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Two Boston Brahmins in Goethe's Germany: The Travel Journals of Anna and George Ticknor
ISBN: 9780739129128 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents the travel journals of George and Anna Ticknor, a prominent American couple, from their German tours in the first third of the nineteenth century. The parallel yet independent writing of these travel journals by husband and wife give these journals a unique character.
This volume presents the travel journals of George and Anna Ticknor, a prominent American couple, from their German tours in the first third of the ni...
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Iraq and Rupert Hay's Two Years in Kurdistan
ISBN: 9780739125649 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detailing two years in the life of a British political officer charged with establishing and maintaining British rule in the Kurdish district of Arbil in Iraq, this personal account provides a thorough discussion of Kurdish society from the viewpoint of Captain William Rupert Hay.
Detailing two years in the life of a British political officer charged with establishing and maintaining British rule in the Kurdish district of Arbil...
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I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays
ISBN: 9781985900646 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Aspects of Prehistory
ISBN: 9780520308671 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780814252024 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction, " Kai Mikkonen argues that early twentieth-century European travel writing, journal keeping, and fiction converged and mutually influenced each other in ways that inform current debates about the fiction-nonfiction distinction. Turning to narratives set in sub-Saharan Africa, Mikkonen identifies five main dimensions of interplay between fiction and nonfiction: the experiential frame of the journey, the redefinition of the language and objective of description, the shared cultural givens and colonial notions concerning...
In "Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction, " Kai Mikkonen argues that early twentieth-century European travel writing, jour...
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Abuses
ISBN: 9780520306059 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Thousand Miles up the Nile
ISBN: 9780856982514 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered - if I may hope to be remembered at all!" Amelia B Edwards, 1877. A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology forever. Her travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, would inspire generations to take up her cause to support and promote Egyptian cultural heritage. This modern reprint is accompanied by a new introduction by Carl Graves (the Egypt Exploration Society) and Anna Garnett (The Petrie Museum, UCL) reflecting on Amelia's life and its legacy in...
"This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered - if I may hope to be remembered at all!" Amelia B Edwards,...
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The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield
ISBN: 9781474400152 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative scholarly edition of Mansfield's camping journal, offering new understandings of her colonial life
Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of the Urewera Notebook during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly before she left New Zealand forever. Her camping notes offer a rare insight into her attitude to her country of birth, not in retrospective fiction but as a nineteen year old still living in the colony. This publication is theirst scholarly edition of the Urewera Notebook, providing an original transcription, a collation of the alternative... An authoritative scholarly edition of Mansfield's camping journal, offering new understandings of her colonial life
Katherine Mansfield filled the... |
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Complete Book Of Marvels
ISBN: 9781648370366 / Angielski / Miękka / 642 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The King Of Saxony's Journey Through England And Scotland, In The Year 1844 (1846)
ISBN: 9781437412642 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Biografia En Un Viaje: Italia, Primera Parte
ISBN: 9781463364397 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 666 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despues de vivir momentos extenuantes en su vida, un joven toma la mas importante de sus decisiones: Vivir una gran aventura que comienza en la ciudad de Roma, Italia. Su intencion sera recorrer toda la costa Mediterranea hacia Francia, conociendo su gastronomia y cultura asi como interesantes personajes. Seducido por la belleza de los paisajes, el joven recorre mas de mil kilometros a pie, dia tras dia, experiencia tras experiencia. Pero las situaciones se complican mientras se acerca a su destino, la frontera francesa. La primera parte de un gran viaje que lo llevara a Paris y de ahi,...
Despues de vivir momentos extenuantes en su vida, un joven toma la mas importante de sus decisiones: Vivir una gran aventura que comienza en la ciudad...
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Ein Traum ist nicht genug: Kurze Geschichten von langen Reisen
ISBN: 9783746058405 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 682 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth
ISBN: 9780765807335 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to be a turning point in his life. Fifty years later, his attachment to the tiny Caribbean nation-his second home-remains as passionate and powerful as ever. Now, in Best Nightmare on Earth, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land. -Beautiful...bizarre...dangerous...exotic, a Garden of Eden fallen into despair, a tiny nation of unimaginable misery and unpredictable grace, an island where life is a kind of literature, a... Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to b... |
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Embassy to Tamerlane: 1403-1406
ISBN: 9780415758895 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 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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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: 9780415758901 / Angielski / Miękka / 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 historical,...
First published in 1931. Mainly focussing on cultural and geographical aspects, Travels of an Alchemist are unique in their importance as a source for...
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Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic 1560-1604
ISBN: 9780415860130 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1926. Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of the wars waged by the Persians during the sixteenth century considerably add to modern day knowledge of the history of the period. The book describes the Safavi rule as first established, and the system of government set up in the prime of Shah 'Abbas, as well as being an account of the long journey from Isfahan to Valladolid. Guy Le Strange's comprehensive introduction places the book in its historical context, as well as providing important information...
First published in 1926. Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of the wars wage...
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The Eastern Libyans (1914): An Essay
ISBN: 9781138010888 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1914, this is a systematic treatment of how the people whose contribution to the civilisation of the Nile Valley was for so long a source of controversy.
First published in 1914, this is a systematic treatment of how the people whose contribution to the civilisation of the Nile Valley was for so long a ...
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The True History of His Captivity 1557: Hans Staden
ISBN: 9781138867680 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The First Englishmen in India: Letters and Narratives of Sundry Elizabethans Written by Themselves
ISBN: 9781138867673 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1930. This volume contains letters and narratives of some of the Elizabethans who went to India. Here the beginnings of the British Indian Empire can be seen, arising out of the trading operations of the East India Company.
First published in 1930. This volume contains letters and narratives of some of the Elizabethans who went to India. Here the beginnings of the British...
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Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure
ISBN: 9781138862760 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As well as including Sherley's own account of his journey into Persia in 1600, this valuable edition includes the main works dealing with Anthony Sherley and his life. Original inaccessible texts are reprinted in full and the critical bibliographical introduction provides excellent guidance for the understanding of the various sources (and their merits and limitations), and the context in which Sherley's own account was composed.
When first published in 1933, Sherley's narrative (1613) had never before been reprinted. As well as including Sherley's own account of his journey into Persia in 1600, this valuable edition includes the main works dealing with Anthony Sher...
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