wyszukanych pozycji: 27
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
ISBN: 9780743400695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered -- Captain James Cook.
This is the true story of a legendary man and explorer. Noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard, using James Cook's personal journals, strips away the myths surrounding Cook's life and portrays his tremendous ambition, intellect, and sheer hardheadedness to rise through the ranks of the Royal Navy -- and by his courageous exploits become one... In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, ex...
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77,83 zł |
Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN: 9780803228122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same uniform and fought together.In The Training Ground, acclaimed historian Martin Dugard presents the saga of how, two decades before the Civil War, a group of West Point graduates including Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and William Tecumseh Sherman fought together as brothers. Drawing on a range of primary sources and original research, Dugard paints a...
For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet ...
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104,29 zł |
The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery
ISBN: 9780316154567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself. The tall, freckled explorer with the aquiline nose, whose flaming red hair long ago turned gray, passes his days in prayer and rumination,...
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his...
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95,13 zł |
Za svobodnou Paříž
ISBN: 9788076890541 / Czeski / 2023 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Květen, 1940. Hitlerova vojska vtrhla do Francie a svět byl ohromen drzou, zničující bleskovou válkou, jež vyvrcholila dobytím Paříže. Napadená země se během několika týdnů zhroutila a její metropole, ono město světel zaslíbené intelektuálům a umělcům, ctěné pro svou atmosféru bezstarostnosti a svobodomyslnosti, se ocitlo pod nacistickou nadvládou. Okupanti rozpoutali teror, proti němuž se začal formovat vlastenecký odpor. Nacistům padlo za oběť více než sto dvacet tisíc Pařížanů, bezpočet dalších prošel věznicemi Gestapa a skončil...
Květen, 1940. Hitlerova vojska vtrhla do Francie a svět byl ohromen drzou, zničující bleskovou válkou, jež vyvrcholila dobytím Paříže. Napa...
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96,35 zł |
Chasing Lance: The 2005 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Ride of a Lifetime
ISBN: 9780316166232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In July 2005, over twenty million spectators flocked to France to see if anyone could beat Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France. Among them were hundreds of thousands of Americans - men of a certain age and financial status, mostly - who see the Tour as the ultimate buddy getaway, a jaunt replete with fine wines, delicious meals and lazy mornings under the Provencal sun. There were also huge clumps of Germans, Spaniards, Italians, Dutch - basically every country in Europe, a mini-UN that packed the fields and small towns along the way, showing how one can be drunk in 13 different languages....
In July 2005, over twenty million spectators flocked to France to see if anyone could beat Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France. Among them were hund...
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190,77 zł |
Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
ISBN: 9781250322111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,52 zł |
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
ISBN: 9781250283320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behaviour soon spread to other young women. Rumours of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches - but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were...
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, ...
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138,43 zł |
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America - audiobook
ISBN: 9781250773654 / Angielski / Compact Disc / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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205,50 zł |
The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
ISBN: 9781451677584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Learn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and "a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history's most famous explorers... with] infusions of insight and enthusiasm" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Frances Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel a geographical unknown: the location of the Nile River's source. They traveled deep into an uncharted African wilderness together, arrived at two different solutions to the mystery, and parted ways as sworn enemies. The...
Learn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and "a fascinating examination of the seven key traits o...
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82,15 zł |
Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
ISBN: 9780593183090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,19 zł |
Killing Kennedy : The End of Camelot
ISBN: 9781447236795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sequel to the million-selling Killing Lincoln: a thrilling new history of the assassination of JFK
The sequel to the million-selling Killing Lincoln: a thrilling new history of the assassination of JFK
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93,30 zł |
Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization
ISBN: 9780593473214 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,43 zł |
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures Of Stanley And Livingstone
ISBN: 9780553814477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Into Africa' traces the journeys of Livingstone and Stanley - Livingstone's search for the Nile's source, leaving him alone, far from civilization; and Stanley's search for Livingstone, which sees his awakening to the beauty of Africa. This book is a fascinating window on the golden age of exploration.
'Into Africa' traces the journeys of Livingstone and Stanley - Livingstone's search for the Nile's source, leaving him alone, far from civilization; a...
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71,34 zł |
Zabić Pattona
ISBN: 9788381889711 / Polski / twarda / 2023 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Niezwykła śmierć najzuchwalszego generała drugiej wojny światowej!Wielotygodniowy numer 1 na liście bestsellerów New York Timesa! 1,5 miliona egzemplarzy sprzedanych w USA!Kto stał za śmiercią generała Pattona w grudniu 1945 roku? George S. Patton junior, agresywny, zdeterminowany, jeden z najbardziej kontrowersyjnych dowódców II wojny światowej. Wieczny wojownik, błyskotliwy strateg, bezwzględnie szczery, często obcesowy. Stał się niewygodny dla polityków, gdy 8 maja 1945 roku, w dniu zakończenia wojny w Europie, zaszokował słuchaczy na konferencji prasowej,...
Niezwykła śmierć najzuchwalszego generała drugiej wojny światowej!Wielotygodniowy numer 1 na liście bestsellerów New York Timesa! 1,5 miliona e...
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65,55 zł |
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden - audiobook
ISBN: 9781250350640 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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194,63 zł |
The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller
ISBN: 9780316034043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Patterson and Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, files, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result is an exhilarating true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal.
Patterson and Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, files, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account ...
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168,71 zł |
The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller
ISBN: 9780316043656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall.
But what if his fate was actually much more sinister? Now, in THE MURDER OF TUT, James Patterson and Martin Dugard chronicle their epic quest to find out what happened to the boy-king. They comb through the evidence--X-rays, Carter's files, forensic clues--and scavenge for overlooked data to piece together the details of his life and death. The result is a true crime tale of intrigue, betrayal, and... Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps ...
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173,04 zł |
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
ISBN: 9781420516814 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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218,58 zł |
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
ISBN: 9781432890919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 479 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,15 zł |
Killing Jesus: A History
ISBN: 9781250142207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God.... Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln<... |
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102,77 zł |