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The Hospital at the End of the World
ISBN: 9781935514282 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are 2,600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as "Mission Hospitals" - far off the beaten path, providing basic medical service to the poorest people of the world. The Hospital at the End of the World tells the story of a nurse from the USA and his first experience as a teaching nurse in Nepal.
Joe Niemczura brings to life the day-to-day realities of life in a rural teaching hospital, literally at the "end of the road." The harsh realities of a lack of modern medical equipment when mixed with the humanness of endurances demonstrates that above all,... There are 2,600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as "Mission Hospitals" - far off the beaten path, providing basi...
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Where There's a Will There's a Way
ISBN: 9781438967899 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Travels in the Island of Cyprus: With Contemporary Accounts of the Sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta
ISBN: 9781108004329 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Abbe Giovanni Mariti wrote an account of the condition of Cyprus in 1769, almost 100 years after the final conquest of the island by the Ottoman Turks. Mariti travelled widely around the island in the seven years during which he served there as a consular official, and as well as recounting his own visits to towns, villages and monasteries, he describes contemporary events such as the outbreak of plague in 1760 and the failed insurrection against the Turks in 1764. This English translation, first published in 1895, also provides contemporary eyewitness accounts of the sieges of Nicosia...
The Abbe Giovanni Mariti wrote an account of the condition of Cyprus in 1769, almost 100 years after the final conquest of the island by the Ottoman T...
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This Is China: A Guidebook for Teachers, Backpackers and Other Lunatics
ISBN: 9780557081189 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Is China is the expert guide for anyone thinking about becoming a foreign teacher in China. This book gives you tailor-made advice on what to do before you go - where to find a job, how to get a Z visa and not an L visa, and how to pare down your luggage without losing the essentials. TIC shows you how to navigate daily life in China, with tips on deciphering travel tickets and menus, and advice on using phones, computers and the postal system. Want to avoid finding a basket of chickens on your train seat, dont know the difference between mianzi and kuaizi or confused by any of the...
This Is China is the expert guide for anyone thinking about becoming a foreign teacher in China. This book gives you tailor-made advice on what to do ...
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Through Persia on a Side-Saddle
ISBN: 9781593335588 / Angielski / Twarda / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The written travelogue of Ella Sykes' historic first journey across central Asia, this book has been considered a classic of women's studies as well as a historic travel account. Detailing the impressions of Sykes while traveling with her diplomat brother through central Asia in the nineteenth century, this illustrated volume has a wide appeal to those interested in Iran as it used to be.
The written travelogue of Ella Sykes' historic first journey across central Asia, this book has been considered a classic of women's studies as well a...
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665,65 |
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Bingley to Borneo: Memoirs of a Vice Consul
ISBN: 9781426903113 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book describes the author's early years and his gradual descent to the bottom of the job market which encouraged him to join the Royal Navy to try to improve his career prospects. It covers his time as Vice Consul at the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) between 1991 and 1994 and describes some of the interesting Consular and Visa cases which he had to deal with. It also describes his love affair with the daughter of a Headhunter's daughter and his visits to her Longhouse deep in the interior of East Malaysia on the island of Borneo close to the Indonesian border.
The book describes the author's early years and his gradual descent to the bottom of the job market which encouraged him to join the Royal Navy to try...
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63,89 |
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
ISBN: 9780393338607 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the...
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It h...
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To live or to perish forever: Two tumultuous years in Pakistan
ISBN: 9780805091496 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A fascinating account of Schmidle's] years in Pakistan . . . The story of two Pakistans the author discovered: one beautiful and friendly, the other frightening and deadly."--Booklist Nicholas Schmidle beat the Pakistani army into Taliban country. In October 2007, just weeks before thousands of troops, backed by helicopters and artillery fire, marched into the Swat valley to battle the gang of Talibs who had taken over the region, Schmidle rode into the town of Mingora on a public bus. He drove through Taliban-manned checkpoints and took a zipline into a militant... "A fascinating account of Schmidle's] years in Pakistan . . . The story of two Pakistans the author discovered: one beautiful and friendly, the... |
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Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the
ISBN: 9780061708718 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I've read."
--Boston Globe Larry's Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose's wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order bride, and stop a hit-man from killing their uncle. An O. Henry Prize winner, a two-time recipient of PEN Fiction Awards, and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow, Rose has written "a surprisingly fun, and moving, book with resonance" (Chicago Tribune). "One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I've read."
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Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey Into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War
ISBN: 9781593762759 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Armed with a map, a motorcycle, an infectious sense of humor, and a dim understanding of Sri Lanka's war, author, artist, and adventurer Mark Stephen Meadows arrives in the country intending to have, as it were, afternoon tea with terrorists. Figuring that the first step to solving a problem is understanding it, he journeys north into the war zone, interviewing terrorists, generals, and heroin dealers along the way.
He discovers an island of beauty and abundance ground down by three decades of war. As he travels north through Colombo, Kandy, and the damaged city of Jaffna, Meadows gives... Armed with a map, a motorcycle, an infectious sense of humor, and a dim understanding of Sri Lanka's war, author, artist, and adventurer Mark Stephen ...
