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12 Monkeys & a Green Jacket
ISBN: 9781493189717 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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Alsace-Lorraine
ISBN: 9781628451795 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alsace-Lorraine
By F. Y. Eccles Contents "Alsace-Lorraine" by F. Y. Eccles "The Evolution of Thought in Modern France" by Ernest Dimnet "Russia and Britain" by Percy Dearmer "Rumania: Her History and Politics" by D. Mitrany "Poetry and War" by Sir Herbert Warren Excerpt from "Alcase-Lorraine by F. Y. Eccles" France is not at war about Alsace-Lorraine, but nobody doubts that if the Germans are beaten she will get back the provinces torn from her forty-four years ago. Her sacrifices, her credit, her security require their restitution, and since an unprovoked... Alsace-Lorraine
By F. Y. Eccles Contents "Alsace-Lorraine" by F. Y. Eccles "The Evolution of Thought in Modern France" by Ernest Dimne... |
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44,47 |
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Alsace-Lorraine
ISBN: 9781628451801 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ALSACE-LORRAINE
By George Wharton Edwards Contents The Lost Provinces The German Yoke Ferrette, a Toy Village Altkirch The Feast of the Pipers Mulhouse Colmar The Vineyards Fete Days and Customs Sainte Odile The Quaint Houses Dreien-Eguisheim Turckheim Thann Rosheim Metz Strassburg The Real Reason The Land of Tears Bibliography Index Excerpt from Foreword The one dominating purpose of the people of Alsace-Lorraine is their reunion with the mother country: France. A temporary or final... ALSACE-LORRAINE By George Wharton Edwards Contents The Lost Provinces The German Yoke Ferrette, a Toy Village Altkirch |
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68,74 |
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The Historical Geography of the Holy Land: Especially in Relation to the History of Israel and of the Early Church
ISBN: 9781108075398 / Angielski / Miękka / 726 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was immediately recognised on its publication in 1894 as a major work of scholarship, and reached twenty-five editions during its author's lifetime. The intention of George Adam Smith (1856-1942) was to produce a work which would 'give a vision of the land as a whole' and help the reader 'to hear through it the sound of running history'. Smith, an enthusiastic alpinist, had studied divinity in Edinburgh, and first visited Palestine in 1880, travelling around the country on foot. The book was written while Smith was teaching at Glasgow, and working on various social projects in...
This book was immediately recognised on its publication in 1894 as a major work of scholarship, and reached twenty-five editions during its author's l...
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384,38 |
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Arctic Miscellanies: A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search
ISBN: 9781108074797 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1850, a small squadron of British naval vessels, under the command of Horatio Austin, sought to locate the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. The ships were trapped in ice by September 1850 and the men were forced to endure the forbidding Arctic winter, finally returning to England in October 1851. This book, published in 1852 and reissued here in the second edition that quickly followed the first, is a collection of articles which appeared in the Aurora Borealis, a newspaper edited by the surgeon James John Louis Donnet (1816 1905) aboard HMS Assistance. It features...
In 1850, a small squadron of British naval vessels, under the command of Horatio Austin, sought to locate the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Fr...
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256,26 |
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The Voyages and Travels of Captains Parry, Franklin, Ross, and MR Belzoni: Forming an Interesting History of the Manners, Customs, and Characters of V
ISBN: 9781108074933 / Angielski / Miękka / 718 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Little is known about the life of Captain John Frederick Dennett, who published this compilation of travel narratives in 1826, with a second edition in 1835. A naval officer, he was clearly familiar with recent developments in polar exploration, but his writing also had an educational and moral purpose. 'It must be attended with advantage to become acquainted with the state of mankind in other parts of the world', but also it will be encouraging to the poor in Britain 'to find that the lowest state of comfort in this country is preferable to all the enjoyments within the reach of natives of...
Little is known about the life of Captain John Frederick Dennett, who published this compilation of travel narratives in 1826, with a second edition i...
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394,63 |
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Life of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock, K.C.B., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S., V.P.R.G.S.
