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Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond
ISBN: 9780312239336 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower of London where some say its curse controls the fate of the Windsor family. In Chasing the Mountain of Light, Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-i-Noor on a journey to the heart of Indian culture meeting dealers,... The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palace... |
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Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
ISBN: 9780312426415 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia, and considers the pressures of Western-style modernity and prosperity on the region. Beginning in India, his examination takes him from the realities of Bollywood stardom, to the history of Jawaharlal Nehru's post-independence politics. In Kashmir, he reports on the brutal massacre of thirty-five Sikhs, and its intriguing local aftermath. And in Tibet, he exquisitely parses the situation... A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and po... |
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An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India
ISBN: 9780375708350 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of... A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland...
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India in Mind
ISBN: 9780375727450 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the world s second most populous nation over the past two centuries.
From Mark Twain s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs, to Allen Ginsberg s awe at the country s spiritual and natural splendors, or from J. R. Ackerley s delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, to Gore Vidal s unforgettable scene... Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This supe...
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Hima Jour V1:Sci Tra 1790-1877
ISBN: 9780415289344 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Hima Jour V2:Sci Tra 1790-1877
ISBN: 9780415289351 / Angielski / Twarda / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal
ISBN: 9780520069411 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on elements of various genres--anthropological monograph, literary memoir, and photojournalism--James Fisher has devised this multivocal format to trace the impact of modern education and mass tourism on contemporary Sherpa society and to present and assess the Sherpas; views of their collective future.
Drawing on elements of various genres--anthropological monograph, literary memoir, and photojournalism--James Fisher has devised this multivocal forma...
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Outer Journey Inner Journey: Travels in India, Nepal, & Indonesia
ISBN: 9780595455744 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experience these countries through their myths, religions and philosophies. Explore their geography. Make sense of their political challenges. Visit incredible caves, mountains, rivers and festivals in off-the-beaten-track places. Discover in detail how exploration and immersion in foreign cultures produce constant internal reflection and self re-discovery. Feast your eyes, challenge your mind, open your heart.
Experience these countries through their myths, religions and philosophies. Explore their geography. Make sense of their political challenges. Visit i...
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Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India
ISBN: 9780802137333 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka.
Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course...
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Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
ISBN: 9780812217438 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animosity toward their neighbors across the border. . . . The border divides them but it is also a seam that j
"During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animo...
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Blogging Through India
ISBN: 9781425978082 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ramblings with Ruth
ISBN: 9781931475228 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the missionaries Sam and Ruth Schmitthenner, who served the Telugu people in India for thirty years (1960-1990).
The story of the missionaries Sam and Ruth Schmitthenner, who served the Telugu people in India for thirty years (1960-1990).
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Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir
ISBN: 9781931641524 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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![Expedition Naga: Diaries from the Hills in Northeast India, 1921-1937 & 2002-2006 [With DVD] Van Ham, Peter 9781851495603 Not Avail](/9781851495603_expedition_naga_diaries_from_the_hills_in_northeast_india_1921_1937_2002_2006_with_dvd.jpg "Expedition Naga: Diaries from the Hills in Northeast India, 1921-1937 & 2002-2006 [With DVD]") |
Expedition Naga: Diaries from the Hills in Northeast India, 1921-1937 & 2002-2006 [With DVD]
ISBN: 9781851495603 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A vivid comparison of life in the Naga Hills in India in the 1920s and '30s and the present.
A vivid comparison of life in the Naga Hills in India in the 1920s and '30s and the present.
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Queen Of The Elephants
ISBN: 9780099592013 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tiny aristocratic figure of Parbati Barua, known as queen of the elephants, Mark Shand finds his ultimate guru. He had already learned about the ways of elephants after riding his beloved Tara across India, a journey which he described in Travels on My Elephant, for which he won the 1992 Travel Writer of the Year Award. But he is no match for the daughter of India's greatest expert on the Asian elephant, the late Prince of Gauripur, who taught her everything. She lassoed her first wild elephant before she was 20.
In the tiny aristocratic figure of Parbati Barua, known as queen of the elephants, Mark Shand finds his ultimate guru. He had already learned about th...
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Glimpses of Bengal - Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1885-1895
ISBN: 9781604500820 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The letters translated in this book span the most productive period of my literary life, when, owing to great good fortune, I was young and less known. From the Introduction.
The letters translated in this book span the most productive period of my literary life, when, owing to great good fortune, I was young and less known...
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Womens Travel Writing 1750-1850: Volume 4
ISBN: 9780415320382 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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India South and North East: 2008
ISBN: 9781553410690 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scale = 1/2,3M edition = 2008.
Scale = 1/2,3M edition = 2008.
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
ISBN: 9780547237930 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made Great Railway Bazaar a classic of travel literature and realizes in rich, anecdotal detail how much the world has changed. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the... Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made Great Railway Bazaar a classic of travel literature and realizes in ric... |
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Passage Through India
ISBN: 9781593761783 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder, with his former wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India "to see the hearth-land of the Buddha's teachings." Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case, also wrote the whole account in one long letter to his sister. Passage Through India brings both together in celebration of and reverence for India and its teachings. As Snyder writes in his original preface, "I honor India for many things: those neolithic cattle breeders who...
In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder, with his former wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orl...
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