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A Heck of a Life
ISBN: 9780967217673 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life story of Lars Henrik Ottoson is a marvel of adventures and unlikely shifts in occupation, location and fortunes. A life formed by a childhood that created such life-long friends as Gosta Pryzelius, Joel Haskel, JOLO, Ake Hjorth, Ingemar Bergman or Ingemar Essen; by early work as a reporter alongside such dominant figures as Pekka Langer, BANG or Stig Gits Olsson... covering the Nuremberg trials after WWII for BBC, reporting the 1959 win of Swedish Heavy Weight Champ Ingemar Johansson... authoring books and filming with Sven Nykvist in Africa and going from Cape-to-Cape in a VW bus......
The life story of Lars Henrik Ottoson is a marvel of adventures and unlikely shifts in occupation, location and fortunes. A life formed by a childhood...
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76,81 zł |
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Ett LIV Utan Like
ISBN: 9780967217635 / Szwedzki / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life story of journalist, world traveler, presidential friend and adventurer Lars Henrik Ottoson in Swedish language. Folj med Lars-Henrik Ottoson pa en otrolig resa. Mot hovdingar och presidenter, varldskandisar och storheter bland hyddor och palats, i maktkorridorer och urskogar i Ett Liv utan Like
The life story of journalist, world traveler, presidential friend and adventurer Lars Henrik Ottoson in Swedish language. Folj med Lars-Henrik Ottoson...
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72,27 zł |
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Robert E. Peary at the North Pole: A Report to the National Geographic Society by The Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation
ISBN: 9780914025207 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains the definitive analysis of the navigation and achievement of the discovery of the North Pole by Robert Peary and Matthew Hensen in April of 1909. The report is the work of members of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation. It was commissioned by the National Geographic Society in 1989 to resolve the controversies surrounding this achievement once and for all. "I consider this the end of a historic controversy and the confirmation of due justice to a great explorer." - Gilbert M. Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society
This book contains the definitive analysis of the navigation and achievement of the discovery of the North Pole by Robert Peary and Matthew Hensen in ...
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96,42 zł |
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Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King
ISBN: 9780307275424 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality.
Inventor of the aqualung and fearless scuba diver, Jacques Cousteau opened up the ocean to a mass audience for the first time. Here, with the cooperation of many of the subjects closest confidants and family, Brad Matsen makes clear the full picture of his remarkable life, showing the father, military man, inventor, entrepreneur, and adventurer behind the public face. Vividly conveying the people, the... An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind t...
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81,99 zł |
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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
ISBN: 9781849021050 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Scott's Discovery Expedition, 1901-04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 8823'S, 97 geographical miles (114 statute miles,...
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experi...
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126,21 zł |
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Holding Fast: The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy
ISBN: 9781595553430 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt. Hood. In December 2006, millions of people across the world prayed and waited in anguish to learn the fate of 3 climbers trapped on Mt. Hood. The worst storm in the last decade was pounding the mountain with hurricane-force winds that would not permit the army of rescue workers to do their work. No one below could forget the last phone call Kelly James placed to his wife, telling her that he was trapped in a snow cave just below the summit. What happened next would change the lives of everyone... A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt. Hood. In December 2006, millions of people across the ... |
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81,95 zł |
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Colombina: Buscando La Felicidad (Searching for Happiness) (Spanish First Edition)
ISBN: 9781419697463 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. COLOMBINA es la vida de una joven luchando en su pais en epocas dolorosas. Esta novela, esta llena de imagenes, olores, colores y sabores. COLOMBINA relata su historia en lenguaje simple y sabio, narrando las bellezas de su region. COLOMBINA nos resucita al pasado de Colombia, guiandonos por un mundo de supervivencia, describiendolo con dolor y encanto. Nos recuerda infamias como la expropiacion de propiedades a inocentes y masacres en guerras turbias. El cultivo y trafico ilicito de drogas, maniobras electorales, raptos a gente digna de vivir en paz. Ademas, Nohemi, nos deja saborear en cada...
COLOMBINA es la vida de una joven luchando en su pais en epocas dolorosas. Esta novela, esta llena de imagenes, olores, colores y sabores. COLOMBINA r...
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76,81 zł |
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Hans: Hope Amid Nazi Shadows
ISBN: 9781432754624 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young boy struggles to survive the hardships thrust upon him as a prisoner of circumstance under the shadow of the Swastika.
For Hans, the childhood dream of riding the rails is transformed into a life or death game of survival. As seemingly insurmountable challenges assail him, young Hans clings to a thread of hope in order to overcome the fallout of Hitler's war machine. The glow of hope glimmers in Hans' heart, even during his darkest hours of despair. Ultimately, the beacon of Lady Liberty's torch is reflected in his grateful tears as he sails into New York harbor to embrace his new... A young boy struggles to survive the hardships thrust upon him as a prisoner of circumstance under the shadow of the Swastika.
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60,20 zł |
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Cuando Florezcan Los Eucaliptos: La Persistencia De La Memoria A Través Del Tiempo
ISBN: 9780615230412 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En medio del volumen de obras de la ya variadisima y excelente produccion literaria de autores colombianos, nos encontramos con una obra que sobresale por varias razones. Rafael Tobar describe con realismo y sencillez, su ninez y adolescencia, en relatos llenos de anecdotas y comentarios, luego sus aventuras en la Cordillera Occidental de los Andes, por la costa del Pacifico caucano y por la Cordillera Central, con las campanas de cedulacion de La Registraduria Nacional del Estado Civil en los anos sesentas. Describe sus tiempos de bohemia, la magia de sus aventuras a traves de la geografia...
