» książki » Travel - Essays & Travelogues
topmenu
 |
A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia
ISBN: 9781365876967 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of RussiaOs plans to annex India, the 'jewel in the crown' of the Empire. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travelers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if this remote and dangerous oasis is about to be used as a springboard for the Russian invasion of India. Captain Frederick Burnaby ballooned across the English Channel, traveled in Spain and Russia, and was wounded, and eventually killed, fighting for Britain's...
It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. Great Britain learns of RussiaOs p...
|
cena:
200,05 |
 |
Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents
ISBN: 9783956102110 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
200,83 |
 |
Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur
ISBN: 9780312158422 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, Edith Wharton's Travel Writing is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship. Wright reveals how Wharton enacted a new dialectic of tourism by reconstituting what Blake Nevius calls the 'aesthetic spectra' in her travel texts. Wharton abandoned the examples set by American predecessors such as Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who led the 'artless travelers' of her parents' day to lakes, waterfalls, mountains, and ruins echoing sentimental legends and chose to emulate John Ruskin's...
The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, Edith Wharton's Travel Writing is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment...
|
cena:
201,24 |
 |
Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa, 1855-1902
ISBN: 9781403905086 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and...
This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narrative...
|
cena:
201,24 |
 |
Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing of Africa 1855-1902
ISBN: 9781349509706 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and...
This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narrative...
|
cena:
201,24 |
 |
Travel Knowledge: European Discoveries in the Early Modern Period
ISBN: 9780312222994 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas, but on voyages to the east, and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection...
Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importanc...
|
cena:
201,24 |
 |
Adventuress: Women Exploring the Wild
ISBN: 9783791389202 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
201,24 |
 |
Voyages: Sidetracked Beyond
ISBN: 9783967041446 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
201,29 |
 |
Call of the Mountains: Sidetracked Beyond
ISBN: 9783967041965 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
201,29 |
 |
The New York Times Explorer. 100 Dream Trips Around the World From the Algarve to Xian
ISBN: 9783836584173 / Angielski / Twarda / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether it's a culinary adventure in Mexico City, a meditative train ride through Siberia, or a solo trip to Paris, get your bucket lists ready with the discoveries of Explorer, a collection of 100 dream destinations from the Travel pages of The New York Times. The writers offer guidance, from the personal to the practical, with vibrant...
Whether it's a culinary adventure in Mexico City, a meditative train ride through Siberia, or a solo trip to Paris, get your bucket lists ready with t...
|
cena:
201,29 |
 |
Journeys
ISBN: 9780195036060 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about "romantic re-visits" to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal.
Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about "romantic re-visits"...
|
cena:
202,17 |
 |
Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times by a Pakeha Maori
ISBN: 9781108039819 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published anonymously in 1863, this classic book recounts the experiences of Frederick Edward Maning (c.1811 83), an Anglo-Irish trader who emigrated to Tasmania with his family as a boy and later relocated to New Zealand. A self-styled 'Pakeha-Maori' ('Pakeha' is the Maori word for a white New Zealander), Maning acquired land and settled down with a Maori woman, occupying a tenuous position between the two cultures. Observing that the old Maori way of life was rapidly disappearing due to the increased European presence in New Zealand, Maning endeavoured to record Maori customs and...
First published anonymously in 1863, this classic book recounts the experiences of Frederick Edward Maning (c.1811 83), an Anglo-Irish trader who emig...
|
cena:
202,21 |
 |
Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain: Particularly the High-Lands of Scotlan
ISBN: 9781108069403 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724 1804) is best known for his works on the picturesque. In his Essay on Prints, published in 1768 and reissued in this series, he defined picturesque as 'a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture'. First published in 1789, this two-volume work forms part of a series which records his reflections on the picturesque across British landscapes. It traces the journey he made in 1776, equipped with notebook and sketching materials, exploring the landscape of the Scottish Highlands via...
Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724 1804) is best known for his works on the picturesque. In his Essay on Prints, p...
|
cena:
202,21 |
 |
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak To-Day
ISBN: 9781107486652 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text is accompanied by a number of photographs of the tablets, as well as of important archaeological sites and Babylonian artefacts. Chiera's enthusiasm for his subject is clear, as the text is accessibly written and contains many Babylonian legends and assesses their relationship to biblical texts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Assyriology and the ancient Middle East.
Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text i...
|
cena:
202,21 |
 |
Aurora
ISBN: 9781482865318 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
202,37 |
 |
Time Out: A journey across America and a state of mind
ISBN: 9788797184912 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
202,41 |
 |
The Last Man in Russia
ISBN: 9780465074983 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population declineand near-certain economic collapsedriven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country s long totalitarian experiment.
In "The Last Man in Russia," award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was... Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demogra...
|
cena:
203,20 |
 |
The Early Development of Irish Society: The Evidence of Aerial Photography
ISBN: 9780521089357 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The technique of aerial photography, widely recognized as of immense value to field archaeologists, had been little used in Ireland, although the relatively slight disturbance of land by modern ploughing or industrial development makes Ireland a particularly suitable region for the identification of ancient features by this method. The results of the surveys carried out by the Cambridge Committee for Aerial Photography between 1963 and 1968 are nevertheless surprising. Many ancient earthworks have been revealed by differences in soil-colour or crop-growth, and the natural and man-made...
The technique of aerial photography, widely recognized as of immense value to field archaeologists, had been little used in Ireland, although the rela...
|
cena:
203,54 |
 |
Background to Archaeology: Britain in Its European Setting
ISBN: 9780521098083 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A concise, clearly written introduction to the early past of Britain and Europe from the beginnings up to the twelfth century AD, which presents archaeological research in a readily understandable form. Written, and originally published in 1973, for readers with no specialist knowledge or the subject, a major virtue of this book is the way in which it brings into focus all the separate strands of evidence to present a coherent narrative development. The account starts with a brief survey of human evolution and a consideration of the evidence of tool-making in the Old Stone Age. It goes on to...
A concise, clearly written introduction to the early past of Britain and Europe from the beginnings up to the twelfth century AD, which presents archa...
|
cena:
203,54 |
 |
The Representations of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634)
ISBN: 9789004226784 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. It discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing industry around 1600, investigating the biography of the De Brys, the publications of the Frankfurt firm, and the making of the collection, as well as its reception by Iberian inquisitors and seventeenth-century readers across the Old World. The book draws on a...
This book deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and ico...
|
cena:
203,97 |
Czytaj nas na:
Zobacz: Księgarnia Czeska | Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty | Mapa strony | Lista autorów
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