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Schools and Politics: The Kaum Muda Movement in West Sumatra (1927-1933)
ISBN: 9786028397506 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The driving force of Minangkabau history arises from the struggle to build a balanced social order on a convergence of seemingly contradictory social and cultural aspects. From the time when Islam was conceived as a pillar of the Minangkabau world, the history of Minangkabau has been dominated by an effort to attain an acceptable equilibrium between the doctrine of a universal religion and the wisdom and ideals of the pre-existing pillar, the indigenous element or adat. The idea that Islam is an inseparable part of Minangkabau has generated constant internal struggle. A traditional notion...
The driving force of Minangkabau history arises from the struggle to build a balanced social order on a convergence of seemingly contradictory social ...
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170,52 |
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Studies in Oriental Social Life
ISBN: 9781593335960 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trumbull's tome was among the first to explore how looking at the Bible from the perspective of those in Palestine might influence the outlook of western readers. In this volume Trumbull examines the social customs, religious practices, and basic concepts of those living in nineteenth-century Palestine to demonstrate how they bear upon modern understandings of the Bible.
Trumbull's tome was among the first to explore how looking at the Bible from the perspective of those in Palestine might influence the outlook of west...
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The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Mngke, 12531255
ISBN: 9780872209817 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253 55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan Mongke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again. . . . William was interested in all that he saw. . . . His account is particularly vivid because he related to the individual people he met. This is the first annotated translation to be made from the definitive Latin text published by A. Van den Wyngaert in 1929, and Peter Jackson and David Morgan are to be congratulated on producing an exemplary edition. The historical... "William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253 55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to t... |
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... und mit dem Baikal-Express wieder zurück: Begegnungen am Rand einer Reise durch die Sowjetunion 1989
ISBN: 9783833440755 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Straight from the Camels Mouth (No Spit): An Expats Diary of Dubai
ISBN: 9781449014322 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So why did I write this book? After moving from Australia to Dubai in 2007, I realised that life as we knew it was going to be very different. Weekly I would sit in front of my laptop emailing family and friends in England and Australia and keeping them up to date with what was happening. The emails were a way for me to off-load some of the frustrating and stressful situations we found ourselves in, and also share some of the funny, shocking and unbelievable happenings too. The first year passed by, the emails kept flowing, the recipients kept saying; "Hey this is great, you should write a...
So why did I write this book? After moving from Australia to Dubai in 2007, I realised that life as we knew it was going to be very different. Weekly ...
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The Travels of Ludovico Di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopa, A.D. 1503 to 1508: Translated fro
ISBN: 9781108010764 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 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. This 1863 volume contains a Victorian translation of Ludovico di Varthema's account of his travels, originally published in 1510, and translated into many European languages within a few...
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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Travels to Tana and Persia, and a Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries
ISBN: 9781108010818 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains six narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
This volume contains six narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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307,32 |
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High Road To Tibet
ISBN: 9781445246147 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Dwyer travels through Asia's most interesting and wildest regions. Follow his adventures as he passes through the sunken gorges of the Yangtze river, drinks snake blood in Chengdu, gets smuggled into Tibet illegally, watches mysterious ceremonies in Buddhist temples, reaches Everest Base Camp, climbs amongst the awe-inspiring Himalayas, and watches the dead being burned by the banks of the Ganges.
John Dwyer travels through Asia's most interesting and wildest regions. Follow his adventures as he passes through the sunken gorges of the Yangtze ri...
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Perlen der Seidenstraße: Mit der Eisenbahn auf alten Karawanenwegen
ISBN: 9783837021561 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Landgraf reiste mit der Eisenbahn durch die Lnder Kasachstan, Usbekistan und Turkmenistan im Herzen Zentralasiens. Sein Fazit: Die Seidenstrae lebt. Ihr Mythos wird von den Vlkern Zentralasiens mit neuem Leben durchdrungen. In seinem Buch schildert der Autor die unvergleichliche Schnheit der alten Handelsstdte Samarkand und Buchara, das quirlige Leben in den Basaren und die kulturellen Traditionen der vielfltigen Volksgruppen. Beeindruckt erzhlt er von seinen Beobachtungen in den weitlufigen Steppen und Wsten, dem Besuch der Oasenstadt Chiwa und dem bewegenden Schicksal der Ruinen von...
Peter Landgraf reiste mit der Eisenbahn durch die Lnder Kasachstan, Usbekistan und Turkmenistan im Herzen Zentralasiens. Sein Fazit: Die Seidenstrae l...
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Die Simple Kunst des Reisens 1: Thailand und Kambodscha
ISBN: 9783837072266 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Die simple Kunst des Reisens" hat den Zweck, Menschen an das Reisen auf eigene Faust heranzufhren. Es werden Reisen zu nicht vllig alltglichen Zielen beschrieben, dabei gilt die Einschrnkung, dass alles mit einem regulren Jahresurlaub und einem Etat zwischen 1200 und 2000 Euro pro Kopf zu realisieren sein sollte. Im ersten Teil landen wir in Bangkok, besuchen eine Insel im Chang-Archipel, in Ostthailnd, nahe der kambodschanischen Grenze und erkunden schliesslich die Tempel von Angkor und das Herz des Khmer-Reichs.
"Die simple Kunst des Reisens" hat den Zweck, Menschen an das Reisen auf eigene Faust heranzufhren. Es werden Reisen zu nicht vllig alltglichen Zielen...
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