San Juan: Memoir of a City
ISBN: 9780299203740 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodrí guez Juliá . No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture.
In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodrí guez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own... "San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflec...
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127,42 zł |
The West Indies on $50.00 a Day: Guesthouse Travel in the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780595150106 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,48 zł |
Anguilla to Dominica
ISBN: 9780595173570 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,18 zł |
The West Indies Before and Since Slave Emancipation: Comprising the Windward and Leeward Islands' Military Command.....
ISBN: 9780714619354 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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700,25 zł |
The Present State of Haiti (Saint Domingo), 1828: With Remarks on Its Agriculture, Commerce, Laws Religion Etc.
ISBN: 9780714627076 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1972. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1972. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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778,05 zł |
Sketches of Hayti : From the Expulsion of the French to the Death of Christophe
ISBN: 9780714627083 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1827, this is an account of the revolution and its immediate aftermath in Haiti. The author was a surgeon employed by King Christophe.
First published in 1827, this is an account of the revolution and its immediate aftermath in Haiti. The author was a surgeon employed by King Christop...
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778,05 zł |
Transatlantic Topographies : Islands, Highlands, Jungles
ISBN: 9780816642236 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Transatlantic Topographies studies the representation of American space during the initial confrontation between Europeans and Amerindians and during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Starting from topographical descriptions of land, islands, highlands, and jungles, Ileana Rodriguez shows how existing systems of knowledge broke down with the discovery of the Americas and had to be reinvented through the interpretation of signs, the accumulation of evidence, material exchange, and, finally, through the learning, teaching, and "kidnapping" of language. Proceeding from the...
"Transatlantic Topographies studies the representation of American space during the initial confrontation between Europeans and Amerindians and during...
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300,85 zł |
Jamaica
ISBN: 9780837116549 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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404,04 zł |
Journey to Accompong
ISBN: 9780837151878 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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300,30 zł |
Cuba: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture
ISBN: 9780837173191 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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218,40 zł |
Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781400076130 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba -the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen, - few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer ample proof of the fascinations that have lured generations of travelers.
In this richly varied anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we hear from such famous visitors as Anthony Trollope, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Graham Greene. Poets and journalists offer their responses, from Allen Ginsberg and Jayne Cortez to Alma Guillermoprieto and Robert Stone; and novelists... Since Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba -the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen, - few places on earth have evoked such pass...
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73,50 zł |
Dominicana: A Guide for Inquirers Second Edition
ISBN: 9781411614291 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reference book for lay Dominicans and anyone else interested in learning about the Order of Preachers.
A reference book for lay Dominicans and anyone else interested in learning about the Order of Preachers.
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82,32 zł |
Everything You Need To Know Grand Bahama Island
ISBN: 9781411628007 / Angielski / Miękka / 61 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "must have" travel guide for vacationing on Grand Bahama Island. Packed with over fifty pages of photographs and tons of vacation information. Including independent info on Grand Bahama Hotels, Grand Bahama vacation rentals, Grand Bahama beaches, Grand Bahama restaurants, Grand Bahama nightlife, Grand Bahama adventure services, Grand Bahama scuba diving, Grand Bahama snorkeling, Grand Bahama dolphin adventures, Grand Bahama island navagation, Grand Bahama transportation and much more.
The "must have" travel guide for vacationing on Grand Bahama Island. Packed with over fifty pages of photographs and tons of vacation information. Inc...
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56,71 zł |
Living on an Arc: A Caribbean Memoir
ISBN: 9781411654136 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brent Wilson fled the rat race of the Developed World and moved to Nevis, one of the Caribbean's tiniest and least-developed islands. He took just a few, simple possessions: a suitcase filled with underwear, a copy of Robinson Crusoe, and some string. Brent discovered that Caribbean life is not all sun, rum and sand. His arrival coincided with Hurricane Hugo, and he encountered tarantulas in his toilet and scorpions in his bed. He could barely understand the islanders, and during his first years on Nevis grew close to a nineteen-year-old woman dead over three hundred years. But Brent stuck it...
Brent Wilson fled the rat race of the Developed World and moved to Nevis, one of the Caribbean's tiniest and least-developed islands. He took just a f...
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103,15 zł |
The Voyage of Vagabundo
ISBN: 9781412001182 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sailors, dreamers and adventurers will love this account of a family cruise from Annapolis to Santa Barbara. A tale filled with humor, love, pirates and storms.
Sailors, dreamers and adventurers will love this account of a family cruise from Annapolis to Santa Barbara. A tale filled with humor, love, pirates a...
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108,41 zł |
Near A Far Sea: A Jamaican Odyssey
ISBN: 9781425908928 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,41 zł |
Sailing to Hemingway's Cuba
ISBN: 9781574091106 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schaefer (a journalist) describes his sea voyage and his stay in Cuba, tracking down Hemingway's old haunts in and around Havana. He considers the island's literary past and its political present, and provides a view of the daily life of average Cubans. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portl
Schaefer (a journalist) describes his sea voyage and his stay in Cuba, tracking down Hemingway's old haunts in and around Havana. He considers the isl...
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81,85 zł |
Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island
ISBN: 9781580051798 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Es Cuba is a poignant and passionate travel memoir about falling in love with a country and one of its compatriots. Aschkenas never strays from her acute awareness that there is no way to separate her foreignness (intensified by U.S.-Cuba relations) from the complex mix of emotions, devotion and rejection, enrapture and apprehension that she develops toward the country.
Her tale is filled with beautifully woven descriptions of Cuba and the customs and habits of its people. Aschkenas is a discerning observer, taking in the innocence, isolation, contradictions, and resolute optimism... Es Cuba is a poignant and passionate travel memoir about falling in love with a country and one of its compatriots. Aschkenas never strays from...
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95,36 zł |
Reader's Companion to Cuba
ISBN: 9780156003674 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gathering of some of the best travel writing ever about the most intriguing hot spot in the Caribbean, this book includes work by Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Thomas Merton, Anais N n, Frederic Remington, James Michener, Tommy Lasorda, and others. The Reader s Companion to Cuba offers an infinitely more revealing and personal time-lapse tour of this complex country than could possibly be offered by any standard guidebook. Map.
" A gathering of some of the best travel writing ever about the most intriguing hot spot in the Caribbean, this book includes work by Hemingway, Langsto...
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130,10 zł |
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
ISBN: 9780061695131 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica--where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s--Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo. An invaluable resource and remarkable guide to Voodoo practices, rituals, and beliefs, it is a travelogue into a dark, mystical world that offers a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies, customs, and superstitions. Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica--where she participated as an initiate rather than just an... |
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69,34 zł |