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Sketches of Persia: From the Journals of a Traveller in the East
ISBN: 9781108028660 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sketches of Persia, although published anonymously in 1827, is attributed to Sir John Malcolm (1769 1833). Malcolm was a diplomat and administrator in India: arriving at the age of fourteen in 1783 to work for the East India Company, he was known during his long career as 'Boy' Malcolm. He swiftly moved into more political and diplomatic roles. He became fluent in Persian and was despatched to Persia for part of his career, though he would eventually return to India and become Governor of Bombay (1827 1830). In Volume 1 of Sketches, Malcolm starts the journey from Bombay, sailing into the...
Sketches of Persia, although published anonymously in 1827, is attributed to Sir John Malcolm (1769 1833). Malcolm was a diplomat and administrator in...
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The Hospital at the End of the World
ISBN: 9780911051377 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,84 |
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Die preußische Expedition nach Ostasien in den Jahren 1859-1862
ISBN: 9783864442575 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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438,62 |
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The Travels of Ibn Batūta: With Notes, Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiquities, Etc. Occurring Throughout the Work
ISBN: 9781108041973 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This English edition of the work of the Arab traveller usually known as Ibn Battuta (1304 68/9) was translated by Rev. Samuel Lee (1783 1852), Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, from 'the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge', and published in 1829. Lee's work sparked widespread European interest in Ibn Battuta, who had set off from his native Morocco on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325, and kept travelling for the next twenty-four years, reaching as far east as China and as far south as Zanzibar, as well as visiting parts of Spain and...
This English edition of the work of the Arab traveller usually known as Ibn Battuta (1304 68/9) was translated by Rev. Samuel Lee (1783 1852), Profess...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
ISBN: 9781108041980 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821 90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851 2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described in this lively three-volume publication (1855 6). Few Europeans had ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis Burckhardt, whose...
The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821 90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he w...
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The Land of Israel: A Journal of Travels in Palestine, Undertaken with Special Reference to Its Physical Character
ISBN: 9781108042055 / Angielski / Miękka / 706 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ornithologist and clergyman H. B. Tristram (1822 1906), who became both a Fellow of the Royal Society and Canon residentiary of Durham, began his literary career with an account of his ventures into the desert of Algeria, where he had travelled seeking a salubrious winter climate. This subsequent book, published in 1865, narrates his journey through Palestine in 1863 4. An engaging account, written for a popular audience, it combines detailed observations of antiquities, geography, and the native wildlife with scriptural quotations; its stated aim is to demonstrate that the Bible accurately...
Ornithologist and clergyman H. B. Tristram (1822 1906), who became both a Fellow of the Royal Society and Canon residentiary of Durham, began his lite...
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399,37 |
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Travels in Palestine, Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan: Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in t
ISBN: 9781108042178 / Angielski / Miękka / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms and for the promotion of the temperance movement. He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum, covering a wide range of topics from...
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the...
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470,15 |
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Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia: With Some Account of Their Antiquities and Geology
ISBN: 9781108042253 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diplomat and M. P. William Hamilton (1805 67) was also a keen geologist and a protege of Sir Roderick Murchison. In 1835 he set off with a companion for the eastern Mediterranean, visiting the Ionian Islands, the Bosphorus and the volcanic area called the Katakekaumene. Hamilton then continued alone on horseback through Armenia and Asia Minor before returning to Smyrna (Izmir). Having already published some of his notes as papers for the Geological Society, he published this two-volume account in 1842. The work was praised by Alexander von Humboldt, and in 1843 it won Hamilton the...
The diplomat and M. P. William Hamilton (1805 67) was also a keen geologist and a protege of Sir Roderick Murchison. In 1835 he set off with a compani...
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348,77 |
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Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia: With Some Account of Their Antiquities and Geology
ISBN: 9781108042260 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diplomat and M. P. William Hamilton (1805 67) was also a keen geologist and a protege of Sir Roderick Murchison. In 1835 he set off with a companion for the eastern Mediterranean, visiting the Ionian Islands, the Bosphorus and the volcanic area called the Katakekaumene. Hamilton then continued alone on horseback through Armenia and Asia Minor before returning to Smyrna (Izmir). Having already published some of his notes as papers for the Geological Society, he published this two-volume account in 1842. The work was praised by Alexander von Humboldt, and in 1843 it won Hamilton the...
