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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures Of Stanley And Livingstone
ISBN: 9780553814477 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Into Africa' traces the journeys of Livingstone and Stanley - Livingstone's search for the Nile's source, leaving him alone, far from civilization; and Stanley's search for Livingstone, which sees his awakening to the beauty of Africa. This book is a fascinating window on the golden age of exploration.
'Into Africa' traces the journeys of Livingstone and Stanley - Livingstone's search for the Nile's source, leaving him alone, far from civilization; a...
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Search for the Nile's Source : The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-century Welsh Explorer
ISBN: 9780708326732 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Hanning Speke s discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 while on a quest to find the source of the Nile elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. But historians have ignored the part played by the Welsh mining engineer John Petherick in the discovery, largely because Speke branded him a slave trader. In this first biography of Petherick, John Humphries explores whether Petherick was truly a rogue, as he is often portrayed, or the victim of a conspiracy that destroyed his reputation and denied him credit for one of the...
John Hanning Speke s discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 while on a quest to find the source of the Nile elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of Afri...
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David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story
ISBN: 9780745955681 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 200 years after his birth, this book assesses David Livingstone's life, impact and legacy.
200 years after his birth, this book assesses David Livingstone's life, impact and legacy.
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56,31 |
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The Lost Men: The Harrowing Story of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
ISBN: 9780747579724 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of vital food and fuel depots to supply the epic crossing. Yet all went tragically wrong.
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboar...
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75,44 |
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Shackleton of the Antarctic
ISBN: 9780803219441 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty-eight men stood on a desolate Antarctic ice floe one thousand miles from the nearest human contact. In a few months the ice would melt. To survive they would have to be safely on land before that happened-if they did not starve first. The odds were stacked against them. Facing all the horrors that the Antarctic could bring to bear, including numbing cold and the worst weather on the globe, they could freeze, starve, or drown. The single advantage they did have, however, proved decisive. They were led by Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922). This saga is their tale and that of the man who led...
Twenty-eight men stood on a desolate Antarctic ice floe one thousand miles from the nearest human contact. In a few months the ice would melt. To surv...
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53,50 |
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Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut
ISBN: 9781455522804 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernandez dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. REACHING FOR THE STARS is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut.
Hernandez didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often joined gangs, or skipped school. And yet, by his twenties he was part of an elite team helping develop technology for the early detection of breast cancer. He was turned down by NASA eleven times on his long journey to donning that famous... Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernandez dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a ro...
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110,23 |
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Once Upon a Gypsy Moon: An Improbable Voyage and One Man's Yearning for Redemption
ISBN: 9781455529339 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Hurley watched his world unravel in the wake of infidelity, divorce and failure. In August 2009, he was short of money, out of a job, and seeking to salvage a life that had foundered. Deeply in need of perspective, he took to the open seas in a 32-foot sailboat, Gypsy Moon. The story of his 2-year outward odyssey, deterred by rough weather and mechanical troubles, combines keen observation, poignant thoughts, and deeper introspection with glorious prose.
"Once Upon a Gypsy Moon" also presents a rare and much-needed point of view on the familiar spiritual-journey narrative. It... Michael Hurley watched his world unravel in the wake of infidelity, divorce and failure. In August 2009, he was short of money, out of a job, and seek...
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172,41 |
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The Man Who Quit Money
ISBN: 9781594485695 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival
Mark Sundeen's new book, The Unsettlers, is coming in January 2017 from Riverhead Books In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security-ever since. The Man Who Quit Money is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent. Suelo doesn't pay taxes, or accept food stamps or welfare. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands, forages wild... Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival
Mark Sundeen's new book, The Unsettlers, is coming in January 2017 from Riverhead Boo... |
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68,42 |
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Travelling the Incense Route: From Arabia to the Levant in the Footsteps of the Magi
ISBN: 9781845119959 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carrying frankincense and myrrh, spices from India, gold and exotic African animal skins, the Incense Route was the lifeblood of the countries through which it passed. Barbara Toy set out to travel the length of this long-forgotten route, which once rivaled the Silk Road, at a time of particular turbulence in the region and became the first western woman to have made the journey. Beginning in Bir Ali, Can'a of ancient times, she passed through war zones in Yemen, joined a band of pilgrims as far as Mecca, forged on to Jeddah and Medina, explored the breathtaking Nabataean city of Madain Saleh...
Carrying frankincense and myrrh, spices from India, gold and exotic African animal skins, the Incense Route was the lifeblood of the countries through...
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61,44 |
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Captain Cook : Voyager Between Two Worlds
ISBN: 9781847250025 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture. Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century.... |
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The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan
ISBN: 9781848853133 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freya Stark traveled the difficult and often dangerous journey from Kabul to Kandahar and Herat in search of one of Afghanistan's most celebrated treasures, the Minaret of Djam. This magnificent symbol of the powerful Ghorid Empire that once stretched from Iran to India lies in the heart of central Afghanistan's wild Ghor Province. Surrounded by over 6,000 foot high mountains and by the remains of what many believe to have been the lost city of Turquoise Mountain--one of the greatest cities of the Middle Ages--Djam is, even today, one of the most inaccessible and remote places in Afghanistan....
