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Unterwegs nach Santiago...: auf der Via Lemovicensis
ISBN: 9783758351587 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Vaelluksia It?vallan ja Saksan Alpeilla
ISBN: 9789528020943 / Fiński Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,23 |
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Paris Souls: Unexpected Stories from the City of Light
ISBN: 9789464666403 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,57 |
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Adventure Stories
ISBN: 9781412811897 / Angielski / Miękka / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the age of 29, Jack London was the highest-paid and most widely read author in America, thanks to the huge popularity of The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang. Themes of these books also pervade this collection of short stories: survival though adaptation, compassion for the less fortunate, a respect for physical power in both man and nature, and the need for social justice. By the age of 29, Jack London was the highest-paid and most widely read author in America, thanks to the huge popularity of The Call of the Wild, ... |
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Experiencing Etruscan Pots: Ceramics, Bodies and Images in Etruria
ISBN: 9781784910563 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world without plastics, ceramics, alongside organic containers, were used for almost every substance which required protection or containment: from perfume to porridge. The experience of an Etruscan person, living day to day, would have been filled with interactions with ceramics, making them objects which can recall intimate transactions in the past to the archaeologist in the present.
Characterizing that experience of Etruscan pottery is the concern of this book. What was it like to use and live with Etruscan pottery? How was the interaction between an Etruscan pot structured and... In a world without plastics, ceramics, alongside organic containers, were used for almost every substance which required protection or containment: fr...
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The Rambler in North America, 1832-1833
ISBN: 9781116003932 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remov...
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164,97 |
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Cycles of a Traveler: True Tales of Voyage, Discovery and Synchronicity
ISBN: 9781452050232 / Angielski / Twarda / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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165,05 |
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In Motion: The Experience of Travel
ISBN: 9781611900118 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating, and illustrates how to avail oneself of this seemingly elusive quality--which he calls "deep travel"--on an everyday basis.
Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating, and illustrates how to avail oneself of this seemingly ...
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The English American: A New Survey of the West Indies, 1648
ISBN: 9781138603752 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Modernist Traveler: : French Detours, 1900-1930
ISBN: 9780803224124 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Modernist Traveler considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and novelistic travelogues. Instead these writers initiated a modernist strain in travel writing and a shift in the literary establishment and the culture at large. Kimberley J. Healey focuses on those French writers and thinkers who traveled in order to experience a displacement of both the inner self and the physical body while writing against the prevalent tradition of travel literature.The modern self, modern time, colonial spaces, and the...
The Modernist Traveler considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and ...
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By Airship to North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration
ISBN: 9780813526331 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By Airship to the North Polechronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon in 1897, and of American journalist Walter Wellman who organized and led three unsuccessful air expeditions from 1907 to 1909. The book investigates the stories behind the quests to reach this remote and inhospitable outpost by air and examines how those stories were created and reported by the press. What he uncovers allows readers to reflect on the distortions of the written historical record, particularly...
By Airship to the North Polechronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the...
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Border Country: The Northwoods Canoe Journals of Howard Greene, 1906-1916
ISBN: 9781517901073 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique archival account of the early twentieth-century north woods, with friends and family, canoes, a ready wit, and a Graflex camera
A unique archival account of the early twentieth-century north woods, with friends and family, canoes, a ready wit, and a Graflex camera
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A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna
ISBN: 9780822357049 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him through many Patnas, the myriad cities locked within the city the shabby reality of the present-day capital of Bihar; Pataliputra, the storied city of emperors; the dreamlike embodiment of the city in the minds and hearts of those who have escaped contemporary Patna's confines. Full of fascinating observations and impressions, A Matter of Rats reveals a challenging and...
It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores...
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Selected Letters of Anna Heyward Taylor: South Carolina Artist and World Traveler
ISBN: 9781570039454 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronicles of exotic lands and a celebration of the innovative and independent spirit of a South Carolina original
Chronicles of exotic lands and a celebration of the innovative and independent spirit of a South Carolina original
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Mr Tambourine Man
ISBN: 9781524681838 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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165,60 |
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Rafiki: Loslassen bedeutet, frei zu sein
ISBN: 9783769355482 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Three Days in the Hermit Kingdom: An American Visits North Korea
ISBN: 9780786448982 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To most of the world, North Korea remains a secretive and mysterious nation, one that has tightly controlled the outflow of information in order to groom its public image. This book chronicles a rare, regime-sanctioned excursion by a North American into the heart of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. What is revealed is often what's expected, such as the adoration of leaders, excursions to national monuments, and exposure to propaganda relating to self-sufficiency. But as a Korean speaker, the author gathered a lot more information than the scripted, regime-approved English narration...
To most of the world, North Korea remains a secretive and mysterious nation, one that has tightly controlled the outflow of information in order to gr...
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Journal of a Voyage Around the World: A Year on the Ship Helena (1841-1842)
ISBN: 9780814257333 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Around-The-World Flights: A History
ISBN: 9780786462827 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since Wilbur and Orville Wright's first machine-powered flight, adventurers have pondered the prospect of flying around the world. Though in the early 20th century the idea seemed as plausible as traveling to Mars, aviators made their first attempts in the wake of World War I and have never looked back. This history of around-the-world flights explores the endeavor, starting with the first tentative journeys that allowed changing aircraft en route due to expected breakdowns. Once flying machines demonstrated reliable performance over global distances, a period of one-upmanship emerged, with...
Since Wilbur and Orville Wright's first machine-powered flight, adventurers have pondered the prospect of flying around the world. Though in the early...
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Traveling the 38th Parallel: A Water Line Around the World
ISBN: 9780520266544 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where authors David and Janet Carle make their home. Former park rangers, the authors set out on an around-the-world journey in search of water-related environmental and cultural intersections along the 38th parallel. This book is a chronicle of their adventures as they meet people...
Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrive...
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