wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Sweet Promised Land, 50th Ed.
ISBN: 9780874177060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dominique Laxalt was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert and nearby hills of the Sierra. Like all his fellow Basque immigrants, Dominique dreamed of someday returning to the land of his beginnings. Most Basques never made the journey back, but Dominique finally did return for a visit with family and friends. Sweet Promised Land is the story of that trip, told by his son Robert, who accompanied him to the pastoral mountain village in France. Dominique came home victorious, the adventurer who had conquered the unknown and found his...
Dominique Laxalt was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert and nearby hills of the Sierra...
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73,01 |
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A Lean Year and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781647791568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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83,44 |
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A Private War: An American Code Officer in the Belgian Congo
ISBN: 9780874173246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This memoir recalls Robert Laxalt's services in a remote jungle outpost, in the Belgian Congo. The Allies and the Germans were struggling to control a mine, it lay deep in the Congo and produced a little-known mineral called uranium. It is also shows Laxalt's personal battle with himself.
This memoir recalls Robert Laxalt's services in a remote jungle outpost, in the Belgian Congo. The Allies and the Germans were struggling to control a...
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57,35 |
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Nevada: A Bicentennial History
ISBN: 9780393334067 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.
Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocativ...
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77,87 |
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The Land of My Fathers: A Son's Return to the Basque Country
ISBN: 9781647791544 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
78,23 |
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A Cup of Tea in Pamplona: A Novella
ISBN: 9780874171921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this slim tale, Laxalt shows the ugly, desperate, and sometimes violent world of the contrabandiers, Basque smugglers in the Pyrenees. Set in the 1960s, the terse story begins with Nikolas, driven by his family s financial despair, taking on work from Gregorio, the patron of a small team of smugglers. Nikolas must smuggle fifty horses over the mountain ridges between France and Spain. If he s caught, jail and ruin are certain; death is possible. This engrossing novella, told with tight narration and compelling dialogue, shows the grinding poverty and ethnic tensions in Basque lands, fifty...
In this slim tale, Laxalt shows the ugly, desperate, and sometimes violent world of the contrabandiers, Basque smugglers in the Pyrenees. Set in the 1...
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73,01 |
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The City of Trembling Leaves
ISBN: 9780874171808 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 690 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is American in all its implications - big, full of beauty and of hope. It is the record of an American boy's torments and thrills, his slow maturing, his inhibitions, his aspirations. It is a story of adolescent love and of creative activity in America.
This book is American in all its implications - big, full of beauty and of hope. It is the record of an American boy's torments and thrills, his slow ...
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104,32 |