Steve's Adventure with the Peace Corps: Stories from the Kingdom of Tonga and the United States Peace Corps
ISBN: 9781461141891 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a 23 year career in TV News, Steve Hunsicker left the comforts of his Florida home, moved to the South Pacific and served for more than two years as Peace Corps Volunteer. As a volunteer, Steve helped more than 500 small business owners start or expand businesses in one on on settings and workshops. He created websites for four Tongan businesses; he tutored students on business topics at the University of the South Pacific and produced several videos including one for Peace Corps to explain Tonga to incoming volunteers. Steve is also the co-author of a travel book about Tonga published...
After a 23 year career in TV News, Steve Hunsicker left the comforts of his Florida home, moved to the South Pacific and served for more than two year...
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72,11 zł |
Discoveries in Australia: With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed During the Voyage of the HMS Beagle, Between the Years 1837 an
ISBN: 9781108032711 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831 6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering more about the largely unknown land mass. The expedition set off in 1837 and Stokes did not return to England until 1843 after 18 years of service on the Beagle when he began work on this two-volume account of the voyage, which was published in 1846. This work provides a detailed narrative of the...
John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 183...
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370,92 zł |
Discoveries in Australia: With an Account of the Hitherto Unknown Coasts Surveyed During the Voyage of the HMS Beagle, Between the Years 1837 an
ISBN: 9781108032728 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831 6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering more about the largely unknown land mass. The expedition set off in 1837 and Stokes did not return to England until 1843 after 18 years of service on the Beagle when he began work on this two-volume account of the voyage, which was published in 1846. This work provides a detailed narrative of the...
John Lort Stokes (1812 85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 183...
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370,92 zł |
Hot Silver - Riding the Indian Pacific
ISBN: 9780980855951 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's Bill Bryson meets Paul Theroux in Steven Lewis's hilarious review of his train journey across Australia on the Indian Pacific in the train's fortieth anniversary year. Hot Silver stops with the train in Broken Hill, Adelaide and Kalgoorlie, all of which are closed when the Indian Pacific visits. Most closed of all, though, is Cook, the tiny town (pop. 5) in the middle of the vast Nullarbor Plain, 200,000 square kilometres of nothingness in the centre of Australia. "It's like walking round one of those fake towns the Americans built to test their nuclear weapons. I wouldn't be surprised...
It's Bill Bryson meets Paul Theroux in Steven Lewis's hilarious review of his train journey across Australia on the Indian Pacific in the train's fort...
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42,40 zł |
...so I did: One man's hitchhiking journey around Australia photographing everyone who gave him a lift and writing about each hitch
ISBN: 9781463648534 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sometime around the end of 1993, while living in Scotland, I came up with the idea to hitchhike around Australia photographing everyone who gave me a lift and writing about each hitch. It was another way of doing the 'around Australia' idea and, in the process, meeting and photographing Australians (mainly) in one of their most personal of environments, their car/ute/van/truck. Sitting in my flat in Edinburgh, I often wondered what I was doing uprooting myself and moving back to Australia to do this. I'd never hitched before and had no idea where to begin or what to do. The fear of the...
Sometime around the end of 1993, while living in Scotland, I came up with the idea to hitchhike around Australia photographing everyone who gave me a ...
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93,29 zł |
New Zealand - Been There & Done That: 20 Years of New Zealand Travel Experience
ISBN: 9781466219502 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn about New Zealand from a real professional travel writer/photographer who has travelled in his bus/home/office throughout the entire country for years searching for travel articles and photographs taking the side roads of discovery that he will share in this book. It is a complete guide to New Zealand by a person who has actually been on the road. All the information necessary for you to have the top holiday ever experienced in a magic world of beauty and spectacular wonder - New Zealand. He will personally introduce you to the fabulous scenic wonders of New Zealand, exciting activities...
Learn about New Zealand from a real professional travel writer/photographer who has travelled in his bus/home/office throughout the entire country for...
