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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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73,50 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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79,94 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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181,55 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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86,69 zł |
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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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121,20 zł |
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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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70,75 zł |
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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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99,70 zł |
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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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188,31 zł |
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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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467,11 zł |
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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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432,51 zł |
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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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663,26 zł |
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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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253,71 zł |
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Ithaka, Der Peloponnes Und Troja: Archaologische Forschungen
ISBN: 9781108016827 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where is Troy? For Heinrich Schliemann (1822 1890) the search for its exact location became a consuming passion. In 1869, when this book was first published, the existence of a real - as opposed to mythical - Troy was still disputed. The wealthy German businessman, linguist and speculator journeyed to Greece and Asia Minor in order to undertake excavations well before archaeology developed into a modern, scientific profession. This book describes his first expedition in 1868 to Corfu, Cephalonia, the Peloponnese and Ithaca. Schliemann was convinced that the mound of Hissarlik in Turkey was...
Where is Troy? For Heinrich Schliemann (1822 1890) the search for its exact location became a consuming passion. In 1869, when this book was first pub...
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219,11 zł |
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Mirabilia Descripta: The Wonders of the East
ISBN: 9781108010573 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume (1863) contains a fourteenth-century description of travels in Persia and India by Jordanus, a Dominican missionary.
This volume (1863) contains a fourteenth-century description of travels in Persia and India by Jordanus, a Dominican missionary.
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190,27 zł |
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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land
ISBN: 9780241950388 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1982 while still a schoolboy, Patrick French met the Dalai Lama. Ever since, he has been fascinated by Tibet's people, its history, and its recent plight. 'Tibet, Tibet' offers an exploration of one of the most beautiful, isolated, mysterious and misunderstood countries on earth.
In 1982 while still a schoolboy, Patrick French met the Dalai Lama. Ever since, he has been fascinated by Tibet's people, its history, and its recent ...
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75,98 zł |
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Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja
ISBN: 9783958010932 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Troja - Fakt oder Fiktion? Diese Frage trieb Heinrich Schliemann 1868 auf die abenteuerliche Suche nach der legendaren Stadt. Das vorliegende Werk ist eine Niederschrift seiner Expedition und bietet einen spannenden Einblick in die sagenumwobene Geschichte Griechenlands und die Anfange der Feldarchaologie. Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) war Kaufmann, Abenteurer und Archaologe. Angeregt von Homers Schriften fuhrte er mehrere Expeditionen nach Griechenland und Kleinasien durch und bewies den historischen Kern in den Epen des Philosophen. Schliemann gilt als Mitbegrunder der modernen...
Troja - Fakt oder Fiktion? Diese Frage trieb Heinrich Schliemann 1868 auf die abenteuerliche Suche nach der legendaren Stadt. Das vorliegende Werk ist...
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209,41 zł |
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Willow Pattern Walkabout
ISBN: 9789881866714 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed and inscrutable. Emerging from the writings of Kirwan Ward and the drawings of Paul Rigby is a picture of China at a key moment in its historystill feeding off the exhilaration of the creation of People s China in 1949 and full of optimism and blind idealism. A rich collection of insights and observations tinged with skepticism and good humor, this record offers a western perspective of China during Mao Tse-tung's leadership."
Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed an...
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92,23 zł |
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Blue Guide Turkey
ISBN: 9780713649994 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reprint version of the 3rd edition, 2001.
A reprint version of the 3rd edition, 2001.
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203,99 zł |
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Western Himalaya and Tibet: A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India, During the Years 1847-8
ISBN: 9781108046008 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explorer and naturalist Thomas Thomson (1817 78) led an intrepid life. He started his career as an assistant surgeon with the East India Company and soon became a curator of the Asiatic Society's museum in Bengal. He was sent to Afghanistan in 1840 during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and was captured but managed to escape as he was about to be sold as a slave. Undaunted by this misfortune, he accepted a perilous mission to define the boundary between Kashmir and Chinese Tibet in 1847. During his eighteen-month journey, Thomson explored the Kashmir territories and went as far north as the...
Explorer and naturalist Thomas Thomson (1817 78) led an intrepid life. He started his career as an assistant surgeon with the East India Company and s...
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340,23 zł |
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Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land
ISBN: 9781616406646 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps the first modern travelogues still to capture the imaginations of armchair explorers, the mid-19th-century bestselling books of American diplomat and writer JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS (1805-1852) reads like the most inspired of novels. The poetic immediacy places the reader square in the saddle of adventure. In this classic 1837 work-which a critic like Edgar Allan Poe praised for its "freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling"-Stephens takes the reader on an evocative journey through the Middle East, from a visit to the pyramids of Egypt to encounters with enthusiastic locals and...
Perhaps the first modern travelogues still to capture the imaginations of armchair explorers, the mid-19th-century bestselling books of American diplo...
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203,94 zł |
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