Evliyā Çelebī in Medina: The Relevant Sections of the Seyāhatnāme
ISBN: 9789004211353 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evliyā Celebī, the famous Ottoman traveler of the seventeenth century, visited many countries under the sovereignity of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa, including the Mecca and Medina. This book offers a critical edition of the section from Evliyā's Travels about Medina. It includes first-hand information on the administrative, historical, cultural, traditional and etymological structure of the city, and on everyday life in Medina during the seventeenth century. Evliyā Celebī provides the readers with valuable information not only on the city itself, but...
Evliyā Celebī, the famous Ottoman traveler of the seventeenth century, visited many countries under the sovereignity of the Ottoman Empire i...
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611,91 zł |
Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel
ISBN: 9781108046428 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lady Isabel Burton (1831 96) was a distinguished nineteenth-century traveller, writer and critic. She and her husband Richard explored the Middle East, India, Africa and South America extensively during his diplomatic placements and for their own pleasure. Individually and collaboratively they produced several exquisitely detailed travelogues, recording custom, culture, politics and geography. This account of their travels, first published in 1879, details the Burtons' leisurely route to India through Europe before crossing the Mediterranean and continuing south through Egypt and the Arabian...
Lady Isabel Burton (1831 96) was a distinguished nineteenth-century traveller, writer and critic. She and her husband Richard explored the Middle East...
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387,05 zł |
Marco Polo's Book
ISBN: 9780860783619 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marco Polo and his book may seem to have been well served by scholars, yet the majority have been concerned to write about his travels in Asia, what he did or did not see, and how useful he is as a source on the East. John Critchleya s subject, on the other hand, is the text of Poloa s book itself and the political and ideological context a the crusades, the Mongol missions, the French presence in Italy a in which it was put together by its author(s), and read by its audience. The homogeneity of the a originala Franco-Italian text and the accepted relationship between this text and the Latin...
Marco Polo and his book may seem to have been well served by scholars, yet the majority have been concerned to write about his travels in Asia, what h...
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438,30 zł |
A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia / Ibn Al-Mujawir's Tarikh Al-Mustabsir: Ibn Al-Mujāwir's Tārīkh Al-Mustabṣir
ISBN: 9780904180916 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran. Ibn al-Mujawir was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea coastal plain, Tihamah,...
This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. The text i...
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Mandeville's Medieval Audiences: A Study on the Reception of the Book of Sir John Mandeville (1371-1550)
ISBN: 9780754608462 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The so-called travels of Sir John Mandeville to the Holy Land, India and Cathay were immensely popular throughout Europe during the late medieval period and were translated into nine different languages. This is a detailed study of the audiences of Mandeville's Book, with particular emphasis on its reception in England and France from the time the Book appeared in the 1350s to the mid-16th century. The multiple ways in which audiences interpreted the work, depending on wider social and cultural contexts, are analysed thematically, under the headings of pilgrimage, geography, romance, history...
The so-called travels of Sir John Mandeville to the Holy Land, India and Cathay were immensely popular throughout Europe during the late medieval peri...
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185,60 zł |
Northern Afghanistan
ISBN: 9781904303091 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Joint Afghan Boundary Commission - an Anglo-Russian venture whose task it was to delineate the frontier between Northern Afghanistan and Russia's Central Asian territories, scientifically and permanently, thus replacing the 1873 line drawn from vague and inaccurate maps - was to rendezvous at Sarakhs, on the modern border of Iran and Turkmenistan, in October 1884. Presented as a series of letters written at different times from the commission, and published in connected form, Yate's Northern Afghanistan describes in detail the year-long progress of the commission. Included are valuable...
The Joint Afghan Boundary Commission - an Anglo-Russian venture whose task it was to delineate the frontier between Northern Afghanistan and Russia's ...
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135,66 zł |
New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West: Narushima Ryuhoku Reports from Home and Abroad
ISBN: 9781933947518 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book features complete annotated translations of Narushima Ryuhoku's two most widely read and influential texts, both of which showcase the innovative and experimental use of Chinese-language discourse taking place in Japan during the nineteenth century. Focused on one of the capital city's celebrated geisha districts, the satirical New Chronicles of Yanagibashi serves as both a documentary record of changing customs during the tumultuous 1850s-70s and an amusingly nuanced social critique. Banned multiple times, the work nevertheless became a favorite of the Meiji reading public. This...
