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Embassy to Tamerlane : 1403-1406
ISBN: 9780415344890 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Clavijo was so keen and intelligent an observer and so lively a retailer of travel gossip that this is a very welcome addition to the series.' New Statesman
Covering thousands of miles, Clavijo's epic journey began and ended in Cadiz taking in Rhodes, Constantinople, the Black Sea, and Central Asia. Guy Le Strange's extensive introduction gives excellent historical and political background for the account and the material is supplemented with seven maps and plans. 'Clavijo was so keen and intelligent an observer and so lively a retailer of travel gossip that this is a very welcome addition to the series.' New St...
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1284,29 zł |
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An Account of Tibet : The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J. 1712- 1727
ISBN: 9780415346788 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1932.
As well as an extensive introduction, this edition contains notes to all four books, a bibliographical index, a general index and an index of Tibetan words. The introduction is particularly valuable in that it sets the importance of Desideri's mission in the general context of the Jesuit Missions to Tibet. In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the natural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the people and a complete exposition of Lamaism. His is the only complete reconstruction that we possess... First published in 1932.
As well as an extensive introduction, this edition contains notes to all four books, a bibliographical index, a general in... |
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1284,29 zł |
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Exploration of the South Seas in the Eighteenth Century: Rediscovered Accounts
ISBN: 9781848930704 / Angielski / Twarda / 850 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields. These navigators and their texts were instrumental in spurring on further exploration, annexation and ultimately colonisation of the Pacific territories in the space of only a few decades. This series will present new sources and primary texts in English, paving the way for postcolonial critical approaches in which the reporting, writing, rewriting and translating of Empire and the Other takes precedence over the safeguarding of master... The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous field... |
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1284,29 zł |
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The Travels of an Alchemist : The Journey of the Taoist Ch'ang-Ch'un from China to the Hundukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan
ISBN: 9780415344906 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1931.
Mainly focussing on cultural and geographical aspects, Travels of an Alchemist are unique in their importance as a source for early Mongol history, enabling us as they do to fix with certainty the otherwise obscure and much disputed dates of Chingiz Khan's movements during his Western campaign. The author, a Taoist doctor, left some of the most faithful and vivid pictures ever drawn of nature and society between the Aral and the Yellow Sea. Waley's introduction provides excellent background information with which to place the Travels in their appropriate... First published in 1931.
Mainly focussing on cultural and geographical aspects, Travels of an Alchemist are unique in their importance as a source... |
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1335,65 zł |
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Von Baltistan zum Hindukusch. Ein Reisebericht aus Pakistan
ISBN: 9783668714663 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 802 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1494,55 zł |
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The Nile and Egyptian Civilization
ISBN: 9780415155861 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published between 1920-70, the aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: Prehistory and Historical Ethnography set of 12: 0-415-15611-4 (u800); Greek Civilization set of 7: 0-415-15612-2 (u450); Roman Civilization set of 6: 0-415-15613-0 (u400); Eastern Civilizations set of 10: 0-415-15614-9 (u650); Judaeo-Christian Civilization set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: (u250); European Civilization set...
Originally published between 1920-70, the aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of histori...
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1541,14 zł |
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Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, PT.1, V.1-3
ISBN: 9781851968626 / Angielski / Twarda / 1008 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A seven-volume facsimile set which comprises accounts of France in the 1790s. The texts are drawn from the Chawton House Library collection.
A seven-volume facsimile set which comprises accounts of France in the 1790s. The texts are drawn from the Chawton House Library collection.
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1541,14 zł |
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The Aegean Civilization
ISBN: 9780415155731 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published between 1920-70, the History of Civilization was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: Prehistory and Historical Ethnography set of 12 (0-415-15611-4, u800); Greek Civilization set of 7 (0-415-15612-2, u450); Roman Civilization set of 6 (0-415-15613-0, u400);...
Originally published between 1920-70, the History of Civilization was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of...
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1541,14 zł |
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Women's Travel Writings in Scotland: 'Letters from the Mountains' by Anne Grant and 'Letters from the North Highlands' by Elizabeth Isabella Spence
ISBN: 9781848931473 / Angielski / Twarda / 722 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne Grant s "Letters from the Mountains "(1806), one of the Romantic era s most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands, and Elizabeth Isabella Spence s "Letters from the North Highlands "(1816), a work that, while influenced by Grant s "Letters," attempted to move the genre of the Scottish travelogue in new directions. Read together, these volumes offer complementary views of Scottish Highland life at a time of major historical transition: Grant was offering outsiders her perspective as a long-time resident... This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne Grant s "Letters from the Mountains "(1806), one of the Romantic era s most succe... |
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1926,42 zł |
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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II (Set): Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910
ISBN: 9781851967612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature serv...
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1926,42 zł |
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The Roman Spirit - In Religion, Thought and Art
ISBN: 9780415155823 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published between 1920-70, the aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: Prehistory and Historical Ethnography set of 12: 0-415-15611-4 (u800); Greek Civilization set of 7: 0-415-15612-2 (u450); Roman Civilization set of 6: 0-415-15613-0 (u400); Eastern Civilizations set of 10: 0-415-15614-9 (u650); Judaeo-Christian Civilization set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: (u250); European Civilization set...
Originally published between 1920-70, the aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of histori...
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2054,85 zł |
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Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part I: Travel Writings on North America, the Far East, North and South Poles and the Middle East
ISBN: 9781851967209 / Angielski / Twarda / 1880 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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2568,56 zł |
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Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9781579582470 / Angielski / Twarda / 1350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles,...
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, ...
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2568,56 zł |
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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I (Set): Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910
ISBN: 9781851967605 / Angielski / Twarda / 1880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature serv...
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2568,56 zł |
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Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, PT.2, V.1-4
ISBN: 9781851968664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.
Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which...
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2696,99 zł |
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The Travel Writings of John Moore
ISBN: 9781848930995 / Angielski / Twarda / 1520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Moore (1729-1802) was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these travels. He records his encounters with Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Pope, along with other notable figures, and gives a first-hand account of the September Massacres and the downfall of the French monarchy during the Revolution. His work brought him international fame. He became friends with Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Robert Burns and won the admiration of Lord Byron and Maria Edgeworth. Later, Thomas Carlyle used Moore as a...
John Moore (1729-1802) was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these travels. He records his encoun...
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2696,99 zł |
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Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II
ISBN: 9781851969876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women's history.
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The tex...
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3339,14 zł |
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Indian Travel Writing, 1830-1947
ISBN: 9781138811171 / Angielski / Twarda / 1800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily available travel writing produced by imperial subjects themselves has long been apparent, and this anthology addresses that lack. A veritable treasure-trove, it brings together scarce documents which are currently widely dispersed or very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use. The collection confirms the deeply cosmopolitan sensibility possessed by many Indian travellers, and their... Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily avai... |
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6164,55 zł |
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Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1850
ISBN: 9780415320344 / Angielski / Twarda / 3094 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises. Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria s ascendancy to the throne, and featuring journeys spanning France and central Europe, India, and South America, this collection brings together some of the most interesting travel accounts... The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. The... |
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7448,84 zł |