wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle
ISBN: 9780195166491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "A colorful and lively account of this history-making scientific adventure."--Kirkus Reviews When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the Galapagos Islands, in a journey of discovery that lasted almost five years. Now, in Fossils, Finches and Fuegians, Richard Keynes, Darwin's great grandson, offers the first modern full-length account of Darwin's epoch-making expedition....
"A colorful and lively account of this history-making scientific adventure."--Kirkus Reviews When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagl...
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131,55 zł |
The Beagle Record: Selections from the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of HMS Beagle
ISBN: 9780521338554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This 1979 volume gathers together an account of the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world in 1831 6, taken from the letters of Darwin and Fitzroy, Darwin's diary, and the books about the voyage published by Darwin and FitzRoy in 1839. It is illustrated by the pencil drawings and watercolours made by the Beagle's official artist, Conrad Martens, but pictures made on board by other members of the crew are also included. The bulk of the illustrations were previously unpublished, as were the letters written by Captain FitzRoy and Conrad Martens. Most of the other written sources were out of print....
This 1979 volume gathers together an account of the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world in 1831 6, taken from the letters of Darwin and Fitzroy, Darw...
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269,59 zł |
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521464772 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form--multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This book is the first to describe the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. Following an introduction that explains the wider continental history in which the dissemination of the scriptures occurred, Richard Marsden analyzes nineteen surviving Latin manuscripts and further translations of scripture into Old English. His book illuminates important areas of monastic and intellectual life, and establishes textual history as a dimension of wider Anglo-Saxon...
The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form--multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This book is the first to describe the ...
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610,72 zł |
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature
ISBN: 9780521551830 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Richard North offers a complete revision of our view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discusses the pre-Christian gods of Bede's history of the Anglo-Saxon conversion with reference to a god known as Ingui. Using expert knowledge of comparative literary material from Old Norse-Icelandic and other Old Germanic languages, North reconstructs the slender Old English evidence in an imaginative and original treatment of poems such as "Deor" and "The Dream of the Rood."
Richard North offers a complete revision of our view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discu...
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566,50 zł |
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature
ISBN: 9780521030267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richard North offers a complete revision of our view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discusses the pre-Christian gods of Bede's history of the Anglo-Saxon conversion with reference to a god known as Ingui. Using expert knowledge of comparative literary material from Old Norse-Icelandic and other Old Germanic languages, North reconstructs the slender Old English evidence in an imaginative and original treatment of poems such as "Deor" and "The Dream of the Rood."
Richard North offers a complete revision of our view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discu...
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181,44 zł |
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521031257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. Examination of the complex patterns of variation may illuminate important aspects of monastic, ecclesiastical and intellectual history. This book is the first to tackle questions about the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England. Following an introduction which explains the wider continental context in which the dissemination of the Latin scriptures occurred, Richard Marsden goes on to analyse twenty surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts including the Codex...
The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. Examination of the complex patterns of...
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259,22 zł |
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
ISBN: 9780521003179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here is a fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made. This work constitutes an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelog that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy.
Here is a fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made. This work constitutes an accurate historical document as well as an evocati...
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286,35 zł |
Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle
ISBN: 9780521673501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fascinating insight into the intellectual development of one of the world's most influential scientists.
A fascinating insight into the intellectual development of one of the world's most influential scientists.
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643,29 zł |