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Ich wollte nie nach Nepal: Reisebericht
ISBN: 9783837081022 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Auf den Spuren von Hillary und Messner. Was einem alles passieren kann, wenn man mit Mann, Tochter, Cousin, zwei Bekannten und einer Hand voll fremder Menschen unterwegs in Richtung Basislager am Mount Everest ist, das schildert die Autorin unverblmt und offen in ihrem Reisetagebuch. Und da sorgen nicht nur der unangenehme Geruch nach Yak-Mist und die hygienischen Bedingungen auf der Wanderung fr prgende Eindrcke, sondern auch die Witterungsbedingungen, die Krankheiten und die Eigenheiten der fremden Menschen, mit denen man unter schwierigsten Bedingungen auf engstem Raum zusammen sein muss,...
Auf den Spuren von Hillary und Messner. Was einem alles passieren kann, wenn man mit Mann, Tochter, Cousin, zwei Bekannten und einer Hand voll fremder...
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Travels in Arabia Deserta
ISBN: 9781108009461 / Angielski / Miękka / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers of the Indian colonial government undertook surveys of the areas remote from the major pilgrimage routes. Charles Doughty (1843 1926) spent two years among various nomad tribes and wrote in 1888 what would be the first comprehensive Western work on the geography of Arabia, in an attempt, as he says in the preface, to 'set forth faithfully some parcel of the soil of Arabia smelling of samn and camels'. His classic and justly famous account is a...
Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers o...
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Travels Through Kazakhstan: After the Fall of the Soviet Empire
ISBN: 9781847486950 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A vibrant account, enthralling from start to finish. (La Croix, Paris); Investigative journalism with the talent of a storyteller. (Elle, Paris); The famous Geneva-based reporter has returned with a mountain of memories and sketches of one engaging character after another. (Tribune de Geneve, Geneva). This excellent piece of travel writing takes us on a bitter-sweet tour of Kazakhstan, providing us with a trove of fascinating stories about this former Soviet Socialist Republic's quest for identity since its independence in 1991. This troubled nation is the ninth largest in the world and yet...
A vibrant account, enthralling from start to finish. (La Croix, Paris); Investigative journalism with the talent of a storyteller. (Elle, Paris); The ...
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Three Days in the Hermit Kingdom: An American Visits North Korea
ISBN: 9780786448982 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To most of the world, North Korea remains a secretive and mysterious nation, one that has tightly controlled the outflow of information in order to groom its public image. This book chronicles a rare, regime-sanctioned excursion by a North American into the heart of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. What is revealed is often what's expected, such as the adoration of leaders, excursions to national monuments, and exposure to propaganda relating to self-sufficiency. But as a Korean speaker, the author gathered a lot more information than the scripted, regime-approved English narration...
To most of the world, North Korea remains a secretive and mysterious nation, one that has tightly controlled the outflow of information in order to gr...
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Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer's Ride Beyond the Great Wall of China
ISBN: 9781108014267 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1863, this is the enchanting account of the travels of George Fleming (1833 1901) in the far north of China. Fleming began his epic journey in Tien-tsin, where he was stationed as an army doctor at a British military garrison; there he was granted special permission to travel almost 700 miles as far as Moukden and to Manchu Tartary, the birth place of the Manchu dynasty. Fleming's route took him through many regions that had been inaccessible to western travellers until the Treaty of Tien-tsin (1858 1859). His vivid account describes the people and customs he met; the...
First published in 1863, this is the enchanting account of the travels of George Fleming (1833 1901) in the far north of China. Fleming began his epic...
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Our Pilgrimage To Tibet: Family Trip To See The Golden Child
ISBN: 9781440438523 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when a Western businessman asks his dharma teacher a simple question and is told that to get the answer to that question he is to go to Tibet that very summer and find the His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, the high lama on which the movie -The Golden Child- was based? What if this businessman and his wife have never babysat their kids, so the whole family must go to Tibet. Here is the story of the where they find the Golden Child, and make a pilgrimage to some of Tibet's most sacred places, its highest caves, meeting along the way all kinds of adventures and sacred beings. It...
What happens when a Western businessman asks his dharma teacher a simple question and is told that to get the answer to that question he is to go to T...
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Travels of Pietro Della Valle in India: From the Old English Translation of 1664
ISBN: 9781108013543 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These lively letters from an educated Italian traveller to seventeenth-century India, published in 1892, are an important historical source.
