At the Edge of the Village
ISBN: 9781591280170 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being a missionary in Ivory Coast, West Africa is not only about dangers, hard work, and culture shock, interspersed with moments of high joy and deep sorrow; it is life found in the small and daily things, the quotidian experience which renders familiar a vastly different way of life, a life at the edge of the village. This book collects Lisa Leidenfrost's sketches of missionary life, compiled from letters sent home from Ivory Coast to her church in the United States, and they tell of the ordinary and extraordinary, the solemn and the playful, the mundane and the exotic, together creating a...
Being a missionary in Ivory Coast, West Africa is not only about dangers, hard work, and culture shock, interspersed with moments of high joy and deep...
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Just Leave the Tree-Trunk Alone: A Magical-Realistic Journey Through the Land of the Bawng in the Congo
ISBN: 9780955640032 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Just leave the tree-trunk alone, the beetle is crawling out.' This Bawong proverb means: surrender to the divine course. Man must not start tugging at this tree, the beetle is already busy cleaning it up. In 1967, Tony van Buren went as a missionary-sponsored anthropologist to the Bawong of the Congo, neighbours of the Lele made famous by Mary Douglas, initially to investigate her contentions about the 'non-religious' reasons for the mission's success there. Like Douglas, he found his encounter there to be the most important of his life. Stalled by the prospect of presenting beliefs he could...
'Just leave the tree-trunk alone, the beetle is crawling out.' This Bawong proverb means: surrender to the divine course. Man must not start tugging a...
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323,87 zł |
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
ISBN: 9780544227934 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Theroux is at his best when he tells people's] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux's great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself--and thus, to challenge us." -- Boston Globe
Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have changed in the ensuing years. Traveling alone, Theroux sets out from Cape Town,... "Theroux is at his best when he tells people's] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux's great mission had always been to transport us beyond that read...
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72,79 zł |
Sorcerers and Orange Peel
ISBN: 9781906852276 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sorcery is a fact of life in many African societies; the supernatural is taken for granted. In SORCERERS AND ORANGE PEEL, author Ian Mathie describes how this other dimension plays a role - somethings amusing, sometimes frightening, always intriguing - in everyday life in remote West Africa.
Sorcery is a fact of life in many African societies; the supernatural is taken for granted. In SORCERERS AND ORANGE PEEL, author Ian Mathie describes ...
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80,91 zł |
Birds of Western Africa: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780691159201 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised and expanded edition of Birds of Western Africa is now the most up-to-date field guide available to the 1,285 species of birds found in the region--from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic and south to Congo. It now features all maps and text opposite the plates for quick and easy reference. The comprehensive species accounts have been fully updated and expanded, and the color distribution maps have been completely revised. This premier guide also includes more than 3,000 illustrations on 266 stunning color plates. Compact... This revised and expanded edition of Birds of Western Africa is now the most up-to-date field guide available to the 1,285 species of birds ... |
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214,20 zł |
Three Cheers for Ghana
ISBN: 9780995552449 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,26 zł |
Peaceful Freeman: A Story by a Peaceful Freeman on the Land
ISBN: 9781546289500 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,15 zł |
Peaceful Freeman: A Story by a Peaceful Freeman on the Land
ISBN: 9781546289517 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Namibia
ISBN: 9783961711284 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unmissable travel document from New York Times acclaimed photographer, Michael Poliza.
An unmissable travel document from New York Times acclaimed photographer, Michael Poliza.
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406,98 zł |
Yoruba-English/ English-Yoruba Dictionary & Phrasebook
ISBN: 9780781813891 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,05 zł |
At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
ISBN: 9781847012227 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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406,98 zł |
Sea of the Unknown: Monsters and Mishaps on my Journey to Paris
ISBN: 9780996902151 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,92 zł |
Field Guide to the Birds of Ghana: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781472987723 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,04 zł |
West Africa Calling
ISBN: 9781988001555 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,11 zł |
At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
ISBN: 9781847013354 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,13 zł |
Brother of the Bride
ISBN: 9781911587668 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,94 zł |
You Speak Good English for a Nigerian
ISBN: 9781734949711 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,80 zł |
Pump it up Magazine - Emmerson Afro-Pop Multiple Award Winning Singer From Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9781088057490 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Short Account of That Part of Africa: With Respect to the Fertility of the Country; The Good Disposition of Many of the Natives, and the Manner by Whi
ISBN: 9781429013833 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Good Disposition Of Many Of The Natives And The Manner By Which The Slave Trade Is Carried On.
The Good Disposition Of Many Of The Natives And The Manner By Which The Slave Trade Is Carried On.
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44,76 zł |