Our Journey to India
ISBN: 9781449523848 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two friends embark on an extraordinary journey across India into the homes and hearts of the Indian people. Yes, there were tears; yes, their mettle was tested, but at the end of the day, humour prevailed and pulled them through some of the most unexpected and amusing situations.
Two friends embark on an extraordinary journey across India into the homes and hearts of the Indian people. Yes, there were tears; yes, their mettle w...
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India and Asia Lite: Carrying 15 pound packs, a couple travel trough India and Asia for 12 months, using local transport. PLUS: Their prove
ISBN: 9781456370091 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "India and Asia Lite" Mark and Helen Fawcett are in their fifties. They are jaded with the comforts and routines of middle-class life in New Zealand and their marriage has become "business-like." They need some adventure, so decide to rediscover the thrill of long-term backpacking that they had experienced in their twenties. They take a year off; to venture to strange, out-of-the-way places and put themselves at the mercy of the unfamiliar and unexpected. Organising it all requires extensive planning and they have to overcome numerous unexpected obstacles. Carrying their fourteen pound packs,...
"India and Asia Lite" Mark and Helen Fawcett are in their fifties. They are jaded with the comforts and routines of middle-class life in New Zealand a...
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East of the Sun
ISBN: 9789380658360 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A journalist's vivid account of travels in the interiors of the North-east and the border to Myanmar. Told with wit and humorous perception. Beautifully illustrated with unusual photographs.
A journalist's vivid account of travels in the interiors of the North-east and the border to Myanmar. Told with wit and humorous perception. Beautiful...
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An Essay on India
ISBN: 9780415506236 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1931, Robert Byron's Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon Byron's travelling experiences within India in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express, the work explores political factors more fully than in Byron's earlier writings, evaluating the successes and failures of British colonialism in the region.
First published in 1931, Robert Byron's Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the...
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752,12 zł |
Meeting the Buddha: On Pilgrimage in Buddhist India Edited B
ISBN: 9781573225069 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From E.M. Forster to Peter Matthiessen to Allen Ginsberg, many of the world's most acclaimed writers have traveled to the holy lands of India seeking spiritual enlightenment. Their lyrical and highly personal recollections are compiled here for the first time in one volume, taking readers on a colorful journey to each of the eight Buddhist pilgrimage sites of India.
From E.M. Forster to Peter Matthiessen to Allen Ginsberg, many of the world's most acclaimed writers have traveled to the holy lands of India seeking ...
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104,08 zł |
A Walk Along The Ganges: 2000 miles from sea to source
ISBN: 9781461121961 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An enchanting portrayal of rural and urban northern India along the banks of her holiest river, stretching from the Bay of Bengal up into the Himalayas. The pilgrimage took seven months. Dennison Berwick writes, "I wanted to make a great walk, to set off with no prospect of ending for months. I wanted to see the land that had fired the British imagination for generations. I wanted to travel at the pace of rural India, where four out of five Indians live, and to walk in the footsteps of the peasants. And why the Ganga? I was searching for answers to one question: How could a river also be a...
An enchanting portrayal of rural and urban northern India along the banks of her holiest river, stretching from the Bay of Bengal up into the Himalaya...
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72,85 zł |
Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part II: Travel Writings on North America, the Far East, North and South Poles and the Middle East
ISBN: 9781851967216 / Angielski / Twarda / 1752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Romantic Period saw the advance of the massive British imperial expansion that was to make it dominant for most of the 19th century. There was a corresponding expansion in travel writings, which, highly popular in their own time, seemed to bring exotic realms within the grasp of the reading public and were a source for ethnographic and cultural information about other societies.
The Romantic Period saw the advance of the massive British imperial expansion that was to make it dominant for most of the 19th century. There was a c...
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The Adventures of Bindi Girl: Diving Deep Into the Heart of India
ISBN: 9780615547664 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erin Reese is a one-of-a-kind travel writer-a spiritual seeker and solo backpacker who dropped out of a successful career in corporate America, hit the road, and never looked back.
