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Sheila's Guide to Fast & Easy Beijing
ISBN: 9781481149310 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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23,91 |
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What Never Leaves
ISBN: 9780692212134 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his debut work of fiction, Daniel Tam-Claiborne chronicles the experience of living and working as an English teacher in the rural Chinese town of Taigu. In a collection of twenty-two short stories organized around the theme of culture shock, he intersperses the narrative with scenes from his journeys further afield, while constantly questioning his own identity as a Chinese American. What Never Leaves is a fascinating and often startling look into China's modern culture and the ceaseless search for understanding in a foreign land. With humor, poise, and curiosity, Tam-Claiborne...
In his debut work of fiction, Daniel Tam-Claiborne chronicles the experience of living and working as an English teacher in the rural Chinese town of ...
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Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China, From the Gobi Desert to the South China Sea
ISBN: 9781444745306 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China. Along the way he and his cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China's longest road tunnel, explore desolate stretches of the Great Wall and endure interrogation by the Chinese police.
As they walk on through the heart of China, the exuberant hospitality of cave dwellers, coal miners and desert nomads keeps them going, despite sub-zero blizzards and the treacherous terrain. Rob writes with humour and honesty about the hardships... Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across Ch...
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Magic and Mystery in Tibet
ISBN: 9781614276296 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,93 |
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China Travel Map Eighth Edition
ISBN: 9780794607715 / Angielski / Other Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The China Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers. Created using durable coated paper, this map of China is made to open and fold multiple times, whether it's the entire map that you want to view or one panel at a time. Following highways and byways, this China map will show you how to maneuver your way to banks, gardens, hotels, golf courses, museums, monuments, restaurants, churches and temples, movie theaters, shopping centers and more This 8th edition includes area maps and city plans that are scaled to:
The China Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers. Created using durable coated paper, this map ...
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Peaks on the Horizon: Two Journeys in Tibet
ISBN: 9781619024847 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charlie Carroll's obsession began with his chance discovery of Seven Years in Tibet in the "Adult Reading" section of his grade school library. The battered hardcover with faded gold lettering sparked a twenty-year obsession with Tibet, and after combing through every book, article, and documentary on the mysterious and controversial nation, Charlie finally decided it was time to stop reading other people's records and thoughts. A high school English teacher by then, he took a sabbatical and set out to experience the shrouded land for himself. Contending with Chinese bureaucracy, unforgiving...
Charlie Carroll's obsession began with his chance discovery of Seven Years in Tibet in the "Adult Reading" section of his grade school library. The ba...
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Chinese Girl Confessions: Sex and Love, Asian Style
ISBN: 9781503094208 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Chinese Girl Confessions" details Chinese women's dating and sex lives and romantic and sexual turn-ons and turn-offs, including direct advice for foreign men marrying or bedding Chinese girls.
Angelina Zhang describes Chinese dating standards and desires for both men and women, typical dating and sex rituals, attitudes toward foreigners, and ways foreign men can use China's dating peculiarities for their own benefit. Chinese girls aren't all Suzie Wong sexpots, but they're not as prim and proper as they may seem. The truth is a lot more interesting. "Chinese Girl Confessions" details Chinese women's dating and sex lives and romantic and sexual turn-ons and turn-offs, including direct advice for fo...
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Good Food for All: Developing Knowledge Relationships Between China and Australia
ISBN: 9781925138399 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprises a collection of essays which emanated from an important Australia China Council (ACC) sponsored event conducted in Wuhan, China in November 2013. Entitled Australia-China Food Knowledge Exchange," the scholarly focus was on the potential of the food sector in both countries and the growing need for "Good food for all." This event led many of the specialists to convert their papers into peer reviewed, reflections on the key themes debated in China and subsequently ended up in the collection of essays contained in this book. While a snapshot of the event, this book captures...
This book comprises a collection of essays which emanated from an important Australia China Council (ACC) sponsored event conducted in Wuhan, China in...
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A Hore in China
ISBN: 9781479744237 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86 Dumplings of Insight into China: Stories about China, China's people and the Chinese Way of Life
ISBN: 9780646931975 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MY STORIES FROM CHINA FOR YOU Are you moving or travelling to China? Are you curious about Chinese culture? Peel back the layers and uncover the richness of a Chinese way of life. 86 Dumplings Of Insight Into China is an intimate guide to Chinese culture all wrapped up in bite-sized morsels of stories and insight. Come along with Sally as she shares own personal stories and observations that go to the heart of China and Chinese peoples' behaviour. From sex education to hot drinks and Chinese last names to family finances you'll come to understand why Chinese culture is so inextricably linked...
MY STORIES FROM CHINA FOR YOU Are you moving or travelling to China? Are you curious about Chinese culture? Peel back the layers and uncover the richn...