ISBN: 9781108075077 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography of polar explorer Sir Leopold McClintock (his name is also spelled M'Clintock) was published in 1909 by his 'old messmate' Sir Clements Markham (1830 1916), later more famous as a historian. (Several works by both men have been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.) McClintock (1819 1907) gained experience of Arctic voyages on the expeditions of James Clark Ross and Edward Belcher, during which he undertook several arduous sledge journeys over the ice. In 1854, he took leave from the navy to command the Fox, a ship paid for by Lady Franklin to investigate the fate of...
This biography of polar explorer Sir Leopold McClintock (his name is also spelled M'Clintock) was published in 1909 by his 'old messmate' Sir Clements...
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271,64 |
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The Time Travellers Guide to Staffordshire
ISBN: 9781496043085 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,47 |
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War Crimes: How Warlords, Politicians, Foreign Governments and Aid Agencies Conspired to Create a Failed State in Somalia
ISBN: 9781496982810 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In War Crimes Kenyan journalist Rasna Warah exposes how foreign governments and humanitarian agencies conspired to keep Somalia in a permanent state of under-development and conflict and how Somali politicians, warlords, clan-based fiefdoms and terrorists benefited from the ensuing chaos and anarchy. The book is about the many war crimes that have taken place in Somalia in the name of peace, development, religion and reconciliation. It reveals who gained from the spoils of war and who paid the price. War Crimes is an insightful examination of why a failed state colluded in its own destruction...
In War Crimes Kenyan journalist Rasna Warah exposes how foreign governments and humanitarian agencies conspired to keep Somalia in a permanent state o...
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83,64 |
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Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent: In Company with the Earl of Belmore, during the Years 1816–17–18
ISBN: 9781108076036 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After qualifying as a physician, Robert Richardson (1779-1847) joined the household of the earl of Belmore, and accompanied him and his family on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean in his yacht the Osprey, converted from a captured American schooner. Richardson dedicated this two-volume work to his patron in 1822. Having spent several months in Naples, the party travelled through the Greek islands to Constantinople, arriving in Alexandria in September 1817. Volume 2 describes further exploration in Egypt, before the party travelled into Palestine, where they visited Jerusalem and the Holy...
After qualifying as a physician, Robert Richardson (1779-1847) joined the household of the earl of Belmore, and accompanied him and his family on a to...
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338,21 |
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Travels Along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent: In Company with the Earl of Belmore, During the Years 1816-17-18
ISBN: 9781108076029 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After qualifying as a physician, Robert Richardson (1779-1847) joined the household of the earl of Belmore, and accompanied him and his family on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean in his yacht the Osprey, converted from a captured American schooner. Richardson dedicated this two-volume work to his patron in 1822. Having spent several months in Naples, the party travelled through the Greek islands to Constantinople, arriving in Alexandria in September 1817. Volume 1 recounts their journey up the Nile, exploring both the antiquities of Egypt and the modern cities, especially Cairo, where...
After qualifying as a physician, Robert Richardson (1779-1847) joined the household of the earl of Belmore, and accompanied him and his family on a to...
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353,59 |
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The Experience of Suburban Modernity: How Private Transport Changed Interwar London
ISBN: 9780719089190 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The experience of suburban modernity explores how the adoption of new forms of private transport transformed inter-war suburban London. It shows how London's suburban middle classes used their newly found disposable income to enjoy driving, motorcycling and flying. The experience of suburban modernity demonstrates that these new practices were welcomed by many, but met resistance to change from those who were dismayed by the accidents that resulted from increased mobility and the aesthetic and cultural changes that were the consequence of Americanisation and suburban development.
The book... The experience of suburban modernity explores how the adoption of new forms of private transport transformed inter-war suburban London. It shows how L...