Freya Stark traveled the difficult and often dangerous journey from Kabul to Kandahar and Herat in search of one of Afghanistan's most celebrated trea...
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87,06 |
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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
ISBN: 9781849833905 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. In April 2003, whilst hiking in the Utah canyons, he was trapped by the hand for six days by an 800-pound boulder. Finally, he faced a terrible decision: he had cut off his hand or face death.
A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. In April 2003, whilst hiking in the Utah canyons, he was trapped by the hand for ...
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75,44 |
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Tom Crean: Ice Man
ISBN: 9781905172313 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tom Crean was no ordinary man. He saved comrades from drowning in frozen waters, and rescued others from freezing snow, whilst following his leaders - Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton, the famous Polar explorers. Written by Crean's biographer, this boy's story of courage, strength and determination is aimed at young readers.
Tom Crean was no ordinary man. He saved comrades from drowning in frozen waters, and rescued others from freezing snow, whilst following his leaders -...
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50,28 |
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The Missionaries
ISBN: 9781906011529 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.
Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist ...
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102,13 |
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Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9781906011826 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy into a worldly wise multilingual intelligence agent on the point of becoming a formidable travel writer.
Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy int...
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75,44 |
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The Terrible Loyalty
ISBN: 9781300705642 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the true story of two men, lifelong friends, who ventured into the heart of the endless ocean at its loneliest point in a 20-foot sailboat. Embarking on a trip across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii, they navigated by means of only a sextant and the stars. They had planned for an uneventful sail, but instead encountered a treacherous storm that threatened their lives, threw them dangerously off-course and sealed their fates irrevocably together as they battled to survive. Readers will come to know these extraordinary men and their amazing journey--not only on the sea, but...
Based on the true story of two men, lifelong friends, who ventured into the heart of the endless ocean at its loneliest point in a 20-foot sailboat. E...
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147,98 |
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Migrant Alaskan: Cajun to Sourdough
ISBN: 9781478703716 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lessons I learned on Granddaddy's porch. Many an hour I would spend in my Pirogue (Pero) with my dog, Stub, huntin nutria which I sold for 50 cents each. Granddaddy always said "You don't know how to spend money if you don't know how to earn it." I was born in 1950 in Hereford, Texas. My mom is from Louisiana and my dad is from Mississippi. We traveled from oil-field to oil-field in all the states west of the Mississippi River. My final oil-field was in Alaska and that is home and where I live today.
Lessons I learned on Granddaddy's porch. Many an hour I would spend in my Pirogue (Pero) with my dog, Stub, huntin nutria which I sold for 50 cents ea...
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93,44 |
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Two Years Before the Mast
ISBN: 9783954273553 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the following pages I design to give an accurate and authentic narrative of a little more than two years spent as a common sailor before the mast, in the American merchant service; and in it I have adhered closely to fact in every particular, and endeavoured to give each thing its true character. My design is, and it is this which has induced me to publish the book, to present the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is - the light and dark together. Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882), American politician, lawyer and expert for maritime law, gives a vivid account of his younger years as...
In the following pages I design to give an accurate and authentic narrative of a little more than two years spent as a common sailor before the mast, ...
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178,47 |
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Desde Al-Andalus Hasta Monte Sacro
ISBN: 9781490711713 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Durante el tiempo que paso en las islas portuguesas de Porto Santo y Madeira, Cristobal Colon, un navegante de Genova, estuvo a cargo de un marinero moribundo, de Castilla, cuya carabela habia sido llevado por la corriente del Golfo de Guinea a un mar remoto, posiblemente el Caribe. En su lecho de muerte, este hombre habia dicho Columbus el secreto de algunas tierras donde habian llegado siberianos durante el Pleistoceno y algunos documentos sobre algunos de los posibles viajes anteriores. Este marinero aseguro que esas tierras que habia logrado llevado por las corrientes eran los mismos que...
Durante el tiempo que paso en las islas portuguesas de Porto Santo y Madeira, Cristobal Colon, un navegante de Genova, estuvo a cargo de un marinero m...
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Desde Al-Andalus Hasta Monte Sacro
ISBN: 9781490711720 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Durante el tiempo que paso en las islas portuguesas de Porto Santo y Madeira, Cristobal Colon, un navegante de Genova, estuvo a cargo de un marinero moribundo, de Castilla, cuya carabela habia sido llevado por la corriente del Golfo de Guinea a un mar remoto, posiblemente el Caribe. En su lecho de muerte, este hombre habia dicho Columbus el secreto de algunas tierras donde habian llegado siberianos durante el Pleistoceno y algunos documentos sobre algunos de los posibles viajes anteriores. Este marinero aseguro que esas tierras que habia logrado llevado por las corrientes eran los mismos que...
Durante el tiempo que paso en las islas portuguesas de Porto Santo y Madeira, Cristobal Colon, un navegante de Genova, estuvo a cargo de un marinero m...
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118,32 |
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