Best-Kept Secrets of Paris
ISBN: 9780857753977 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry James said, 'Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and the lust of the eyes'. Renowned as the City of Light, Paris is celebrated for its beautiful city plan, its architecture, museums, bridges, cathedrals, parks, shopping, flea markets, sidewalk cafes, wide and luxurious boulevards, elegant cuisine, and numerous monuments. Once confined to an island in the middle of the river Seine, the Ile de la Cite, Paris, founded more than 2,000 years ago, quickly spread to both banks of the river the 'rive droit' (right bank) and the 'rive gauche' (left bank). The right bank is...
Henry James said, 'Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and the lust of the eyes'. Renowned as the City of Light, Paris is celebra...
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48 Hours in Paris: Paris Travel Guide
ISBN: 9781470174125 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paris has been the subject of so many paintings, poems, songs and novels throughout the centuries and yet it still manages to inspire romance into the hearts of travelers. It is an iconic world city which will occupy your daydreams long before you visit it and remain in your memory for even longer. World class cuisine, tree-lined boulevards of stately historic buildings, tiny cafes with sidewalk patios, and some of the most truly impressive art galleries and museums in the world await you in the "City of Light." Check out some of John Jones' personal favorites and hand-picked cafes and wine...
Paris has been the subject of so many paintings, poems, songs and novels throughout the centuries and yet it still manages to inspire romance into the...
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45,40 zł |
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
ISBN: 9781612428079 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,60 zł |
A Tour of the Heart: A Seductive Cycling Trip Through France
ISBN: 9781479134366 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Tour of the Heart: A Seductive Cycling Trip Through France, part memoir, part love story, is a romantic ode to the most visited country in the world. Told by a proudly-feminine and sophisticated travel writer, an expert in all things French, searching for harmony and true love with her super-cyclist boyfriend. A Tour of the Heart will keep you captivated through its many twists and turns. A Tour of the Heart highlights the life of a travel writer, France, cycling, food and wine, the Tour de France and the joys and travails of traveling with someone you love. The freedom, the challenges, the...
A Tour of the Heart: A Seductive Cycling Trip Through France, part memoir, part love story, is a romantic ode to the most visited country in the world...
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91,73 zł |
The Whole Fromage: Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese
ISBN: 9780307452061 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Amazon 2013 Best of the YearPick
The French, "sans doute," " "love their "fromages." And there's much to love: hundreds of gloriously pungent varieties--crumbly, creamy, buttery, even shot through with bottle-green mold. So many varieties, in fact, that the aspiring gourmand may wonder: How does one make sense of it all? In "The Whole Fromage," Kathe Lison sets out to learn what makes French cheese so remarkable--why France is the "Cheese Mother Ship," in the words of one American expert. Her journey takes her to cheese caves tucked within the craggy volcanic rock of Auvergne, to a... An Amazon 2013 Best of the YearPick
The French, "sans doute," " "love their "fromages." And there's much to love: hundreds of gloriously pungent v... |
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87,36 zł |
A French Opportunity
ISBN: 9780615697284 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel dreams stir a young girl, who sways on a front porch swing in the unique town of Opp, Alabama, to escape to "A French Opportunity." Aboard the front porch swing conducted as an imaginary train, she visits faraway places. She leaves her hometown with Jim, her young, "funny as all git-out husband," riding in a 1957 Chevy, not her romantic train. Children max out her checkbook, breast cancer causes an ugly scene, and there's always more and more work to finish; yet somehow she finds her way to her true love - France. She writes passionately of this love, sounding like Paula Deen longing...
Travel dreams stir a young girl, who sways on a front porch swing in the unique town of Opp, Alabama, to escape to "A French Opportunity." Aboard the ...
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68,75 zł |
Sights Less Seen: Paris
ISBN: 9781481295437 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you exhausted from working your way through the lists of "Best Things to See in Paris"? Have you wadded through mobs of tourists? Paid the substantial entry fees? Think you have explored all Paris offers? Twenty fascinating venues, both ancient and conremporary, await your discovery. If you are a fan of the strange, the slightly off-kilter or perhaps the downright wonderful and weird, delight in a whole new side to the City of Lights. Here are details of some the most novel, exceptional and unusual museums, restaurants and neighborhoods to enjoy in the world's most beloved capital: Paris ...
Are you exhausted from working your way through the lists of "Best Things to See in Paris"? Have you wadded through mobs of tourists? Paid the substan...
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45,63 zł |
Publications of the Scottish History Society
ISBN: 9783842446601 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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203,27 zł |
Provence for all Seasons: a journey
ISBN: 9780991724321 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's almost spring, and the Bitneys have returned for another season in Provence amid the olive trees, orchards and vineyards. With the renovations of their villa almost done, there is now time to learn more about the land they want to live in... Great sights lie within easy reach: the magnificent Roman Pont du Gard; Aix-en-Provence, where myriads of fountains blow water into the air; Arles, where Van Gogh painted his greatest masterpieces; and there are even unexpected festivals along the way. For Gordon Bitney, this also becomes his own personal journey: adapting to another culture,...
It's almost spring, and the Bitneys have returned for another season in Provence amid the olive trees, orchards and vineyards. With the renovations of...
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91,50 zł |
Provence, je t'aime
ISBN: 9780991724338 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You have been invited to visit the famous French region of Provence, to experience its rural beauty and sunny splendour. Your guide is Gordon Bitney who, with his wife, has just bought a villa there.
Join the Bitneys on summer adventures as they renovate their villa and travel lavender-scented backroads, visiting ancient chateaux and Roman ruins. Discover, along with them, the region's bounty through its wines, cheeses, olives and escargots. Follow their adjustment to a different culture and their humorous challenges in dealing with tradesmen who have their own ideas about everything,... You have been invited to visit the famous French region of Provence, to experience its rural beauty and sunny splendour. Your guide is Gordon Bitney w...
