wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Glass Storm: The 2005 Stoughton, Wisconsin Tornado
ISBN: 9781645380658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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73,38 zł |
A Rage To Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
ISBN: 9780349110165 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The 19th-century explorer Richard Burton was a blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in 29 languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western scrutiny. He followed service as an intelligence officer in India with a daring penetration of the sacred Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina disguised as a pilgrim. He was the first European to enter the forbidden African city of Harar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika in his search for the source of the Nile. His fascination with, and research into,...
The 19th-century explorer Richard Burton was a blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in 29 languages, he found it easy to pass himsel...
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103,44 zł |
Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
ISBN: 9780349115894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) * A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in England.
* A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in England.
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77,56 zł |
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
ISBN: 9780393324143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Mitfords had style and presence and were mercilessly gifted. Above all, they were funny--hilariously and mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhanded, and generous book, Mary Lovell captures the vitality and drama of a family that took the twentieth century by storm and became, in some respects, its victims.
The Mitfords had style and presence and were mercilessly gifted. Above all, they were funny--hilariously and mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhanded,...
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95,88 zł |
Straight On Till Morning: The Life Of Beryl Markham
ISBN: 9780349121758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The life story of Beryl Markham, pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer and unscrupulous seducer. This fully authorised biography paints a vivid portrait of a tempestuous and controversial character.
The life story of Beryl Markham, pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer and unscrupulous seducer. This fully authorised ...
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67,22 zł |
The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart
ISBN: 9780312587338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female aviator. Her sense of daring and determination, rare for women of her time, brought her insurmountable fame from the day she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. In this definitive biography, Mary S. Lovell delivers a brilliantly researched account on Earhart's life using the original documents, letters, the logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries, and personal interviews with members of Amelia's family, friends and...
When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous fema...
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131,00 zł |
A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby
ISBN: 9781857024692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludvig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was... The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen |
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77,56 zł |
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
ISBN: 9780349115054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains in Europe; Diana, an iconic beauty, who was already married when, at 22, she fell in love with Oswald Moseley, leader of the British fascists; Unity, who, romantically in love with Hitler, became a member of his inner circle before shooting herself in the temple when World War II was declared;...
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There ...
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77,56 zł |
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
ISBN: 9780393320398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 946 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and saw him staring after her, she decided that she would marry him. By their next meeting, Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one...
Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When s...
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196,56 zł |
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill
ISBN: 9780349119786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) *The story of one of the most famous of all British families - the Churchills
*The story of one of the most famous of all British families - the Churchills
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77,56 zł |
Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder
ISBN: 9780393330137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more capricious and bloody, only to be followed by the indomitable and ruthless Gloriana, Elizabeth I. It could not have been more hazardous a period for an ambitious woman; by the time Bess's first child was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the...
In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more cap...
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152,88 zł |
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings
ISBN: 9780349121765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Mary Lovell's biography examines a legend to reveal the pressures and influences that drove Amelia.
When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering avia...
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77,56 zł |
The Riviera Set
ISBN: 9780349139890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A portrait of high society in the twentieth century, told through the stories of the guests of Maxine Elliott and Prince Aly Khan at the Chateau de l'Horizon in Cannes.
A portrait of high society in the twentieth century, told through the stories of the guests of Maxine Elliott and Prince Aly Khan at the Chateau de l'...
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56,87 zł |
Frank Lovell's World War II Diaries: The European War Theater Years
ISBN: 9781937588663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Frank's diary begins on June 6, 1944 when he first learns of the invasion of Europe, D-Day, while stationed in England. He arrives in France on D-day +4. The diary ends with an entry on September 14, 1945, the day he arrives home in Massachusetts. As a chief warrant officer, we follow Lovell as he bears witness to some of the most monumental events of the 20th century. Well aware he was living during a period of major historical importance, Lovell believed it was his duty to record these events. The results are the reader is offered a unique perspective into an individual solder's view of his...
Frank's diary begins on June 6, 1944 when he first learns of the invasion of Europe, D-Day, while stationed in England. He arrives in France on D-day ...
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64,21 zł |
The One
ISBN: 9781080647125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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48,15 zł |