How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
ISBN: 9780156001250 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent essays (Atlantic Monthly), the Andy Rooney of academia (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
" In these impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent essays (Atlantic Monthly), the Andy Rooney of academia (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon...
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73,86 zł |
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
ISBN: 9781400078523 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer's sang-froid, a historian's erudition, and a sense of irony so keen you could cut a finger on it, Gimlette celebrates the beauty, horror and-yes-charm of South America's obscure and remote "island surrounded by land." He takes readers from genteel drawing rooms in Asuncion-where ladies still gossip about the nineteenth-century Irish adventuress who became...
Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting ...
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87,15 zł |
A Word or Two Before You Go
ISBN: 9780393009804 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,93 zł |
Friends Like These: My Worldwide Quest to Find My Best Childhood Friends, Knock on Their Doors, and Ask Them to Come Out and Play
ISBN: 9780316042772 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As he nears 30, Wallace can't help wondering about his best childhood friends, whose names he finds in a long-forgotten address book. Acting on impulse, the author travels the world, risking rejection and ridicule, to show up on his old buddies' doorsteps.
As he nears 30, Wallace can't help wondering about his best childhood friends, whose names he finds in a long-forgotten address book. Acting on impuls...
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178,66 zł |
The Peace Correspondent
ISBN: 9789881815460 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a fresh and often hilarious perspective, this account chronicles journalist Garry Marchant s travels around Asia during a 30-year period. Covering familiar and lesser-known points in the East, this detailed guide reflects upon the similarities and differences between various Asian locales and demonstrates how the region has evolved in recent decades. Written by a curious and well-seasoned traveler, this remarkable record is filled with invaluable information as well as amusing anecdotes."
Offering a fresh and often hilarious perspective, this account chronicles journalist Garry Marchant s travels around Asia during a 30-year period. Cov...
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87,80 zł |
Following the Equator V1
ISBN: 9780880015189 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his delight in embellishing the facts. The personalities of the ship's crew and passengers, the poetry of Australian place-names, and the success of women's suffrage in New Zealand, among other topics, are the focus of his wry humor and redoubtable powers of observation. Following the... Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. The first of ... |
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78,44 zł |
Among Friends: Travels in Cuba
ISBN: 9783033057661 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among Friends: Travels in Cuba is a lively account of one person's discovery of Cuba and Cubans over a decade-long series of visits. Murray falls in love with the country but never stops asking questions as her radius of exploration widens. With an eye for the telling details of daily life, Murray first savors the mixture of timeless beauty and decrepitude that defines Havana and then sets out for provinces to the west and east of the capital. We get to know Julian, her Cuban guide and friend; Magdalena, protective landlady and outspoken critic of the Castro regime;... Among Friends: Travels in Cuba is a lively account of one person's discovery of Cuba and Cubans over a decade-long series of visit... |
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65,32 zł |
Jetway Reunion: Book Two in the Jetlagged Comic Collection
ISBN: 9780692938737 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,01 zł |
Walking West on the Camino--Encore Une Fois
ISBN: 9780999242407 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,68 zł |
Beautiful Mistakes: Poetry from Portland, Seattle, and Twin Peaks
ISBN: 9781945436222 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,62 zł |
Scotland Roadtrip
ISBN: 9781947258129 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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30,28 zł |
Dear 20-Something
ISBN: 9780692063439 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,68 zł |
Silly Isles
ISBN: 9780732285944 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,20 zł |
Walking West on the Camino--Encore Une Fois
ISBN: 9780999242421 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,68 zł |
The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and Abroad
ISBN: 9781496214690 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,94 zł |
Qu'elle est bleue ma vallée: La vraie Provence
ISBN: 9791096459056 / Francuski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,16 zł |
Biking, Lessons, Blessings and Beer: Across the U.S. on 14 Gears
ISBN: 9780578483597 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,29 zł |
Messages from Mooseville: A Year in Alaska
ISBN: 9781732995857 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,87 zł |
French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
ISBN: 9781609521837 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,04 zł |
The World Was My Garden, Too
ISBN: 9781948692144 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,37 zł |