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I, Nemo
ISBN: 9780786752867 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if the Nautilus and its famous captain wasn t fiction?
Jonathan de Chevalier Mason has it all: A promising career designing warships for Her Majesty s Navy, a beautiful well-born wife and two children. Two of his new ironclads are sending shockwaves rippling through the navies of the British Empire s European and American rivals. But Jonathan has designed another shipa revolutionary warship so terrible that whoever possesses it will be master of the seas. And no one wants it more than the very people Jonathan works forthe British Government. But for reasons of his own, Jonathan has... What if the Nautilus and its famous captain wasn t fiction?
Jonathan de Chevalier Mason has it all: A promising career designing warships for Her ... |
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The Keeper's Son
ISBN: 9781250037374 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1941, Killakeet Island of the wind-swept Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to a tiny, peaceful population of fishermen, clam stompers, oyster rakers, and a few lonely sailors of the Coast Guard. Dominating the glorious, raw beauty of the little island is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, which for generations has been the responsibility of one family, the Thurlows. However, Josh Thurlow, the Keeper's son, has forsworn his heritage to become the commander of the Maudie Jane, a small Coast Guard patrol boat operating off Killakeet. Josh is still tortured by guilt, seventeen... In 1941, Killakeet Island of the wind-swept Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to a tiny, peaceful population of fishermen, clam stompers, oyste... |
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Ferdinand the Fisherman: A New Tale of Moby Dick
ISBN: 9781432795733 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While working in the South Pacific in 1990 this story came to me from two sources: the first was the reverence that the Hawaiian people hold for the sea creatures, especially whales, and the second was a Portuguese fellow named Ferdinand that enjoyed my poetry. The two came together in a dream state early one morning, and Moby Dick, the most famous of all whales in literature took his rightful place as the other main character. But in this story, Moby dick is "A gentle creature, friend of man, but shy of those who live on land." Both Moby Dick and Ferdinand each suffer tragedies, Moby Dick at...
While working in the South Pacific in 1990 this story came to me from two sources: the first was the reverence that the Hawaiian people hold for the s...
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Krążownik spod Samosierry Audiobook QES
ISBN: 9788361593096 / Polski / Plastikowa Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. „Krążownik...” to trzecia książka z naszego cyklu „morskich opowieści”. Powstała w odpowiedzi na pytania czytelników po ukazaniu się zbioru opowiadań „Znaczy Kapitan”; stanowi jego kontynuację, uzupełnienie i epilog. W książce znajdują się opowiadania o tematach bardzo odmiennych od siebie. Są więc wspomnienia ze szkół morskich w Tczewie i Southampton, z rejsów na żaglowcach oraz statkach handlowych i pasażerskich, przekształconych w czasie II wojny światowej
w transportowce wojskowe, wchodzące w skład sił alianckich. Niektóre z 26 opowiadań... „Krążownik...” to trzecia książka z naszego cyklu „morskich opowieści”. Powstała w odpowiedzi na pytania czytelników po ukazaniu się z...
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The Last of the Legions (1910)
ISBN: 9781447467595 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of detective Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist who...
This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur ...
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The Dealings of Captain Sharkey (1925)
ISBN: 9781447467953 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of detective Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist who...
This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur ...
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Congo: Spirit of Darkness
ISBN: 9780984666300 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the smooth, cool rock Layila watches as her elders beat the dust from their bright clothes, singing sweet songs of gods and demons; dreamlike stories of fire and water, forest and sky. She has never seen the evil spirits from her mother's songs, those that dwell in the deepest jungle, but Layila knows she must always keep watch for them, for they bring certain death and destruction to all. So when Layila sees the strange pale beings, with their unnatural gait, their sharp, unfamiliar smells, approaching her people at the waterside, she knows she must run. Vanishing herself into the...
On the smooth, cool rock Layila watches as her elders beat the dust from their bright clothes, singing sweet songs of gods and demons; dreamlike stori...
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The Kiss That Killed Me
ISBN: 9781911395003 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Callie Pierce turns 18 she has three very simple goals: avoid her stepfather, escape to an Ivy League university of her dreams, and party with her friends. But on a night like any other, when the moon is full over the ocean, her life changes in a way that no one could have ever seen coming. On the sandy beaches of San Diego she meets Orion, a man from whom she cannot stay away and to whom her return becomes as inevitable as the tide kissing the shore. If that isn't enough, a kiss which changes everything plunges Callie head first into a world of mythic responsibility, epic danger, and...
