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The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred Years
ISBN: 9780520269538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry that now extends to every state. While some namessuch as Mondavi and Gallowill be familiar, others are less well known. These include the wealthy Nicholas Longworth, who produced the first popular American wine; the German immigrant George Husmann, who championed the native Norton grape in...
Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an eng...
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169,88 zł |
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A History of Wine in America, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to Prohibition
ISBN: 9780520254299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground down to the very seashore, they concluded that "in all the world the like abundance is not to be found." Thus, from the very beginning the promise of America was, in part, the alluring promise of wine. How that promise was repeatedly baffled, how its realization was gradually begun, and how at last it...
The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New W...
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245,06 zł |
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The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: Volume 3: 1900-10
ISBN: 9780333637333 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. 'The letters bring the man marvellously alive...a perfect bedside book and an important contribution to Kipling scholarship.' - Ian McIntyre, Times Volume 3 of Kipling's Letters covers the decade 1900-10, the years in which Kipling published Kim, Just So Stories, The Five Nations, Traffics and Discoveries, Puck of Pook's Hill, Actions and Reactions, and Rewards and Fairies. The narrative of his life includes the years in South Africa during and after the Boer War, his move to Bateman's in Sussex, his increasing involvement in the politics of preparedness and the growing record of his honours,...
'The letters bring the man marvellously alive...a perfect bedside book and an important contribution to Kipling scholarship.' - Ian McIntyre, Times Vo...
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391,77 zł |
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The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: Volume 1: 1872-89
ISBN: 9780333360873 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Kipling's letters, never before collected and edited and largely unpublished, are now presented in an annotated edition based on the more than 6,000 letters preserved in public and private collections all over the world. Planned in an edition of four volumes, the Letters reveal Kipling with a fullness and immediacy of detail unmatched by any other source. The first two volumes present the first half of Kipling's life, down to the end of the nineteenth century. They show the remarkable transformation of the young schoolboy into the seasoned Indian journalist, and the even more remarkable...
Kipling's letters, never before collected and edited and largely unpublished, are now presented in an annotated edition based on the more than 6,000 l...
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391,77 zł |
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The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay: Volume 5, January 1849-December 1855
ISBN: 9780521089012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The years covered in this fifth volume of Macaulay's letters were a striking mixture of triumph and loss.
The years covered in this fifth volume of Macaulay's letters were a striking mixture of triumph and loss.
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500,76 zł |
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A History of Wine in America, Volume 2: From Prohibition to the Present
ISBN: 9780520254305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A History of Wine in America is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states after the repeal of Prohibition. Engagingly written, exhaustively researched, and rich in detail, this book describes how Prohibition devastated the wine industry, the conditions of renewal after Repeal, the various New Deal measures that affected wine, and the early markets and methods. Thomas Pinney goes on to examine the effects of World War II and how the troubled postwar years led to the...
A History of Wine in America is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and t...
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245,06 zł |
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The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay: Volume 6, January 1856-December 1859
ISBN: 9780521089029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The last four years of Macaulay's life, documented in this final volume of the Letters, began as an agreeable coda to the rest.
The last four years of Macaulay's life, documented in this final volume of the Letters, began as an agreeable coda to the rest.
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401,76 zł |
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Notes on a Cellar-Book
ISBN: 9780520253520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since its first publication in 1920, George Saintsbury's classic Notes on a Cellar-Book has remained one of the greatest tributes to drink and drinking in the literature of wine. A collection of tasting notes, menus, and robust opinions, the work is filled with anecdotes and recollections of wines and spirits consumed--from the heights of Romanee-Conti to the simple pleasures of beer, flip, and mum. Thomas Pinney brings this unique work alive for contemporary audiences by providing the keys to a full understanding of Notes on a Cellar-Book in a new edition that includes...
Since its first publication in 1920, George Saintsbury's classic Notes on a Cellar-Book has remained one of the greatest tributes to drink and ...
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210,27 zł |
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The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
ISBN: 9780521089036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A personal view of England, from the Napoleonic Wars to the high tide of mid-Victorian prosperity, is recorded in these letters of one of the Victorian era's greatest figures. Historian, essayist, poet, orator, statesman, Macaulay saw and recorded - and frequently had part in - some of the most important events of his time. The abolition of slavery and the slave trade, the passage of the Reform Bill, the reform of Indian government, and the struggle over the Corn Laws are among the public interests of Macaulay's letters. At the same time they present a lively picture of the style and...
A personal view of England, from the Napoleonic Wars to the high tide of mid-Victorian prosperity, is recorded in these letters of one of the Victoria...
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337,70 zł |
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Kipling's India: Uncollected Sketches 1884-88
ISBN: 9781349077120 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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195,87 zł |
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100 Poems: Old and New
ISBN: 9781108452847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A selection of the best poems of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), including many uncollected and previously unpublished poems.
A selection of the best poems of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), including many uncollected and previously unpublished poems.
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80,96 zł |
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