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The Winemaker's Daughter
ISBN: 9781400034109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent Timothy Egan turns to fiction with The Winemaker's Daughter, a lyrical and gripping novel about the harsh realities and ecological challenges of turning water into wine.
When Brunella Cartolano visits her father on the family vineyard in the basin of the Cascade Mountains, she's shocked by the devastation caused by a four-year drought. Passionate about the Pacific Northwest ecology, Brunella, a cultural impact analyst, is embroiled in a battle to save the Seattle waterfront from redevelopment and to preserve a... Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent Timothy Egan turns to fiction with The Winemaker's Daughter, a lyrical and ...
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82,19 zł |
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
ISBN: 9780544102767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan's spirited biography might just bring Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life." -- Washington Post
Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways... "A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan's spirited biography might just bring Curtis] the recognition tha...
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82,15 zł |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
ISBN: 9780618773473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones in the darkest years of the Depression.
Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through b...
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82,15 zł |
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Brudne lata trzydzieste. Opowieści o wielkich...
ISBN: 9788381912907 / Polski / twarda / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Pierwsi przybysze na Wielkie Równiny zobaczyli morze traw ciągnące się po horyzont. Żadnych drzew, wzniesień terenu, przecinającej prerię rzeki. Hodowcy bydła zastali tu wymarzone pastwiska dla swoich stad. Rdzenni mieszkańcy musieli ustąpić miejsca kowbojom. Potem przybyli farmerzy i zaczęła się wielka orka. Miliony akrów ogołocono z traw, by wysiać pszenicę. Na początku XX wieku wydawało się, że ziemia rodzi złoto. Jednak hossa nie trwała wiecznie. Najpierw przyszedł Wielki Kryzys, a z nim bankructwa banków i gwałtowny spadek cen pszenicy. Później rozpętało...
Pierwsi przybysze na Wielkie Równiny zobaczyli morze traw ciągnące się po horyzont. Żadnych drzew, wzniesień terenu, przecinającej prerię rzek...
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46,90 zł |
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman who Stopped Them
ISBN: 9780735225282 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,87 zł |
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Down Tick
ISBN: 9780595184729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,34 zł |
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A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
ISBN: 9780735225251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,52 zł |
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The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780679734857 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured E...
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82,19 zł |
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
ISBN: 9780735225268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,78 zł |
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
ISBN: 9780547394602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from... In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he br... |
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82,15 zł |
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
ISBN: 9780544944831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An old-fashioned tale of tall talk, high ideals, and irresistible appeal . . . You will not read a historical thriller like this all year . . . Egan] is a master storyteller." --Boston Globe
"Egan has a gift for sweeping narrative . . . and he has a journalist's eye for the telltale detail . . . This is masterly work." -- New York Times Book Review In this exciting and illuminating work, National Book Award winner Timothy Egan delivers a story, both rollicking and haunting, of one of the most famous Irish Americans of all time. A dashing young... "An old-fashioned tale of tall talk, high ideals, and irresistible appeal . . . You will not read a historical thriller like this all year . . . E...
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99,46 zł |
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