 9780679758372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam
ISBN: 9781787332188 / Angielski / Inna / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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85,71 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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66,70 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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My Animals and Other Family
ISBN: 9780224082341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
ISBN: 9780679744467 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez.
In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent an...
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Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam
ISBN: 9781787332171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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100,88 |
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Daisy Bates in the Desert
ISBN: 9780099752219 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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The Three of Us: A Family Story
ISBN: 9780307278937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatious painter with no boundaries.After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in male lodgers with the hope they would become her lovers. When one of the lodgers began an affair with Julia, competitive Rosalie was devastated; he later committed suicide, shattering whatever relationship between mother and daughter remained. After thirty years, Rosalie, diagnosed with leukemia, came to live with Julia for the last...
This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and ...
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83,85 |
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With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
ISBN: 9780375705809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie best: piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who contrary to myth knew what she wanted and what really mattered to her. Julia Blackburn has pieced together an oral history of this jazz great, creating a unique and fascinating view of an astonishing woman."
Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie best: piano players ...
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83,85 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Charles Waterton 1782-1865 : Traveller and Conservationist
ISBN: 9780099736004 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Time Song: Searching for Doggerland
ISBN: 9781784704902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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75,62 |
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The Lost Dragonflies
ISBN: 9781068178245 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Old Man Goya
ISBN: 9780375705793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske
ISBN: 9780099582199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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The Framework of Human Behaviour
ISBN: 9780415177825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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With Billie
ISBN: 9780099483656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena
ISBN: 9780679739371 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An account of Napoleon's six years on the island of St. Helena describes the island's strange history and recounts the stories, myths, and absurdities.
An account of Napoleon's six years on the island of St. Helena describes the island's strange history and recounts the stories, myths, and absurdities...
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