En medio del volumen de obras de la ya variadisima y excelente produccion literaria de autores colombianos, nos encontramos con una obra que sobresale...
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113,05 zł |
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A Dream of Canada: An Incredible Story of Struggle and Overcoming
ISBN: 9780986554001 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this incredible and compelling memoir, a child born into abject poverty in an African village dreams of coming to Canada, where he believes his destiny awaits him. The first of many daunting odds Kaanayo Nwachukwu has to outrun to realize this dream is to survive-unlike two less-fortunate older brothers-until his first birthday. Lavish and unstinting in his love and respect for his parents, Nwachukwu nonetheless determines at a very early age that, if he is going to break the crippling grip of poverty on his family, he must not repeat the limiting mistakes of his illiterate father....
In this incredible and compelling memoir, a child born into abject poverty in an African village dreams of coming to Canada, where he believes his des...
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76,85 zł |
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Mendocino Chapter
ISBN: 9781442107083 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty years ago I departed St Louis on a company trip to San Francisco with a stop at Denver, where she boarded and chose to sit next to me. We struck up a conversation that could have lasted a lifetime. Before we deplaned she gave me her address and phone number, asking me to call her after I had finished my business at the Shell Oil lab. I called the next day at 5 PM. She invited me to her apartment to discuss a place to dine. We visited a club in Jack London Square, Oakland, CA. We dined and danced all evening. When I returned to St Louis I wrote her a letter telling her I had enjoyed...
Forty years ago I departed St Louis on a company trip to San Francisco with a stop at Denver, where she boarded and chose to sit next to me. We struck...
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72,19 zł |
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My Miracle Life
ISBN: 9781450572668 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,72 zł |
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Arctic Naturalist: The Life of J. Dewey Soper
ISBN: 9781554887460 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue goose in the southwest corner of Baffin Island. He also charted the final unknown region of Baffin Island s coastline. Later in life he worked in the western Arctic. Outside the Far North, Soper studied bison in Wood Buffalo National Park, documented bird life on the Prairies, and made a detailed study of small mammals in Alberta. Soper was the last... Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which ... |
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129,42 zł |
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A Charge to Keep - I Have: A Promise Kept
ISBN: 9781432751159 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Charge to Keep - I Have
A Colored, Negro, Black man's remarkable works of growing up in and out of the deep south and the discrimination he experienced from whites and others within his own race. He works through the perils of racism by joining the military to escape the cotton mills of his hometown and using the military as a spring board to gain the college education denied him upon graduation from high school. He moves through the military and afterwards searching for ways to keep the promise made to his dying illiterate father, to erase the X his father used in signing his name.... A Charge to Keep - I Have
A Colored, Negro, Black man's remarkable works of growing up in and out of the deep south and the discrimination he expe... |
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96,42 zł |
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Shackleton: Leadership Lessons from Antarctica
ISBN: 9781450215381 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,86 zł |
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Flight to Ouagadougou: And Other Places I Never Imagined
ISBN: 9781452816258 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a series of short stories about an aviation drifter traveling around the world and the troubles he got into as well as the wonderful experiences that he had. Sometimes funny and sometimes sad this book will appeal to those who love airplanes or who love travel to exotic places.
This is a series of short stories about an aviation drifter traveling around the world and the troubles he got into as well as the wonderful experienc...
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95,16 zł |
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Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson & the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
ISBN: 9780062026651 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestseller from James Raffan, Emperor of the North tells the story of Sir George Simpson, whose extraordinary life coincided with the success of one of the greatest commercial empires in history: the Hudson's Bay Company, a vast trading venture that became the world's oldest continuous commercial enterprise.
The bestseller from James Raffan, Emperor of the North tells the story of Sir George Simpson, whose extraordinary life coincided with the suc...
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81,95 zł |
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Travels of Dursmirg
ISBN: 9781451512953 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who hasn't daydreamed about chucking it all and sailing away on a boat to warmer climes, "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." John and Jane did just that. This true sailing adventure is told in the first person. It began as an idea and unfolded into a rich and fulfilling dream come true. A lifelong obsession of escape materialized in 1972 with the building and launching of their dreamboat Dursmirg. John and Jane went over the horizon and out to sea on a voyage of escape. Departing Duluth-Superior on the western terminus of the St. Lawrence, they crossed the Great Lakes, the Erie...
Who hasn't daydreamed about chucking it all and sailing away on a boat to warmer climes, "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." John and Jane ...
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46,40 zł |
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Travels of Dursmirg: Summers at Daufuskie
ISBN: 9781451545913 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travels of Dursmirg: Summers at Daufuskie: This was not a fling. Jane and John got out of life's busy trap. Gone fishin' instead of just a wishin' became a reality. Cruise with John and Jane aboard their 46-foot sailboat to the Sea Islands of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Meet the people of Daufuskie Island, a place where there are more ox carts than automobiles. Discover the riches and history of the Golden Isles of Georgia: Amelia Island, Cumberland Island, Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island, Sapelo Island, St. Catherines Island, and the coastal cities that are part of these special...
Travels of Dursmirg: Summers at Daufuskie: This was not a fling. Jane and John got out of life's busy trap. Gone fishin' instead of just a wishin' bec...
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46,40 zł |
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Untamed Spirit: Around the World on a Motorcycle
ISBN: 9781450228510 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,46 zł |
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