This book features complete annotated translations of Narushima Ryuhoku's two most widely read and influential texts, both of which showcase the innov...
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123,72 zł |
Alone with the Hairy Ainu: Or, 3800 Miles on a Pack Saddle in Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands
ISBN: 9781108049412 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A. H. Savage Landor (1867 1925), the grandson of the author Walter Savage Landor (1775 1864), was born and educated in Florence. He abandoned his painting studies in Paris to travel around the world, and visited Asia, the Middle East and South America, supporting himself as he went by painting portraits of people he encountered. Landor became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892, and a Member of the Royal Institution in 1897. This volume, first published in 1893, deals with his adventurous experiences among the indigenous Ainu, the 'hairy men' who lived in the northern 'home...
A. H. Savage Landor (1867 1925), the grandson of the author Walter Savage Landor (1775 1864), was born and educated in Florence. He abandoned his pain...
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228,69 zł |
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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A Seaman's Narrative of His Adventures During a Captivity Among Chinese Pirates on the Coast of Cochin-China: And Afterwards During a Journey on Foot
ISBN: 9781108045551 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the time of the Second Opium War between Britain and China (1856 60), sailor Edward Brown (about whom little is known) was discharged from a trading vessel in Hong Kong. He was then offered the opportunity to captain a Chinese-crewed ship bound for Wai-how on the west coast, though he was warned that it was a risky enterprise because of the ongoing hostilities. Soon his ship was chased by Chinese pirates and Brown was taken captive for many months in Cochin-China (southern Vietnam). Published in 1861, this engaging account of his captivity, attempts at escape, and eventual return to...
During the time of the Second Opium War between Britain and China (1856 60), sailor Edward Brown (about whom little is known) was discharged from a tr...
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258,02 zł |
The Treaty Ports of China and Japan: A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao
ISBN: 9781108045902 / Angielski / Miękka / 866 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As trade between the East and the West grew in the mid-nineteenth century, increasing numbers of Westerners travelled to China and Japan, and in 1867 this guide to the key port cities such as Hong Kong and Nagasaki was published in both Hong Kong and London. Its editor, Nicholas Belfield Dennys (?1813 99) claimed it was the first such comprehensive handbook printed for public distribution. Intended for visitors and new residents, the guide was originally typeset in China, allowing place names and other words to be printed in Chinese characters. The specially commissioned maps were also...
As trade between the East and the West grew in the mid-nineteenth century, increasing numbers of Westerners travelled to China and Japan, and in 1867 ...
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Narrative of a Journey Into Persia, in the Suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy, in the Year 1817
ISBN: 9781108045391 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moritz von Kotzebue (1789 1861), son of the German dramatist and an experienced seaman and soldier, who had faced Bonaparte's troops on the battlefield, travelled to the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1772 1834), the king of Persia, with a Russian embassy in 1817. His account of the journey was published in German in 1819, and an English translation was published in the same year, claiming to offer a different perspective from the ordinary run of British writings on Persia. Covering the journey from St Petersburg through the Caucasus and down to Soltaniyeh, where the embassy meets the Shah,...
Moritz von Kotzebue (1789 1861), son of the German dramatist and an experienced seaman and soldier, who had faced Bonaparte's troops on the battlefiel...
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Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-Shoes: A Journal of Siberian Travel and Explorations Made in the Years 1865, 1866 and 1867
ISBN: 9781108049740 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Russo-American Telegraph Project of 1865 7 was truly monumental. Although plans to lay cable from San Francisco to Moscow via Alaska and Siberia were superseded by the laying of the sub-Atlantic cable, one of the benefits of the enterprise was the knowledge of the area gained by those engineers and explorers sent out to assess the task. Publication of their experiences and travels followed and one such work was this journal by Richard James Bush, first published in 1871 by Harper & Brothers, describing his adventures in Siberia between 1865 and 1867. Bush makes it clear that this is not a...
The Russo-American Telegraph Project of 1865 7 was truly monumental. Although plans to lay cable from San Francisco to Moscow via Alaska and Siberia w...
