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The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire
ISBN: 9781586482817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell 's agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin - is...
J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journa...
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165,62 zł |
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Risse in der Erde
ISBN: 9783751820004 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 734 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Das Wasser ist der große Protagonist in Mark Arax' epischem Werk, das die Geschichte von der Erschaffung und Erfindung eines Sehnsuchtsortes erzählt, dem tausend Kilometer langen Randstück des nordamerikanischen Kontinents, Kalifornien, das immer schon, gleich ob im Goldrausch oder im Agrarrausch, auf Gedeih und Verderb den wilden Ausschlägen von Dürre und Flut ausgeliefert war. Daneben treten unzählige Personen auf - historische und lebende, namhafte und namenlose -, die jeder und jede ihre eigene Rolle in der Geschichte des Wassers in Kalifornien spielen: Politiker und Großfarmer der...
Das Wasser ist der große Protagonist in Mark Arax' epischem Werk, das die Geschichte von der Erschaffung und Erfindung eines Sehnsuchtsortes erzählt...
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171,57 zł |
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West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
ISBN: 9781586489830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West, and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the cliches. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it. Compelling, lyrical, and ominous, his new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape. The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman has been praised as a stunningly intimate portrait of one immigrant family from Oaxaca,... Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West, and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years... |
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96,29 zł |
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The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
ISBN: 9781101910191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,57 zł |
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In My Father's Name
ISBN: 9780671010027 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two decades after his father's unsolved murder, Mark Arax uprooted his family and returned to Fresno under an assumed name, determined to put the past to rest. This "vivid memorial to the incidental victims of homicide" (Rosellen Brown, "New York Times Book Review") presents a "compelling record of how circumstances shape us, the way a single event can redirect our lives" (David Ulin, "Newsday"). Photos.
Two decades after his father's unsolved murder, Mark Arax uprooted his family and returned to Fresno under an assumed name, determined to put the past...
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113,62 zł |
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True Stories : Die drei besten Reportagen der Welt 2019
ISBN: 9783033077119 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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54,18 zł |
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