A SPIRITUAL TRAVELER'S SASSY TALE Packed with plenty of spicy curry, cows, and comedy, Bindi Girl takes us on one heck of a wild ride across India. From Dharamsala and the Dalai Lama to ashrams, yoga schools, and meditation melodramas, Bindi educates and entertains as she goes. We discover the Hindu deities, the tourist trap mafia, and the beach havens of the hippie trail. From "Guru Disney" to the... Erin Reese is a one-of-a-kind travel writer-a spiritual seeker and solo backpacker who dropped out of a successful career in corporate America, hit th...
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On buying a camel
ISBN: 9788799525904 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2008, readers of the British edition of Conde Nast Traveler named India as their "second favourite holiday destination" (after New Zealand). Yet 2008 was also the year when two Indian cities, Mumbai and Jaipur, were struck by terrorist attacks. Go to India on a holiday - for a couple of weeks or perhaps four months like this author did during the winter of 2009-2010. One of two things may happen: Either you will return home in despair at the poverty, corruption, and castes of India - promising never to visit that part of the world again. Or you will return with the certain knowledge that a...
In 2008, readers of the British edition of Conde Nast Traveler named India as their "second favourite holiday destination" (after New Zealand). Yet 20...
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145,16 zł |
The Scent of India
ISBN: 9781477643426 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widely admired as a film director, Pasolini's talents as a novelist, poet and political essayist are rarely recognised outside Italy. This vision of his visit to India, translated by David Clive Price, provides a fascinating insight into India and into Pasolini's own obsessions and ideals.
Widely admired as a film director, Pasolini's talents as a novelist, poet and political essayist are rarely recognised outside Italy. This vision of h...
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India: How to Guide to Stay Safe
ISBN: 9781469955506 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A travel guidebook guiding travelers to a safe stay in India. It covers what can and does happen in India so the reader knows what to expect and how to stay safe in any situation.
A travel guidebook guiding travelers to a safe stay in India. It covers what can and does happen in India so the reader knows what to expect and how t...
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62,61 zł |
Getting Down at Bhubaneshwar: And Other Indian Adventures
ISBN: 9781477148426 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Getting Down at Bhubaneshwar: And Other Indian Adventures
ISBN: 9781477148433 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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An American in Hyderabad: Life in India in the 1970s
ISBN: 9781893644052 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was India like before globalisation, call centres, and Bollywood? This author moved to India in 1976 and lived there for a number of years. This book describes what it was like to live, study and marry there.
What was India like before globalisation, call centres, and Bollywood? This author moved to India in 1976 and lived there for a number of years. This ...
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An Indian Sojourn: One woman's spiritual experience of travel & volunteering
ISBN: 9780981238128 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holistic MidLife Coach Ellen Besso had always wanted to travel to India. As a coach and author who helps women uncover their passions, find new directions in life, and put spirituality into practice in their daily lives, for as long as she could remember, she had a preoccupation with India and its people, feeling drawn to go there. An Indian Sojourn: One woman's spiritual experience of travel & volunteering is a wonderful book describing Ellen Besso's travel in India. Ellen writes: "India's draw is complex; we can't understand it within the frame of reference of our Western minds, and that is...
Holistic MidLife Coach Ellen Besso had always wanted to travel to India. As a coach and author who helps women uncover their passions, find new direct...
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52,50 zł |
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar'
ISBN: 9780141015729 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia.
Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and...
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55,70 zł |
Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India
ISBN: 9780141015958 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope. This work retraces the path of the once well-worn 'hippie trail' from Turkey to Iran, Afghanistan to Pakistan, and from India to Nepal.
In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kath...
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Hall of a Thousand Columns
ISBN: 9780719565878 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the 30 years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. In this enchanting travelogue, Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan s journey: the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaus of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Rajglittering and grotesque but genuineis revealed here."
Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the 30 years that followed he visited most of the known world betwe...
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65,84 zł |
Begums, Thugs and White Mughals
ISBN: 9780907871880 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by everything, from the trial of the thugs and the efficacy of opium on headaches to the adorning of a Hindu bride. To read her is to get as close as one can to a true picture of early...
Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. ...
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75,98 zł |
I Saw a Sunbird
ISBN: 9780957503007 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A witty and amusing account of a British-Sri Lankan child on a visit to family in Colombo. Engagingly written and a delight to read as it brings to life the exotic setting of that beautiful country.
A witty and amusing account of a British-Sri Lankan child on a visit to family in Colombo. Engagingly written and a delight to read as it brings to li...
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53,42 zł |