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Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 9780349145105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Travels in a Thin Country: Journey Through Chile
ISBN: 9780316909099 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's "Boys of My Youth," and Mary Karr's"The""Liar's Club," Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made wards of the Fresno County, California court and spent the next 14 years-in a series of adoptive homes. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of a captivating memoir. McLain's beautiful writing and limber voice capture the intense loneliness, sadness, and...
In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's "Boys of My Youth," and Mary Karr's"The""Liar's Club," Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir abou...
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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
ISBN: 9780375754548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Captain Scott and his men in February 1912, when they were expected to return victorious any day from the South Pole. He embarked on his own epic journey into the Antarctic winter to collect eggs of the Emperor penguin. It was dark all the time, his teeth shattered, and the tent blew away in the cold. "But we kept our tempers," he wrote, "even with God."
After serving in the First World War, with zealous encouragement from his neighbor George... Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Capta...
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Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
ISBN: 9780099450276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. This book reveals the truth behind the author's love affairs with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham, and - famously - with Karen Blixen, a romance immortalized in her memoir Out of Africa.
Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. This book reveals the ...
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Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia
ISBN: 9780099584131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020 With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides – Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others – Wheeler travels the length and breadth of Russia to make connections between then and now. On the Trans-Siberian railway, at sail on the Black Sea, or while watching television with her hosts in Soviet apartment blocks, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news – a Russia of... A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.
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Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
ISBN: 9780812968927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable "Out of Africa." Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.
Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. In 1910, searching for something new, he arrived in British East Africa and fell in love with a continent, with a landscape, with a... A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blix...
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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
ISBN: 9780099437536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Aspley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to 70 below, it was dark all the time, his teeth shattered with the cold and the tent blew away. But we kept our tempers, Cherry wrote, even with God.
Aspley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journ...
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Access All Areas
ISBN: 9781787330009 / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 9781408716731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2011
ISBN: 9780865478770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers |
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O My America! : Second Acts in a New World
ISBN: 9780099541349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves. Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope, mother of Anthony and author of the biting Domestic Manners of the Americans; the actress Fanny Kemble, who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand...
After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty...
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Magnetic North
ISBN: 9780374533090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming. Inspired by... A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a contine... |
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O My America!: Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World
ISBN: 9780374534783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In O My America , the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west. In O My America , the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures o... |
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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
ISBN: 9780375753657 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country tha...
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Chile: Travels In A Thin Country
ISBN: 9780349120010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction.
The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction.
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
ISBN: 9780375753381 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind. Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers....
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has capt...
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
ISBN: 9780099731818 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The author spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf, as well as another month with the British Antarctic Survey. This title presents a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the people who inhabit this region.
The author spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf, as well as another month with the British Antarctic Survey. Thi...
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The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic
ISBN: 9780099516880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler uncovers the beautiful, brutal reality of the Arctic. This book is a spicy confection of history, science and reflection.
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan...
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Jan Morris: A Life
ISBN: 9780571379453 / Angielski / Twarda / 09-04-2026 / 416 str. Książka dostępna od: 09-04-2026 |
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