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212,02 zł |
European Perceptions of Terra Australis
ISBN: 9781409426059 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts,...
Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, al...
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744,88 zł |
Hijacked 3
ISBN: 9783868282856 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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216,25 zł |
To Australia for a Supernova and a Flood: High Altitude Balloon in the Australian Outback
ISBN: 9781466423527 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Story of a scientific expedition to Alice Springs Australia to observe the supernova of 1987 using a high altitude balloon. Includes an account of the long airline flight, various encounters with Australians and a visit to Ayer's Rock.
Story of a scientific expedition to Alice Springs Australia to observe the supernova of 1987 using a high altitude balloon. Includes an account of the...
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22,84 zł |
Livin' Lahaina Loca
ISBN: 9781475071061 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's Halloween night in Lahaina Town, Maui and the Mardi Gras of the Pacific is in full swing... But wedding planner Pali Moon isn't in costume--she's on a mission. A bridesmaid has vanished and Pali's canvassing Front Street, ducking into every overcrowded watering hole hoping to spot a girl with long red hair and a lingerie model's figure. No luck. Back at her car, Pali opens the door and finds the remnants of a bizarre trick or treat stunt. Turns out, Halloween in Lahaina isn't just a night for island high-jinx, it's also a night for vengeance.
It's Halloween night in Lahaina Town, Maui and the Mardi Gras of the Pacific is in full swing... But wedding planner Pali Moon isn't in costume--she's...
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55,14 zł |
The Great Australian Bite: Classic Australian Travel Adventure
ISBN: 9780964617551 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story is about finding ones center, ones strengths and weaknesses and standing alone, free of the secure world that had surrounded you for your first twenty-years. It's about a young mans journey that took him from just being a insecure adolescent to an adult in a short breath of just 12 months in 1974. I was responsible for instigating this trip and feel that its one so interesting that I have recounted that year in his life in The Great Australian Bite. Read on and enjoy a trip across Australia and back in an old ambulance and back. Australia has been called the "Land of Lies" but for...
This story is about finding ones center, ones strengths and weaknesses and standing alone, free of the secure world that had surrounded you for your f...
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29,67 zł |
A Visitor's Guide to Driving New Zealand
ISBN: 9781480113718 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to all those wishing to self-drive by car, motorhome or van written by Ron Laughlin who has spent 20 years traveling New Zealand in search of information and photographs for travel articles. Over five years in a bus full time. Want to know the best routes? what's down that side road? Where to discover the best scenic sights? Get up close to the wildlife? Learn about the culture? Where to stay the night? Meet the locals? This is the book for you...........
A guide to all those wishing to self-drive by car, motorhome or van written by Ron Laughlin who has spent 20 years traveling New Zealand in search of ...
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71,95 zł |
Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World
ISBN: 9781877551352 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In small-town, suburban New Zealand, with its seemingly average people, can be found many stories of lives, loves, aspirations, and, sporadically, a dark secret or two. As reported by a much-followed columnist and awarded journalist, these rich, fascinating, and occasionally disturbing stories of settlements follow people living throughout New Zealand, from Kawakawa in the north to Mosgiel in the south, and Samoa and Antarctica overseas. Funny, moving, and at times terrifying, this book provides a platform from which New Zealand reveals itself and proves that rarely are people and places as...
In small-town, suburban New Zealand, with its seemingly average people, can be found many stories of lives, loves, aspirations, and, sporadically, a d...
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106,07 zł |
Camelman Dreaming: A Fifteen Year Journey. The Dream and the Reality Waiting to Happen! Australia's Last Great Camel Expedition.