These lively letters from an educated Italian traveller to seventeenth-century India, published in 1892, are an important historical source.
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Travels of Pietro Della Valle in India: From the Old English Translation of 1664
ISBN: 9781108014939 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These lively letters from an educated Italian traveller to seventeenth-century India, published in 1892, are an important historical source.
These lively letters from an educated Italian traveller to seventeenth-century India, published in 1892, are an important historical source.
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250,03 |
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Buddhist Architecture
ISBN: 9780984404308 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume thoroughly examines the origins and principle types of Buddhist architecture in Asia primarily between the third-century BCE to 12th-century CE with an emphasis on India. It aims to construct shared architectural traits and patterns along with the derivative relationships between Indian and Asian Buddhist monuments.
The volume thoroughly examines the origins and principle types of Buddhist architecture in Asia primarily between the third-century BCE to 12th-centur...
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The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory
ISBN: 9781108013895 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, first published in 1899, contains the account by the redoubtable Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop) of a journey through central China in 1896 1897. The volume focuses on her travels though the province of Szechuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory. Many of the areas she explored and carefully described were almost unknown to European visitors and had not been mentioned in any earlier English publications. The volume is based on journal letters and the diary written during her journey, and it is generously illustrated with photographs and Chinese...
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, first published in 1899, contains the account by the redoubtable Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop) of a journey thro...
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411,51 |
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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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Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China After the Wreck of the Kite
ISBN: 9781108013802 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The account of merchant sailor John Lee Scott about his shipwreck and imprisonment in China during the First Opium War.
The account of merchant sailor John Lee Scott about his shipwreck and imprisonment in China during the First Opium War.
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A Winter in North China
ISBN: 9781108013826 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1892, this fascinating book recounts a journey through China taken by two clergymen in the winter of 1890.
Published in 1892, this fascinating book recounts a journey through China taken by two clergymen in the winter of 1890.
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My Diary in a Chinese Farm
ISBN: 9781108013833 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1894,Mrs Little's account of her stay at a farmhouse is an invaluable source for nineteenth-century Chinese life.
Published in 1894,Mrs Little's account of her stay at a farmhouse is an invaluable source for nineteenth-century Chinese life.
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Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
ISBN: 9781108014274 / Angielski / Miękka / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1899, Little's book provides a vivid account of life in China at the end of the nineteenth century.
Published in 1899, Little's book provides a vivid account of life in China at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Notes of a Journey from Hankow to Ta-Li Fu
ISBN: 9781108015196 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margary's record of his final, groundbreaking trip within south-central China offers an insight into contemporary travel in that country.
Margary's record of his final, groundbreaking trip within south-central China offers an insight into contemporary travel in that country.
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Imagined Mobility: Migration and Transnationalism Among Indian Students in Australia
ISBN: 9781843318934 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its close analysis of the phenomenon of the migration of Indian students to Australia, this book critically approaches the entanglement of the education industry with migration opportunities, and looks into the goals and aspirations of the Indian middle class. It discusses the overlaps of studies on migration and transnationalism, and raises questions on skilled migration. With its close analysis of the phenomenon of the migration of Indian students to Australia, this book critically approaches the entanglement of the... |
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Chai Chai: Travels to Places Where You Stop but Never Get off
ISBN: 9789380032863 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bishwanath Ghosh had alighted from his train at Itarsi station to stretch his legs and grab a glass of tea before he resumed his journey.
Bishwanath Ghosh had alighted from his train at Itarsi station to stretch his legs and grab a glass of tea before he resumed his journey.
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The Duab of Turkestan: A Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels
ISBN: 9781108010665 / Angielski / Miękka / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873 1965) was a German explorer and mountaineer who visited and explored central Asia five times between 1894 and 1906. This book provides an account of his travels in the area he calls Turkestan, which incorporates modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and south-west Kazakhstan, and was first published in 1913. The region, which contains the ancient cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, had not been previously described in so much detail by a western European traveller. Rickmers includes accounts of both these historic cities as well as describing the social life of the indigenous...
W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873 1965) was a German explorer and mountaineer who visited and explored central Asia five times between 1894 and 1906. This boo...
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A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco Da Gama, 1497-1499
ISBN: 9781108012966 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 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 da Gama (c. 1460 1524) was a Portuguese explorer who commanded the first European expedition to sail directly to India. This voyage and his combination of force and diplomacy while...
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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