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Aus dem Lande der Mitte
ISBN: 9783846066522 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Geographische Charakterbilder aus Asien
ISBN: 9783864443732 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aus Reiseberichten zusammengestellte geographische Charakterbilder aus Asien. Nachdruck des Originals von 1887.
Aus Reiseberichten zusammengestellte geographische Charakterbilder aus Asien. Nachdruck des Originals von 1887.
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Das unruhige Asien
ISBN: 9783846063064 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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358,80 |
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Indische Gletscherfahrten
ISBN: 9783864442223 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nachdruck des Originals von 1923 uber Reisen und Erlebnisse im Ost- und West-Himalaja. Mit einer Karte, funf Abbildungen und 83 Bildern nach photographischen Aufnahmen des Verfassers.
Nachdruck des Originals von 1923 uber Reisen und Erlebnisse im Ost- und West-Himalaja. Mit einer Karte, funf Abbildungen und 83 Bildern nach photograp...
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China und Japan
ISBN: 9783846028223 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 690 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch 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 worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++The below...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, er...
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Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island: With an Appendix, Containing Charts, and Various Hydrograp
ISBN: 9781108080422 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A naval officer and man of science, Basil Hall (1788-1844) commanded the brig HMS Lyra as part of Lord Amherst's 1816 embassy to the Qing court in China. While Amherst was engaged on his ultimately abortive venture, the mission's ships visited the west coast of Korea, and then travelled to the island of Okinawa (then known as the Great Loo-Choo Island), where they stayed for several weeks. Little was known about these regions in Britain, and this illustrated account of the journey offered many insights. As well as providing nautical data, such as surveys, soundings and meteorological...
A naval officer and man of science, Basil Hall (1788-1844) commanded the brig HMS Lyra as part of Lord Amherst's 1816 embassy to the Qing court in Chi...
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358,93 |
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Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of Travels in the Years 1838 and 1852
ISBN: 9781108079891 / Angielski / Miękka / 622 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American philologist Edward Robinson (1794 1863) is considered a founding figure in the field of biblical geography and archaeology. In 1838 he explored Palestine with Eli Smith (1801 57), a Yale graduate and Protestant missionary, and co-author of Missionary Researches in Armenia (also reissued in this series). Smith had settled in Beirut and was proficient in Arabic. The authors succeeded in identifying many biblical locations, and the original edition of their book, structured as a travel journal, was published in 1841. It was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society the...
American philologist Edward Robinson (1794 1863) is considered a founding figure in the field of biblical geography and archaeology. In 1838 he explor...
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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868volume 7
ISBN: 9780520232693 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias--to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study...
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, tra...
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An Account of Discoveries in Lycia: Being a Journal Kept During a Second Excursion in Asia Minor
ISBN: 9781108080705 / Angielski / Miękka / 626 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The traveller and archaeologist Sir Charles Fellows (1799 1860) made several trips through Asia Minor. This work, first published in 1841, is an account of the second of these journeys, recording his careful observations of the places he visited in 1840. During his first trip in 1838 he had seen the ruins of ancient cities that were hardly known to Europeans at that time, and he soon returned to focus his attention on Lycia. Fellows provides here a lively narrative of his discoveries, along with his own detailed drawings and many inscriptions in ancient Greek. His publications generated...
The traveller and archaeologist Sir Charles Fellows (1799 1860) made several trips through Asia Minor. This work, first published in 1841, is an accou...
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Three Voyages of Vasco Da Gama, and His Viceroyalty: From the Lendas Da India of Gaspar Correa; Accompanied by Original Documents
ISBN: 9781108011372 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Vasco de Gama (c. 1460 1524) was a Portuguese explorer who commanded the first European expedition to sail directly to India. He was later appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India in 1524....
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first se...
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The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam
ISBN: 9781108024716 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anna, Lady Brassey (1839 1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Anna Brassey's description of these travels led to her becoming a best-selling author. In 1886 1887 the Brasseys sailed to India, Borneo and Australia, but sadly Annie died of malaria during the journey. Her account of the voyage was published in 1889 with a memoir by her husband. Her experiences are vividly described...
Anna, Lady Brassey (1839 1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her...
