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Adventures to the World's Hidden Corners: The Musings of an Architect
ISBN: 9781665751254 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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356,02 zł |
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: During the Years 1799-1804
ISBN: 9781108027991 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. In 1799, Humboldt and the botanist Aime Bonpland secured permission from the Spanish crown for a voyage to South America. They left from Madrid and spent five years exploring the continent. Humboldt reported his findings in a total of thirty volumes, published in French over a period of more than twenty years beginning in 1805. This English translation by Helen Maria Williams of one important component...
The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the grea...
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357,53 zł |
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery Into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1
ISBN: 9781108038973 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1832, aged just seventeen, the future colonial governor Edward John Eyre (1815 1901) set sail from London for Australia. The farming life that awaited him laid the foundations of an enduring interest in the topography, anthropology and zoology of his adopted homeland. Following an initial expedition in 1839, in 1840 Eyre set out on his pioneering trek from Adelaide to Western Australia. The year-long adventure financially ruined the explorer, but won him the coveted gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society for discovering Lake Torrens. Published in 1845, this two-volume account of the...
In 1832, aged just seventeen, the future colonial governor Edward John Eyre (1815 1901) set sail from London for Australia. The farming life that awai...
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357,53 zł |
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The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration
ISBN: 9781108031295 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 1890) was an explorer who began his career in the Bombay army in 1842. While in India he developed his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different languages and dialects. He turned to writing books in the 1850s and over the remaining forty years of his life published dozens of works and more than 100 articles. In this two-volume work, published in 1860, Burton discusses geographical and ethnological matters, while also giving space to the 'picturesque points of view which the subject offers' in recounting his journey to Zanzibar and around the lakes...
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 1890) was an explorer who began his career in the Bombay army in 1842. While in India he developed his linguistic tal...
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357,53 zł |
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The Englishwoman in America
ISBN: 9781108003841 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A keenly observed and entertainingly written glimpse into nineteenth-century American society, by a young Englishwoman travelling alone.
A keenly observed and entertainingly written glimpse into nineteenth-century American society, by a young Englishwoman travelling alone.
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357,53 zł |
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From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel
ISBN: 9781108033688 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in book form in 1899, and reissued here in the 1928 Macmillan edition, this two-volume collection contains a series of letters and travel reports originally written for newspapers by the young Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) on his journeys around India, Burma, China, Japan and the United States between 1887 and 1889. The 1907 Nobel Prize winner's characteristic fluid writing style is already apparent in these funny, poignant and vivid articles and short stories. Providing revealing insights into Kipling's notions of imperialism and Englishness, the works also reflect the writer's...
First published in book form in 1899, and reissued here in the 1928 Macmillan edition, this two-volume collection contains a series of letters and tra...
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357,53 zł |
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Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps
ISBN: 9789004499775 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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359,46 zł |
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Türkische Ägäis. Ein Kulturreiseführer: Die Region Kusadasi mit den antiken Stätten Ephesus, Milet, Didyma, Priene und Pamukkale-Hierapolis
ISBN: 9783656663126 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Ratgeber - Reisen - Reisefuhrer, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kultururlaub im Bade- und Surferparadies Kuşadasi Das zeichnet diese Urlaubsregion an der turkischen Kuste der Agais aus. Heute geht es zum Baden oder Surfen im azurblauen Meer, morgen ins Landesinnere auf Exkursion. In diesem Buch werden die kulturellen Highlights der Region Kuşadasi, etwa 80 km sudlich von Izmir, in Wort und Bild vorgestellt. Hier trifft man auf Uberreste vergangener Stadte, Hafen oder Tempel, die von Archaologen fur die Nachwelt freigelegt wurden, und die ein...
Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Ratgeber - Reisen - Reisefuhrer, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kultururlaub im Bade- und Surferparadies Ku#...
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363,81 zł |
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Travels in Tartary Thibet and China, Volume Two : 1844-1846
ISBN: 9780415344845 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics the chapters cover: The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an... 'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains a classic wort... |
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364,08 zł |
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Florence Through the Eyes of Dante: 700 Years Later
ISBN: 9781665712965 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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366,14 zł |
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Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays
ISBN: 9780521007016 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seven essays D. H. Lawrence wrote after visiting Etruscan cities in central Italy.
Seven essays D. H. Lawrence wrote after visiting Etruscan cities in central Italy.
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369,06 zł |
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The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
ISBN: 9781107090910 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive, annotated edition in English of Anthony Knivet's 1625 travel account.
This is the first comprehensive, annotated edition in English of Anthony Knivet's 1625 travel account.
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370,38 zł |
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Carnets de doute : Variantes romanesques du voyage chez J.M.G. Le Clezio
ISBN: 9789042024106 / Francuski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carnets de doute, qui propose une lecture novatrice de trois romans majeurs de J.M.G. Le Clezio (Le livre des fuites, Le chercheur d'or, La quarantaine), s'adresse aussi bien aux chercheurs et etudiants universitaires qu'a tout lecteur amateur de Le Clezio. A partir de microlectures qui prennent en compte le detail du texte et visent a faire ressortir les champs de tension qui sous-tendent l'/uvre, Isa Van Acker examine les modulations lecleziennes de la thematique du voyage dans leurs divers rapports avec la tradition litteraire et les paradoxes qui marquent l'epoque contemporaine. En un...
Carnets de doute, qui propose une lecture novatrice de trois romans majeurs de J.M.G. Le Clezio (Le livre des fuites, Le chercheur d'or, La quarantain...
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372,30 zł |
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Agricola: A Study of Agriculture and Rustic Life in the Greco-Roman World from the Point of View of Labour
ISBN: 9780837140889 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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372,65 zł |
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Imagining the World: Mythical Belief Versus Reality in Global Encounters
ISBN: 9780897893640 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the New World encounter they were repositioned to North and South America. The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what... This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concep... |
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372,65 zł |
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Eratosthenes' "Geography"
ISBN: 9780691142678 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself.... This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the thi... |
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372,65 zł |
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New Voyage Round the World in the Years, 1823-26
ISBN: 9780714611518 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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372,65 zł |
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Travel Culture: Essays on What Makes Us Go
ISBN: 9780275957278 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel has been defined as one of humankind's primary and universal activities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays calls attention to the extent to which travel and tourism have permeated our lives and our society. The contributors introduce a wide range of intellectual perspectives through which travel culture is defined. From classic literature to travel diaries, from commercial films to home photography, this study of travel culture includes both high and low art. Travel has been defined as one of humankind's primary and universal activities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays calls attention to the ... |
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372,65 zł |
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Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great
ISBN: 9780837174464 / Angielski / Twarda / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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372,65 zł |
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The Briefcase Man: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781669877042 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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372,90 zł |
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