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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
ISBN: 9780312428327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn't have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the wild era when Europeans first roamed the New World in quest of gold, glory, converts, and eternal youth. Horwitz tells the story of these brave and often crazed explorers while retracing their steps on his own epic trek--an odyssey that takes him inside an Indian sweat lodge in subarctic Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, on a... W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz... |
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108,94 zł |
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
ISBN: 9780312429263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 |
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100,22 zł |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
ISBN: 9781101980309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,44 zł |
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
ISBN: 9780679758334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. National Bestseller
For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War -- reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more -- this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. Splendid. Roy Blount, Jr., The New York Times Book Review When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him.... National Bestseller
For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War -- reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendant... |
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81,42 zł |
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One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
ISBN: 9780375706134 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune "A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The Telegraph (Sydney) Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback.
What follows is a hilarious,... "A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune "A fascinati...
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74,08 zł |
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Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
ISBN: 9780747564553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 reached every continent and ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Kamchatka to Java to Easter Island to the coast of Oregon. This work retraces the great voyages of Captain James Cook, the British farmboy who drew the map of the modern world.
Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 reached every continent and ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Kamchatka to ...
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92,77 zł |
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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
ISBN: 9780452267459 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review
NATIONAL BESTSELLER With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia to offer startling close-ups of a volatile region few Westerners understand. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the malarial sands of the Sudan to the eerie souks of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a land so secretive... "A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review
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104,58 zł |
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Cook : Die Entdeckung eines Entdeckers
ISBN: 9783492244732 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 703 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die Suche nach Terra australis trieb James Cook ber alle Ozeane. Als er 1768 England verlie, war ein Drittel der Erde noch unentdeckt. In nur elf Jahren erkundete er zu Schiff die Welt vom Beringmeer bis zur Antarktis, von Alaska bis Tasmanien. Als Cook 1779 auf Hawaii erschlagen wurde, hinterlie er der Nachwelt nichts Geringeres als ein neues Bild der Erde. Der Pulitzerpreistrger Tony Horwitz hat sich auf die Spur von Kpt n Cook begeben und dabei einen der grten Entdecker aller Zeiten neu entdeckt.
Die Suche nach Terra australis trieb James Cook ber alle Ozeane. Als er 1768 England verlie, war ein Drittel der Erde noch unentdeckt. In nur elf Jahr...
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72,41 zł |
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South Sea Tales
ISBN: 9780375759291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author's own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitz asserts in his Introduction, "When London's stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human...
Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author's own far-flung adv...
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108,94 zł |
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