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Lonely Planet Jordan
ISBN: 9781838698171 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,50 zł |
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An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet
ISBN: 9781805478416 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,90 zł |
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Squat Toilets and Chopsticks: Experiencing Life Through Travel
ISBN: 9781528953320 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
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Event Tourism in Asian Countries: Challenges and Prospects
ISBN: 9781774639481 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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431,30 zł |
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
ISBN: 9780060596552 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the... An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fift... |
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50,99 zł |
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Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780253218216 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." -Simon Gikandi Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time and culture. This original and significant book will interest armchair... ..". brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." -Sim... |
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109,36 zł |
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The Travels of Marco Polo
ISBN: 9780375758188 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marco Polo's account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recorded customs, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, and much more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilous deserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvels than the Travels.
This edition,... Marco Polo's account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains t...
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99,98 zł |
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The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia: Everything You Need to Know for Business and Travel Success
ISBN: 9780471369493 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everything You Need to Know for Business and Travel Success
The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia * Country to country protocols and customs * International business musts and faux pas * Dining, hosting, gift giving, and more * Cross-cultural exploration The Global Etiquette Series Did you know: * In Indonesia, you should always present your business card with both hands? * You might offend your Japanese hosts by refilling your own teacupat dinner or forgetting to refill theirs? In today s high-stakes,... Everything You Need to Know for Business and Travel Success
The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia * Country to country protocols and c... |
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103,94 zł |
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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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388,41 zł |
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The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
ISBN: 9780520249394 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and the Portuguese colonies of western India. His journal, now translated into English for the first time, is the most important new European travel account of western Asia to be published in the past hundred years. It opens an extraordinary perspective on the Near East and India at a time when few Europeans traveled to these lands. Keenly...
In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That Augus...
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164,12 zł |
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La Ruta de Familia de Hayburg en Europa y Asia: Con Esposa: Volume One
ISBN: 9780595364572 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever wanted to tour the home of the Beatles, visit 1,000-year-old castles, or negotiate European train travel? If so, then "La Ruta de Familia de Hayburg en Europa y Asia: Con Esposa" is just the guidebook you need to lead you on the overseas travel adventure of a lifetime. Even if you don't plan such an odyssey, you will identify with the inevitable tribulations that can arise within a close-knit family.
Follow along and learn as author Juanito Hayburg shares the intricate details in volume one of his family's two-month vacation through Europe and Northern Asia. Hayburg... Have you ever wanted to tour the home of the Beatles, visit 1,000-year-old castles, or negotiate European train travel? If so, then "La Ruta de Famili...
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56,29 zł |
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La Familia Hayburg: On the Opposite Side of the World: Volume Two
ISBN: 9780595427925 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover how one family learns important life lessons and the necessary coping skills to deal with the constantly changing circumstances that accompany their desire to travel the world. For over thirty years, Juanito Hayburg has traveled the world. In 2004, he and his family went on a two month odyssey to such far-away locations as Amsterdam, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Xi'an, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Flam, Bergen, Edinburgh, John O' Groats, and Dublin, and a multitude of other interesting places. Through their well-documented experiences that include applicable Web... Discover how one family learns important life lessons and the necessary coping skills to deal with the constantly changing circumstances that accom... |
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104,11 zł |
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Indo-China
ISBN: 9780710310279 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prepared by the British Naval Intelligence Division of the Admiralty during World War II and released in 1943, this handbook is now an important geographical and historical reference work, documenting the region's environment and natural resources as they were before the developments of recent decades, and describing traditional culture, infrastructure, administration and the extent of foreign influence as it then was. It covers the areas of the present-day countries of Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Unrivalled in the scope and the quality of information current at the time of first publication,...
Prepared by the British Naval Intelligence Division of the Admiralty during World War II and released in 1943, this handbook is now an important geogr...
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452,09 zł |
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Gleanings in Buddha-Fields
ISBN: 9780710311221 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third book of Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese period, Gleanings in Buddha-Fields is a volume of philosophical essays and sketches inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Through a series of loosely connected essays, the author offers readers a wealth of insights into Japanese life, art and religion. When the book was first published in 1897, it attracted the attention of The New York Times: It is only Mr. Hearn who has made us understand something of the Japanese way of looking at life and things, something of that religion which is the very soul and substance of Japanese existence, thought, and...
The third book of Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese period, Gleanings in Buddha-Fields is a volume of philosophical essays and sketches inspired by the teachi...
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753,56 zł |
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Way of the Bull
ISBN: 9780913590089 / Angielski / Twarda / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the truth of self Leo Buscaglia has discovered on two trips to Asia by traveling the -way of the bull, - as well as describing the people and physical locales of Southeast Asia prior to the Vietnam War. The meaning of the title originated in the 12th century Zen book, 10 Bulls by Chinese Zen master Kakuan. In this book the bull represents life, energy, truth and action. -The way- concerns the possible step one man might take to gain insight, find oneself and discover one's true nature. Leo reminds us, however, that each person must find that path individually in order for it...
This book reveals the truth of self Leo Buscaglia has discovered on two trips to Asia by traveling the -way of the bull, - as well as describing the p...
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202,06 zł |
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Confucianism and Modern China
ISBN: 9780968045947 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In these lectures I will endeavour to justify the faith that is in me and to explain the grounds on which I base my belief that Confucianism is still a living force among the Chinese people and has a message of great value for the China of the present and future and provide and answer to the question "What is Confucianism? If we wish to form an adequate idea of Confucianism we must make an effort to look at it from within, and to approximate as closely as possible to the standpoint of those who are themselves among the loyal guardians of the great Confucian heritage." -Reginald Fleming...
"In these lectures I will endeavour to justify the faith that is in me and to explain the grounds on which I base my belief that Confucianism is still...
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99,76 zł |
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Naive & Abroad: Pakistan: Travel in a Land of Mullahs
ISBN: 9780595467112 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner." Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News "Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, & Chaucer rolled into one." Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist "Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way." Sue Kenney, Canadian Author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim "I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet." Pieter, The Netherlands "I have been reading with... Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind ... |
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73,68 zł |
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In Search of Time Wasted: Peregrinations from Seil Island
ISBN: 9781434344434 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lure of India pervades this book, as do the charms of Seil Island and Scotland's Western Seaboard. There are tales of modest adventure and mild disipation, but the author also makes an attempt to examine the evolution of those seemingly incomparable regions during the eventful half century he has known them. The amazing renaissance of India is compared with efforts in both India and Britain to address development, poverty and exclusion. The upper middle-class war babies of Britain are described as ultimate legatees of the most fortunate empire in the modern world. Preceding generations...
The lure of India pervades this book, as do the charms of Seil Island and Scotland's Western Seaboard. There are tales of modest adventure and mild di...
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80,13 zł |
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Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539 - 1542)
ISBN: 9780906094433 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English translation with introduction and notes of the account by the Venetian Michele Membre of a visit to the Safavid court, written in the 16th century.
English translation with introduction and notes of the account by the Venetian Michele Membre of a visit to the Safavid court, written in the 16th cen...
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181,89 zł |
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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."
--Boston Globe Larry's Kidney is Daniel As... |
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86,90 zł |
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