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Tahiti, the Island Paradise
ISBN: 9781023437103 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
80,67 |
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Tahiti, the Island Paradise
ISBN: 9781023437141 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,02 |
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Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company
ISBN: 9781023526579 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
59,39 |
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The Isle of Vanishing Men
ISBN: 9781023549684 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
76,42 |
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The Isle of Vanishing Men
ISBN: 9781023549721 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
131,75 |
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Vikings of the Pacific
ISBN: 9781023041126 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
101,96 |
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Eyes Of Fire: The last voyage and legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
ISBN: 9781877484513 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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191,57 |
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The Myth of the Natural Laboratory
ISBN: 9798880700721 / Angielski / Twarda / 31-12-2025 / 277 str. Książka dostępna od: 31-12-2025 |
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267,12 |
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Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History
ISBN: 9780824899301 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,15 |
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
ISBN: 9780060555597 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about the secret undersea lives of lobsters. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reade... |
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72,18 |
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The Bounty Mutiny
ISBN: 9780140439168 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began what would be the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to safety in Timor. The mutineers led by Fletcher Christian sailed off into a mystery that has never been entirely resolved. While...
The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this fa...
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91,22 |
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
ISBN: 9780142004838 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries.
A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of... "A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, ...
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72,22 |
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The Private Journal of William Reynolds: United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
ISBN: 9780143039051 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the finest nineteenth-century first-person narratives of a sea voyage in existence, and a principle source for Sea of Glory, The Private Journal of William Reynolds brings to life the boisterous world traversed by the six vessels that comprised America's first ocean-going voyage of discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. With great eloquence and verve Midshipman William Reynolds describes the harrowing 87,000-mile, four-year circuit of the globe, and relates the story of how the abusive commander of the Ex. Ex., Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, gradually lost the...
One of the finest nineteenth-century first-person narratives of a sea voyage in existence, and a principle source for Sea of Glory, The Priv...
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76,02 |
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United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier
ISBN: 9780268043087 / Angielski / Twarda / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers a history of the Pacific as a frontier of the United States using economics, politics, and culture as its central areas of consideration. While many studies have analyzed specific regions within the Pacific, this work considers the whole of this vast ocean and its coasts as a single unit of study. In broadening the scope of analysis, one of the author's primary aims is to expand American understanding of the term frontier to include the Pacific and its nations. It covers periods stretching from 1784, the year the first ship flying the American flag reached China, to 1867, the...
This work offers a history of the Pacific as a frontier of the United States using economics, politics, and culture as its central areas of considerat...
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203,61 |
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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas
ISBN: 9780300100921 / Angielski / Twarda / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they "discovered." While Cook and his men were initially confounded by the Polynesians, they were also curious. Cook and his crew soon formed friendships--and often more intimate relationships--with the islanders. The islanders, who initially were not certain if the Englishmen were even human, came to experiment with Western customs and in some cases joined the voyagers on their expeditions. But familiarity quickly bred contempt....
This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island p...
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362,41 |
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Serpent in Paradise
ISBN: 9780385488716 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders--descendants of the Bounty mutineers--Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two centuries, "Fletcher Christian's children," whose culture and language are a bizarre blend of Polynesian and eighteenth-century English, have lived out a unique social experiment.
Acclaimed British travel writer and journalist Dea Birkett, obsessed like many with the island's image as a secluded Eden and its connection to the mysterious and intriguing... Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders--descendants of the Bounty mutineers--Pitcairn has...
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68,42 |
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The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969: The Anatomy of Betrayal
ISBN: 9780415406253 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether the West Papuan people ever genuinely exercised self-determination.
Examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions ...
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271,44 |
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The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
ISBN: 9780521273169 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data have since been exploited. The author combines this fresh archaeological data with comparative ethnographic and linguistic materials to present an innovative and perceptive account of the processes of culture change in the islands over three millennia. Using comparative ethnography, lexical...
This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of comp...
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263,49 |