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91,50 zł |
Room With Paris View
ISBN: 9780615773292 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If Jason and Jennifer Reeser were going to indulge their life-long fantasy of visiting Paris, they weren't going to play by the rules; no hotels, no guided tours, and none of those four-day-and-three-night packages. They would live in the City of Light as if they belonged. Setting aside two weeks in April, they ignored the experts and set out to find a Room With Paris View. "When you first encounter a city or a woman or a good book, you learn more about them, and fall in love with them the more you discover, but you will never quite match that moment when you first encountered them, knowing...
If Jason and Jennifer Reeser were going to indulge their life-long fantasy of visiting Paris, they weren't going to play by the rules; no hotels, no g...
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59,62 zł |
Going In Seine: An Apartment in Paris? A Crazy Idea!
ISBN: 9781482609226 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Polly Fielding has no idea what she is letting herself in for when, on impulse, she decides to blow her savings on a tiny apartment in Paris. She views it as an exciting adventure until, having paid the deposit, she comes face to face with reality. Struggling to use a rudimentary grasp of French, she tries to cope with situations rapidly spirally out of her control and grapples desperately with the infamous French bureaucracy in her attempts to settle into an alien environment. Through trial and error (mainly error) she discovers the importance of always observing French etiquette in shops,...
Polly Fielding has no idea what she is letting herself in for when, on impulse, she decides to blow her savings on a tiny apartment in Paris. She view...
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47,97 zł |
Paris Was a Woman : Portraits from the Left Bank
ISBN: 9781619021792 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this "scrapbook" of their work--along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary--highlights the political, social, and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists, including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, and many more. Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated, it is an enlightening account of women...
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female litera...
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108,98 zł |
A Motor-Flight Through France
ISBN: 9781447479376 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1908, 'A Motor-Flight Through France' was Edith Wharton's first French travel book and is considered one of the best of her always superior and original travel books. Based on three automobile journeys taken in 1906 and 1907, the book points up the perfections of France during the Belle Epoque. "The motor-car has restored the romance of travel" Edith Wharton"
Originally published in 1908, 'A Motor-Flight Through France' was Edith Wharton's first French travel book and is considered one of the best of her al...
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146,72 zł |
Tales from the Hilltop: a summer in the other South of France
ISBN: 9781482552812 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much more than a travel memoir ... it's an invitation to go and see for yourself. Whether roaming through forests of forbidden fruits or wandering in swaying fields of sunflowers, it's time to head off to the next mediaeval marvel and the next four-course feast. Pedalling along curvaceous country lanes or freewheeling through valleys and vineyards - earning your supper in this sleepy corner of France is nothing short of a privilege. Tony and Ludmilla have landed a job with a specialist cycling and walking holiday company in the South of France ... but that's not something we can hold against...
Much more than a travel memoir ... it's an invitation to go and see for yourself. Whether roaming through forests of forbidden fruits or wandering in ...
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50,40 zł |
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France
ISBN: 9780062088062 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and complex elements of French cuisine are in danger of disappearing as old ways of agriculture, butchering, and cooking fade and are forgotten. In this charming culinary travel memoir, John Baxter follows up his bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the... IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part hist... |
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78,58 zł |
A Piano In The Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains
ISBN: 9780091903336 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by breathtaking views and romantic fantasies of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys an idyllic house in the French Pyrenees. And here, he imagines, he will finally fulfill his childhood fantasy of mastering the piano, all the while overlooking spectacular views as the troubles of the world pass him by unnoticed. However, Tony s hopelessly ill-prepared stumbling into the world of overseas homeownership is perhaps best read as a useful manual of how not to go about buying a house abroad. He flirts with the moving company in a disastrous attempt to take his piano...
Inspired by breathtaking views and romantic fantasies of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys an idyllic house in the French Pyr...
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77,56 zł |
The Paris Mapguide
ISBN: 9780141469041 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular and portable, The Paris Mapguide-now in its second edition-contains everything visitors need to know to enjoy themselves in, get the best out of, and find their way around Paris. Its colorful, informative maps are easy to read and convenient to handle-no unfolding necessary. As terrific as the easily readable maps are, however, there is much more here. Packed into these 64 pages is a surprising amount of information about the many different sights and activities to see and do in and around the City of Light.
Popular and portable, The Paris Mapguide-now in its second edition-contains everything visitors need to know to enjoy themselves in, get the be...
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36,17 zł |
The Roman Remains of Southern France: A Guide Book
ISBN: 9780415143585 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Roman Remains of Southern France is the only specialist guidebook to this region available. It is the result of the most up-to-date research. Comprehensive in coverage, it provides depth and context while evoking the distinctive atmosphere of the place.
The book is easy to use, with a large number of maps, site plans and photographs and it will enable the traveller to explore the major cultural contribution made by the Romans to this part of France. The Roman Remains of Southern France is the only specialist guidebook to this region available. It is the result of the most up-to-date resea...
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199,33 zł |
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence
ISBN: 9780500289969 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. The Greeks, the Romans, the barbarians of the North, and the Moors have all left their traces in its villages, from the Luberon to the Alpes-Maritimes. It is in such smaller communities that the true Provencal spirit can be found: in brilliant sunlight falling across the tightly grouped terra-cotta roofs, or in the shade beneath great plane trees in an ancient square. Such scenes come alive here in Hugh Palmer's photographs and Michael Jacobs' evocative... Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. The Greeks, the Rom... |
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77,36 zł |