The diplomat and M. P. William Hamilton (1805 67) was also a keen geologist and a protege of Sir Roderick Murchison. In 1835 he set off with a compani...
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369,04 |
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Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope: Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs
ISBN: 9781108042284 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a government pension and decided to leave England. Her personal physician Charles Meryon (1783 1877) wrote this three-volume memoir of their travels, first published in 1846. She had a reputation as an eccentric, but thought of herself as the 'Queen of the desert' and indeed achieved considerable influence in the places she travelled to. Eventually...
The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostes...
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Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope: Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs
ISBN: 9781108042291 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a government pension and decided to leave England. Her personal physician Charles Meryon (1783 1877) wrote this three-volume memoir of their travels, first published in 1846. She had a reputation as an eccentric, but thought of herself as the 'Queen of the desert' and indeed achieved considerable influence in the places she travelled to. Eventually...
The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostes...
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Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope: Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs
ISBN: 9781108042307 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a government pension and decided to leave England. Her personal physician Charles Meryon (1783 1877) wrote this three-volume memoir of their travels, first published in 1846. She had a reputation as an eccentric, but thought of herself as the 'Queen of the desert' and indeed achieved considerable influence in the places she travelled to. Eventually...
The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostes...
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Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey: And Other Countries of the East
ISBN: 9781108044028 / Angielski / Miękka / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Walpole (1781 1856), great-nephew and namesake of Britain's first prime minister, was a classical scholar and clergyman. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, he visited Greece and the Middle East. This work, first published in 1817 and reissued in its second edition in 1818, consists of extracts from the unpublished papers of J. B. S. Morritt, John Sibthorp, Philip Hunt, J. D. Carlyle and other travellers, with descriptions of antiquities, and notes by the editor. The topics vary considerably and reflect the wide interests of contemporary educated and travelled men at a...
Robert Walpole (1781 1856), great-nephew and namesake of Britain's first prime minister, was a classical scholar and clergyman. After graduating from ...
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The Garden of Asia: Impressions from Japan
ISBN: 9781108037211 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reginald J. Farrer (1880 1920) was a traveller and plant collector who was an important influence on horticultural style in England. In 1902 he embarked on an expedition to Asia, where he was inspired by the rock gardens of Tokyo, Yokohama and Beijing, and discovered plant species such as Clematis macropetala, and the eponymous Geranium farreri and Viburnum farreri, which are now common in European gardens. In his first book, published in 1904, he records his experiences in Japan and other Asian countries, vividly recounting his impressions of, and his passion for, eastern landscape, terrain,...
Reginald J. Farrer (1880 1920) was a traveller and plant collector who was an important influence on horticultural style in England. In 1902 he embark...
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237,60 |
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Central-Asien
ISBN: 9783845710105 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 724 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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245,00 |
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Central-Asien
ISBN: 9783845710112 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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245,00 |
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On the Tea Road: A journey into Mongolian life and culture
ISBN: 9781461009580 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "On the tea road: A journey into Mongolia life and culture" tells about the life and culture of the Mongolian nomads in the 21st century. Using the history of the tea road as alibi to meet nomads in their daily life, the book provides information, commentaries and explanation about Mongolian culture in general and about the life style of the people the author introduces in the book in particular. These are stories about real people encountered during a journey throughout the country. The book relates how people of Mongolia make sense of their life in their particular natural environment. Thus...
"On the tea road: A journey into Mongolia life and culture" tells about the life and culture of the Mongolian nomads in the 21st century. Using the hi...
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95,78 |
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Not for All the Tea in China
ISBN: 9781467879477 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,33 |
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Palestine Past and Present: With Biblical, Literary, and Scientific Notices
ISBN: 9781593335700 / Angielski / Twarda / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nineteenth-century travelogue in a class by itself, Osborn's account of his travels through the Holy Land is sprinkled with literary, biblical, and scientific observations. This work on the physical geography of the Holy Land remains undiminished despite the years since its publication.
A nineteenth-century travelogue in a class by itself, Osborn's account of his travels through the Holy Land is sprinkled with literary, biblical, and ...
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901,70 |
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In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release (Volu
ISBN: 9781849022095 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The full text of Landor's classic, relating his adventures and misadventures in Tibet. This edition contains all the over 250 original black and white photographs. Complete--includes Volumes I and II and Appendices.
The full text of Landor's classic, relating his adventures and misadventures in Tibet. This edition contains all the over 250 original black and white...
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