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Vietnam Hanoi Old Quarter City Walks: Best 7 Walking Tours. Discover 36 Ancient Streets. Local Haunts, Insider Tips.
ISBN: 9780992811488 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DO YOU WANT TO FIND THE SECRET TUNNEL ONCE USED BY VIETNAMESE PATRIOTS? (IT'S BEHIND A WALL IN A LOCAL BAR )...AND A SECRET CAFE HIDDEN AWAY INSIDE AN ANCIENT HOUSE FULL OF RARE ANTIQUES...OR THE GATES TO ANCIENT TEMPLES...SACRED PRAYER TREES AND -MUST-SEE- FAMOUS PLACES?
When you travel across the world to get to Vietnam and with a limited time frame, you want to experience the authentic Hanoi. 'Hanoi Old Quarter City Walks' guides you to where hidden treasures and cultural Vietnamese icons are. Just choose one of the carefully planned city walks and follow the easy directions and... DO YOU WANT TO FIND THE SECRET TUNNEL ONCE USED BY VIETNAMESE PATRIOTS? (IT'S BEHIND A WALL IN A LOCAL BAR )...AND A SECRET CAFE HIDDEN AWAY INSIDE AN...
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The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan
ISBN: 9781619027107 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To travel upon the Silk Road is to travel through history. Millennia older than California's Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years senior to the roads of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road is a network of routes stretching from delta towns of China all the way to the Mediterranean Sea - a cultural highway considered to be essential to the development of some of the world's oldest civilizations. It was upon this road that that Chinese silk traveled and was exchanged for incense, precious stones, and gold from India, the Middle East and as far the Mediterranean, contributing to the great...
To travel upon the Silk Road is to travel through history. Millennia older than California's Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years senior to the r...
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Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging
ISBN: 9781611803297 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and longing, a daughter's pilgrimage to her mother's native Tibet becomes a journey of homecoming and self-discovery. In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation.
After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee... In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and longing, a daughter's pilgrimage to her mother's native Tibet becomes a journey of homecoming ...
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The Best of Japan for Tourists & Japanese for Beginners & the Best of China for Tourists & Chinese for Beginners
ISBN: 9781503369559 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best of Japan for Tourists: The Ultimate Guide for Russia's Top Sites, Restaurants, Shopping, and Beaches for Tourists + Japanese for Beginners: The Best Handbook for learning to speak Russian + The Best Of China for Tourists: The Ultimate Guide for China's Top Sites, Restaurants, Shopping, and Beaches for Tourists + Chinese for Beginners: The Best Handbook for Learning to Speak Chinese Japan
Planning a trip to Japan and don't know where to go? Have no idea where to start this trip in this wonderful country your about to see? ...The Best of Japan for Tourists: The Ultimate Guide for Russia's Top Sites, Restaurants, Shopping, and Beaches for Tourists + Japanese for Begin...
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South of the Yangtze
ISBN: 9781619027343 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remained the center of Chinese civilization for the next 4,000 years. Then a thousand years ago, this changed. A thousand years ago, the center of Chinese civilization moved to the Yangtze. And the Yangtze, not the Yellow River, has remained the center of its civilization. A thousand years ago, the Chinese came up with a name for this new center of its civilization. They called it Chiangnan, meaning "South of the River," the river in question, of...
Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remai...
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Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China
ISBN: 9780143109891 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Dragon Riveris a personal journey down one of Asia s great rivers that reveals the region s essential history and culture. The world s ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with east Asia. He follows a journey from the river's top to bottom, and weaves the history, ecology and peoples to show a region obsessed with the past and to show how this region holds a key to the...
Black Dragon Riveris a personal journey down one of Asia s great rivers that reveals the region s essential history and culture. The world s ninth lar...
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The China Sketchbook
ISBN: 9780857423979 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of blank pages. When the literary conference that took him there ended and his fellow writers returned to India, Sealy stayed on to travel the railroads of the north in search of a town reminiscent of his Himalayan hometown and a man who might resemble himself. Sign language, good will, and plain luck see him through, but in a northern mining town known for its ancient Buddhist cave sculptures, Sealy finally comes to the conclusion that his other was unreachable, his...
A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of blank pages. When th...
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Small Footsteps In The Land Of The Dragon
ISBN: 9780989406543 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Life and sport in China
ISBN: 9781530340743 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic text provides fascinating insight to British attitued toward China during the early years of the 20th Century.
This classic text provides fascinating insight to British attitued toward China during the early years of the 20th Century.
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Travels in Tartary Thibet and China, Volume Two: 1844-1846
ISBN: 9781138867727 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics the chapters cover: The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners and... 'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work rema... |
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