When Callie Pierce turns 18 she has three very simple goals: avoid her stepfather, escape to an Ivy League university of her dreams, and party with he...
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Deadly Misfortune: Book Two in the Quintspinner Trilogy
ISBN: 9781481166737 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A land whose name is no longer remembered, in a time no longer recalled. Five spinner rings, inlaid with crystals, and fashioned from precious metals and lodestone are sent out into the world by the Ancients, to be summoned by the presence of the one with the mark of a Quintspinner. WEST INDIES, 1718 Tess Willoughby and William Taylor have lived through worse times: they didn't drown in the shipwreck that brought them to this island, and they survived a harrowing escape from the hands of a vicious pirate crew. So far they have prevented anything from separating them. But now, one fall from a...
A land whose name is no longer remembered, in a time no longer recalled. Five spinner rings, inlaid with crystals, and fashioned from precious metals ...
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The Mystery of the Solar Wind
ISBN: 9780620465939 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I only have half of my crew, Paean Donegal " The year is 2116. Captain Radomir Lascek sails his pirate ship, the Solar Wind, around the oceans, collecting outlaws and fugitives and dodging the authorities. But then he hires three young musicians in Dublin - the Donegal Troubles. Radomir Lascek, with all his wily schemes, is about to learn the real meaning of "trouble."
"I only have half of my crew, Paean Donegal " The year is 2116. Captain Radomir Lascek sails his pirate ship, the Solar Wind, around the oceans, colle...
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Poor Jack
ISBN: 9783842475144 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Tales from the Sea: Secrets from a Cruise Ship
ISBN: 9781478712763 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Hostile Shores
ISBN: 9781250042521 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, was having a good year in the summer of 1805, commanding a small squadron of sloops in pursuit of French and Spanish privateers, till rumors of a huge French fleet at sea brought fears of invasion to tranquil Nassau in the Bahamas. He must defend the port, no matter the odds, at the risk of his very life Relieved and reinforced at the last moment, he is off for a welcome return to England, where only very creative truth twisting can gain Lewrie fresh orders to the South Atlantic. Under mercurial Commodore Sir Home Riggs Popham, Lewrie... Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, was having a good year in the summer of 1805, commanding a small squadron of sloops in pursuit of French an... |
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The Narrow Corner
ISBN: 9780099286882 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancee, the cool and beautiful Louise.
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
ISBN: 9780099528531 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is believed to be a huge creature haunting the seas turns out to be a man-made vessel, and three men find themselves the helpless prisoners of Captain Nemo. Resigned to their fate, they begin a miraculous journey on this submarine ship which can travel through waters never before explored.
What is believed to be a huge creature haunting the seas turns out to be a man-made vessel, and three men find themselves the helpless prisoners of Ca...
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Moonfleet
ISBN: 9780099541127 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thrilling Victorian adventure story of smuggling, cursed treasure, code-cracking, injustice, revenge, and friendship Beginning as a mystery and an adventure story, this tale of smuggling is set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? How can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune's treasure? As the book progresses these two interwoven themes resolve themselves into a third and richer one, with the friendship and suffering of both John Trenchard and the craggy, taciturn...
A thrilling Victorian adventure story of smuggling, cursed treasure, code-cracking, injustice, revenge, and friendship Beginning as a mystery a...
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Treasure Island
ISBN: 9780140437683 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions. But Jim soon becomes only too aware that he is not the only one who knows of the map's existence, and his bravery and cunning are tested to the full when, with his friends Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey, he sets sail in the Hispaniola to track down the treasure. With its swift-moving plot and memorably drawn characters--Blind...
The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister cir...
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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
ISBN: 9780141199603 / Angielski / Twarda / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of Penguin s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
In part, Moby-Dickis the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dickis a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated... Part of Penguin s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collec...
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Captains Courageous
ISBN: 9780142437711 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1897, Captain Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew of the fishing ship We're Here. Obstinate and spoiled at first, Harvey in due course learns diligence and responsibility and earns the camaraderie of the seamen, who treat him as one of their own. A true test of character, Harvey's months aboard the We're Here provide a delightful glimpse of life at sea and well-told morals of discipline, empathy, and self-reliance.
First published in 1897, Captain Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after ...
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Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale
ISBN: 9780143105954 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in...
Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history Over a century and a half after its publication...
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