ISBN: 9781481977159 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Camelman Dreaming Australia's Last Great Camel Expedition Camelman Dreaming is the true story of a dream that took fifteen years in total to complete. The Darwin to Melbourne Thank You Camel Expedition 2008-2009 resulted in over $30,000 raised for the Children First Foundation along with national and world wide awareness of the Foundations goals of saving and changing children's lives in need of specialist medical procedures. Russell Osborne, the creator of the Darwin to Melbourne Thank You Camel Expedition 2008-2009, had been a lecturer in English on the Gold Coast of Australia when in an...
Camelman Dreaming Australia's Last Great Camel Expedition Camelman Dreaming is the true story of a dream that took fifteen years in total to complete....
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118,81 zł |
What Happens on Tour
ISBN: 9780957269309 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fancy joining a burly Irish lunatic on a hilarious, pulsating, whirlwind tour of Australia and New Zealand? If so, 'What Happens on Tour...', by professional Writer and Journalist, Ciaran Murphy, is the book for you Endorsed by Explorer and Author, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, WHoT sees Murphy risk life and liver - indeed, liver - to bring you the real story of what backpackers get up to in the Antipodes. There is the insane bungee jumping and Mad Dog river boarding in Queenstown, the quiet madness of the outback, the pristine beauty of New Zealand and...much more. To pace the book and give it...
Fancy joining a burly Irish lunatic on a hilarious, pulsating, whirlwind tour of Australia and New Zealand? If so, 'What Happens on Tour...', by profe...
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63,67 zł |
Wonders Down Under
ISBN: 9781481726863 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever wished you could go somewhere that you have read about or heard about to see for yourself what it is like? That is how this book began. After spending one school year (ten months) on the island of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands where the reef was part of the back yard and the lagoon was just around the corner, the longing to see the Great Barrier Reef kept creeping in to haunt the author. Over 50 years later, the opportunity came along. There was only one day allotted for the visit to Green Island and that day was one of storm and rough seas. That would not ruin the trip...
Have you ever wished you could go somewhere that you have read about or heard about to see for yourself what it is like? That is how this book began. ...
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100,98 zł |
Kokoda Trail for Dummies
ISBN: 9780730376996 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everything you need to know about the Kokoda Trail and its place in Australian history Whether you want to walk the Kokoda Trail or just learn about its significance in Australia′s wartime history, this book includes all the information you need. Kokoda For Dummies provides practical tips for preparing to walk the track, including advice on what gear to pack, choosing a trekking company, hiring a porter, safety and more! Understand why Japanese forces invaded Papua New Guinea — discover the motivations behind the Battle of Kokoda Follow the action along the track — see how the...
Everything you need to know about the Kokoda Trail and its place in Australian history Whether you want to walk the Kokoda Trail or just learn about ...
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110,86 zł |
Reach for Paradise
ISBN: 9780988674844 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A song to Pacific islands rooted in a far-ranging journey, Reach for Paradise is the Pacific addition to the world's fine travel literature. Written as he gained deep knowledge of the islands and their peoples, their history and traditions, the influences that have shaped their destiny, Rayner's story conveys the mystery and marvel of travel to destinations denied most people. Intent on exploring what if anything has survived of the paradise celebrated by travelers of past centuries, Rayner bought a sailboat and set off, picking up both boat and island knowledge as he ploughed 30,000 miles of...
A song to Pacific islands rooted in a far-ranging journey, Reach for Paradise is the Pacific addition to the world's fine travel literature. Written a...
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187,91 zł |
The Happy Isles of Oceania : Paddling the Pacific
ISBN: 9780140159769 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Invites readers to join the author on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these isles.
Invites readers to join the author on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, ...
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102,69 zł |
Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide
ISBN: 9780300196825 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A must-have guide for anyone interested in the extraordinary birds in New Zealand
New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, but thanks to recent conservation efforts, many of the country's species of birds are now protected in parks and island sanctuaries. Illustrated with nearly a thousand new photographs from one of New Zealand's top nature photographers and drawing on the... A must-have guide for anyone interested in the extraordinary birds in New Zealand
New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity... |
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189,26 zł |