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438,22 |
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Historic Maps of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813156019 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maps published frorn the third quarter of the eighteenth century through the Civil War reflect in colorful detail the emergence of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the unfolding art of American cartography. Ten maps, selected and annotated by the most eminent historian of Kentucky, have been reproduced in authentic facsimiles. The accompanying booklet includes an illuminating historical essay, as well as notes on the individuaL facsimiles, and is illustrated with numerous details of other notable Kentucky maps. Among the rare maps reproduced are one of the battlefield of Perryville... Maps published frorn the third quarter of the eighteenth century through the Civil War reflect in colorful detail the emergence of the Commonwealth... |
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88,16 |
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Then and Now: An Anderson Valley Journey
ISBN: 9780990456605 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through its long history, Anderson Valley-located in Northern California's Mendocino County-has changed significantly, and yet this book shows that in some ways it has altered very little. By presenting old and new photographs of selected buildings and homes, accompanied by brief "biographies," this book provides a journey through history. The reader is encouraged to literally take an excursion along the length of the Valley and, by using the mile markers provided, observe and learn about the sixty locations that are featured alongside or near to Highway 128. Then and Now is intended to...
Through its long history, Anderson Valley-located in Northern California's Mendocino County-has changed significantly, and yet this book shows that in...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation: Volume XIV, America Part III
ISBN: 9781500418762 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, af...
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48,51 |
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Malvern Hill, Run Up to Gettysburg: The Tragic Struggle
ISBN: 9781491740897 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Malvern Hill, Run Up To Gettysburg" is a history of the American Civil War, the battles, and the men who fought them. The book is distinguished by its effort to give equal attention to some of the lesser-known battles and unfamiliar actors, as well as some of the less publicized events that occurred off the battlefield. The book takes a critical look at the leaders on both sides and their decisions on the battlefield and the impact of those decisions on the lives of their men and the progress of war itself.
"Malvern Hill, Run Up To Gettysburg" is a history of the American Civil War, the battles, and the men who fought them. The book is distinguished by it...
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150,10 |
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The Dam Is Coming: The Nevers Dam Project - 1890
ISBN: 9781500265991 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Dam is Coming" is a fictional history novel about the largest wood-pile dams in the world, built in 1890, located just 12 miles north of Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin on the scenic Saint Croix River. The story is told by Paul C. Wellington a twelve years old growing up a mile from Never's Dam in what is today Wild River State Park. With his friend Paul, they give a firsthand account of the Nevers Dam construction that finally tamed the wild Saint Croix River and how the lumber was delivered to the saw mills. Join Paul and Peter as they watch this historic Never's Dam become the most...
"The Dam is Coming" is a fictional history novel about the largest wood-pile dams in the world, built in 1890, located just 12 miles north of Saint Cr...
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A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa
ISBN: 9781108076425 / Angielski / Miękka / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Backhouse (1794-1869) came from a family of accomplished naturalists and horticulturalists. As a Quaker, he spent several years in Australia engaged in missionary and humanitarian work, after which he returned to England via Mauritius and South Africa. The present work, first published in 1844, is adapted from his journals of that journey, providing a rich and personal account. It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Backhouse's horticultural...
James Backhouse (1794-1869) came from a family of accomplished naturalists and horticulturalists. As a Quaker, he spent several years in Australia eng...
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476,64 |
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A Voyage to the South-Sea and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714: With a PostScript by Dr Edmund Halley and an Acco
ISBN: 9781108077002 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amedee-Francois Frezier (1682-1773). In 1712, he was sent on a spying mission to the Spanish ports and fortifications of South America, travelling along the Pacific coastline as far as Callao, the port of Lima. His maps were later used by two of France's most famous explorers, Bougainville and Laperouse. Frezier also took a keen interest in botany, mineralogy, economics and anthropology. His most celebrated achievement is the introduction to Europe of the Chilean strawberry, which was used to create...
The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amedee-Francois Frezier (1682-1773). In 1712, he was sent...
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192,68 |
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The South Pole: an Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12. Volume 1 and Volume 2
ISBN: 9781409206798 / Angielski / Twarda / 666 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen (1872 1928) and his Norwegian team became the first humans to reach the South Pole, a month before their ill-fated British rivals under the leadership of Robert Falcon Scott. Reissued here is the 1912 English translation of Amundsen's two-volume account of how this extraordinary and perilous feat was achieved. Illustrated throughout with illuminating maps and photographs, the text contains important details relating to matters of climate, equipment, diet, sledging and survival in forbiddingly cold conditions over uncertain terrain. Underpinning Amundsen's...
On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen (1872 1928) and his Norwegian team became the first humans to reach the South Pole, a month before their ill-fated...
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