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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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From Cyprus to Zanzibar by the Egyptian Delta: The Adventures of a Journalist in the Isle of Love, the Home of Miracles, and the Land of Cloves
ISBN: 9781108046015 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Vizetelly (1847 1903) was the son of the publisher Henry Vizetelly and a perceptive war correspondent. He began his career for the Daily News and New York Times, covering the Franco-Prussian War, where he narrowly escaped being shot as a spy. This work, published in 1901, recounts the next period of his career, with vivid descriptions of people and places. In 1878, Cyprus was ceded to Britain by Turkey, and Vizetelly, then in Athens, was sent to report on the Island, where he remained for four years. In 1882, he moved to Egypt, where Arab unrest led to the massacre of Europeans in...
Edward Vizetelly (1847 1903) was the son of the publisher Henry Vizetelly and a perceptive war correspondent. He began his career for the Daily News a...
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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia
ISBN: 9781108042116 / Angielski / Miękka / 566 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. He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum. This illustrated two-volume work, published in 1829 and reprinted here from its second...
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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Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of Travels in the Years 1838 and 1852
ISBN: 9781108079884 / Angielski / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American philologist Edward Robinson (1794 1863) is considered a founding figure in the field of biblical geography and archaeology. In 1838 he explored Palestine with Eli Smith (1801 57), a Yale graduate and Protestant missionary, and co-author of Missionary Researches in Armenia (also reissued in this series). Smith had settled in Beirut and was proficient in Arabic. The authors succeeded in identifying many biblical locations, and the original edition of their book, structured as a travel journal, was published in 1841. It was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society the...
American philologist Edward Robinson (1794 1863) is considered a founding figure in the field of biblical geography and archaeology. In 1838 he explor...
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From Pekin to Calais by Land
ISBN: 9781108084635 / Angielski / Miękka / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1889 book describes an unusual overland journey from Beijing to Calais, undertaken in 1887 by Harry de Windt (1856 1933), an explorer and travel writer, who later went from Paris to New York, also (mostly) by land. From a military family, he was the brother-in-law and aide-de-camp of Charles Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak, but his official duties left him with plenty of time for eye-catching journeys like this one. His only guidebook was John Bell's 1763 account of travelling from St Petersburg to Beijing across Siberia, but with advice on the route from a Russian embassy official, de...
This 1889 book describes an unusual overland journey from Beijing to Calais, undertaken in 1887 by Harry de Windt (1856 1933), an explorer and travel ...
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Nepal, die Berge und ich. Wanderungen, Trekkingtouren und eine neue Heimat
ISBN: 9783656867319 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nepal, Heimat der hochsten Gebirgsketten der Welt, ist ein Anziehungspunkt fur Bergsteiger und Abenteurer. Auch die Bloggerin Ines Owald-Rai zog das Land der Yaks und Yetis in seinen Bann. Immer wieder kehrte sie dorthin zuruck und wagte sich bis hinauf in eisige Hohen - aus Liebe zu Nepal, seinen majestatischen Bergen und Gletschern und einem Mann. Dieses Buch vereint vier ganz personliche Reiseberichte durch ein vielseitiges Land und erzahlt von abenteuerlichen Touren, mentalen Herausforderungen und korperlichen Strapazen. Dabei gibt die Autorin einen Einblick in den einzigartigen Kulturmix...
Nepal, Heimat der hochsten Gebirgsketten der Welt, ist ein Anziehungspunkt fur Bergsteiger und Abenteurer. Auch die Bloggerin Ines Owald-Rai zog das L...
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374,76 |
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Meliponiculture & Beyond in The Philippines
ISBN: 9781913811143 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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383,15 |
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Persia and the Persian Question
ISBN: 9781108080842 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following his election to Parliament, George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) embarked on extensive travels and research in Asia, spending several months in Persia in 1889-90. Later viceroy of India, Curzon believed that growing Russian influence in Asia threatened Britain's interests, and that Persia was an important buffer state. Highly regarded upon publication in 1892, this illustrated two-volume work is a mix of history, geography, travel narrative, and social and political analysis. Intended to educate readers at home as to Persia's strategic significance, the work reflects its author's...
Following his election to Parliament, George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) embarked on extensive travels and research in Asia, spending several months ...
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384,21 |
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Backpacker unterwegs: Mit dem Pferd durch die Mongolei und mit dem Motorrad durch Russland nach Wuppertal
ISBN: 9783656378235 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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