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ISBN: 9788381914499 / Polski / broszurowa / 2022 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Zapraszamy w kolejną podróż z Paulem Theroux. Tym razem światowej sławy pisarz i podróżnik postanowił przejechać cały kontynent afrykański: od Kairu do Kapsztadu droga wiedzie wzdłuż Nilu, przez Sudan i Etiopię, Kenię i Ugandę, Tanzanię, Mozambik i Zimbabwe aż do samego krańca Afryki Południowej. Theroux podróżuje oczywiście pociągiem, ale nie tylko rzeki przepływa dłubanką, pyliste drogi pokonuje rozklekotanym autobusem i ciężarówką transportującą bydło. To z nich otwierają się dla niego widoki na jeden z najpiękniejszych, a zarazem najbardziej...
Zapraszamy w kolejną podróż z Paulem Theroux. Tym razem światowej sławy pisarz i podróżnik postanowił przejechać cały kontynent afrykański:...
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The Mosquito Coast
ISBN: 9780241973653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes ...
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The Vanishing Point: Stories
ISBN: 9780358722250 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Under the Wave at Waimea
ISBN: 9780241504468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Mother Land
ISBN: 9781328915825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch
To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others. The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mother has... A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch
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The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas
ISBN: 9780140249798 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating and shivering by turns as the temperature and altitude shoot up and down, thrown in with the appalling Mr. Thornberry in Limon and reading nightly to the blind writer, Borges, in Buenos Aires, Theroux vividly evokes the contrasts of a journey to the end of the line.
Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his vo...
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The Collected Stories: World's End; Sinning with Annie; Jungle Bells; the Consul's File; the London Embassy;
ISBN: 9780241950524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his collected short stories we find the essence of Paul Theroux's experience, spanning 25 years of writing. His characters live all over the world, each seeking happiness or escape, often finding themselves in alien situations.
In his collected short stories we find the essence of Paul Theroux's experience, spanning 25 years of writing. His characters live all over the world,...
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Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents
ISBN: 9780618001996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In an intriguing memoir of friendship, the best-selling novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V. S. Naipaul. Reprint.
In an intriguing memoir of friendship, the best-selling novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar recounts his experiences and m...
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Burma Sahib
ISBN: 9783630877969 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die faszinierende Lebensgeschichte des jungen George Orwell: Die Verwandlung des Eton-Absolventen und Kolonialpolizisten im Burma der 1920er Jahre in den schärfsten Kritiker unserer Zeit. Erzählt von Paul Theroux, Wegbegleiter von Bruce Chatwin und einer der großen Chronisten der Gegenwart. »Ein phänomenales Porträt des jungen George Orwell und eine schonungslose Darstellung des britischen Kolonialismus.« Publishers Weekly
»Es gibt einen kurzen Zeitraum im Leben eines jeden Menschen, in dem sein Charakter für immer festgeschrieben wird.« George Orwell Im Alter... Die faszinierende Lebensgeschichte des jungen George Orwell: Die Verwandlung des Eton-Absolventen und Kolonialpolizisten im Burma der 1920er Jahre ...
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A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta
ISBN: 9780547394497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a patch of carpet, and a package containing a human hand?
He is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs. Unger--and revived by her tantric massages--but the circumstances surrounding the dead boy cause him increasingly to doubt the... When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Un...
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The Consul's File
ISBN: 9780241950579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, Indians, Japanese, Chinese and the clubbable expat Brits.
Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the ...
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The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780618485338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys, Theroux fills his latest novel with his typically effortless but devastating descriptions of people and places, presenting a brilliant portrayal of aging and decay, a shocking tale of sensuality in a golden age.
Writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys, Theroux fills his latest novel with his typically effortless but devastating descr...
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Stary Ekspres Patagoński. Pociągiem przez Ameryki
ISBN: 9788381917377 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. „Stary Ekspres Patagoński” opowiada o kolejnej wielkiej wyprawie kolejowej amerykańskiego mistrza podróżopisarstwa — tym razem przez obie Ameryki. Poczynając od metra w Bostonie, Paul Theroux opisuje drogę ze skutego lodem stanu Massachusetts do jałowego płaskowyżu na najdalej na południe wysuniętym krańcu Argentyny. Trasa wiedzie przez malownicze miasta Ameryki Środkowej i starożytne miasto Inków Machu Picchu. Na przemian pocąc się w upale i drżąc z zimna, Theroux opisuje napotykanych ludzi. W Limón los styka go z nudziarzem, panem Thornberrym,...
„Stary Ekspres Patagoński” opowiada o kolejnej wielkiej wyprawie kolejowej amerykańskiego mistrza podróżopisarstwa — tym razem przez obie ...
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Moskito-Küste : Roman
ISBN: 9783455006735 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Lower River
ISBN: 9780544002258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. - Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.---Entertainment Weekly
When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he'd been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty... - Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neith...
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The Bad Angel Brothers
ISBN: 9780063374447 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Bad Angel Brothers
ISBN: 9780358716891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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The Mosquito Coast
ISBN: 9780140060898 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes ...
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Mr Bones : Twenty Stories
ISBN: 9780241969373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns on him. In this new collection of short stories, Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. He shows us...
Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. A family watches, horr...
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Blinding Light
ISBN: 9780618711963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Slade Steadman has written one of the most famous travel books ever, but he has been unable to write anything else for 30 years. A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador among the Secoya Indians gives Steadman the experience he has been seeking - and a miracle drug.
Slade Steadman has written one of the most famous travel books ever, but he has been unable to write anything else for 30 years. A journey downriver i...
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