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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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Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician
ISBN: 9781108052085 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Lewis Meryon (1783 1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839), who left England in 1810 to travel to the Middle East. She eventually settled in Lebanon and by the time she died no longer had contact with any Europeans. Meryon's Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (also reissued in this series) recounted her journey during the first seven years he spent with her before returning to England to complete his medical training. Over the next twenty years, they remained in contact and he stayed with her on two more occasions before she...
Charles Lewis Meryon (1783 1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839), who left England i...
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Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician
ISBN: 9781108052092 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Lewis Meryon (1783 1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839), who left England in 1810 to travel to the Middle East. She eventually settled in Lebanon and by the time she died no longer had contact with any Europeans. Meryon's Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (also reissued in this series) recounted her journey during the first seven years he spent with her before returning to England to complete his medical training. Over the next twenty years, they remained in contact and he stayed with her on two more occasions before she...
Charles Lewis Meryon (1783 1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839), who left England i...
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Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician
ISBN: 9781108052108 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Lewis Meryon (1783 1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839), who left England in 1810 to travel to the Middle East. She eventually settled in Lebanon and by the time she died no longer had contact with any Europeans. Meryon's Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (also reissued in this series) recounted her journey during the first seven years he spent with her before returning to England to complete his medical training. Over the next twenty years, they remained in contact and he stayed with her on two more occasions before she...
Charles Lewis Meryon (1783 1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 1839), who left England i...
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Ich bin einfach losgegangen ...in das Reich der Mitte
ISBN: 9783837068481 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Buch berichtet die Abenteuer der Fahrt mit der transsibirischen Eisenbahn und schildert Begegnungen auf dem Weg in das Reich der Mitte.
Das Buch berichtet die Abenteuer der Fahrt mit der transsibirischen Eisenbahn und schildert Begegnungen auf dem Weg in das Reich der Mitte.
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Trans-Ost-Expedition - Die 4. Etappe: Kraft und Zauber der Taiga - Unterwegs auf sibirischer Erde
ISBN: 9783839176177 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Im Rahmen ihrer 30-jahrigen Expedition Die grosse Reise" sind Tanja und Denis Katzer fur ein mehrjahriges Abenteuer von Deutschland nach Burma (Myanmar) unterwegs: 25.000 km mit dem Fahrrad von Deutschland nach Osterreich, uber die Slowakei, Ungarn, Serbien, Rumanien, Moldawien, Transnistrien, Ukraine, Halbinsel Krim, Westrussland und Kasachstan bis nach Sibirien, auf Pferden zu den Rentiermenschen in der Mongolei, weiter mit dem Rad durch das Land Dschingis Khans, dann durch China und am Ende auf einem Elefanten durch Myanmar. Kurzlich setzten sie ihr grosses Radabenteuer in Sibirien fort:...
Im Rahmen ihrer 30-jahrigen Expedition Die grosse Reise" sind Tanja und Denis Katzer fur ein mehrjahriges Abenteuer von Deutschland nach Burma (Myanma...
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Trans-Ost-Expedition - Die 3. Etappe: Land des Windes - Mit dem Rad von Russland über Kasachstan nach Sibirien
ISBN: 9783837038934 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Im Rahmen ihrer 30-jahrigen Expedition Die grosse Reise" setzen Tanja und Denis Katzer ihr Radabenteuer fort. Ihre Erlebnisse sind tiefgehend, ergreifend und regen den Leser zum Nachdenken an. In ihrem neuesten Buch, das kurzweilig, spannend, einfuhlsam und interessant ist, erzahlen die Katzers uber ihre Radreise von Westrussland, durch die Weiten der kasachischen Steppen und Sudsibirien. Auf dieser Etappe der fur insgesamt funf Jahre geplanten Trans-Ost-Expedition uberquerten sie einsame Landesgrenzen. Verfallene Geisterdorfer standen im Gegensatz zur Milliarden teuren Fantasiestadt Astana,...
Im Rahmen ihrer 30-jahrigen Expedition Die grosse Reise" setzen Tanja und Denis Katzer ihr Radabenteuer fort. Ihre Erlebnisse sind tiefgehend, ergreif...
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184,76 zł |