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Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
ISBN: 9780253062048 / Angielski / Twarda / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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439,12 zł |
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Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to Contemporary Society
ISBN: 9781907975073 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyzes the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval pilgrimages, to Venetians' diplomatic missions, to an Egyptian's account of Paris in the nineteenth century, to French artistic journeys in North Africa and to contemporary narratives of privileged resettlement, death, and dislocation.
Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyzes the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Medi...
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449,21 zł |
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New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
ISBN: 9781137457578 / Angielski / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.
This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as wel...
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450,85 zł |
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Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country
ISBN: 9781597402620 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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452,75 zł |
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Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economistas Travelogue
ISBN: 9781583671443 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved... The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, obs... |
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452,81 zł |
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A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature
ISBN: 9789004429598 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages.
A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of tr...
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453,55 zł |
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Christmas Market Nuremberg
ISBN: 9783758306198 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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455,00 zł |
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Christmas Market Montreux
ISBN: 9783758312823 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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457,67 zł |
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A Voyage Round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe
ISBN: 9781108031844 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse (1741 88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean, which ended in disaster when in 1788 the ships left Botany Bay in Australia on course for the islands of Oceania, and were never heard from again. However, La Perouse had sent back via a British ship letters, journals and charts which form the basis of these detailed volumes (first published in English translation in 1799), providing a fascinating account of the journey and the discoveries of the expedition. They provide valuable insights into...
Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse (1741 88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean...
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458,06 zł |
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Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World: On Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethnic Philosophy
ISBN: 9781108031882 / Angielski / Miękka / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Reinhold Forster (1729 98), a scientific writer and translator of German origin, took part in Cook's second Pacific voyage, from 1772 to 1775, and published this study, which records his examinations of 'nature in its greatest extent; the earth, the sea, the air, the organic and animated creation', in 1778. He drew upon the ideas of 'the most ingenious men of the age' in constructing his observations on natural history and navigation. The first half of the book addresses the physical aspects of the world: earth and land, oceans, global changes and flora and fauna. The second half focuses...
John Reinhold Forster (1729 98), a scientific writer and translator of German origin, took part in Cook's second Pacific voyage, from 1772 to 1775, an...
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458,06 zł |
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Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan
ISBN: 9780295982502 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War. In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed... George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as ... |
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459,31 zł |
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The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope: Volume II
ISBN: 9781409413509 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1693-1698, following on from First Series 82, with which the pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1891.
Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1693-1698, following on from First Series 82...
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462,18 zł |
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The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas, and Brazil: Volume II, Part 2
ISBN: 9781409413479 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The text is translated into English from the Third French edition of 1619, and edited, with notes. This volume follows on from First Series 77, with which it has continuous pagination, covering 1610-1611, the return to France. With a treatise on animals, trees, and fruits, and advice upon the voyage to the East Indies. For the first part, see First Series 76. The supplementary material includes the 1889 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1890.
The text is translated into English from the Third French edition of 1619, and edited, with notes. This volume follows on from First Series 77, with w...
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462,18 zł |
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Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, Volume One : 1844-1846
ISBN: 9780415344838 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1928.
'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... First published in 1928.
'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard 'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The... |
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464,31 zł |
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Coastal Hinterlands: Site patterns, microregions and coast-inland interconnections by the Corinthian Gulf, c. 600-300 BC
ISBN: 9781407312453 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study explores patterns of interconnections between the coastal zone of the Corinthian Gulf and its surrounding hinterlands, between c. 600 and 300 B.C. Archaeological remains point to a substantial expansion in site numbers during this period, and the growth of identifiable central place sites in connection with coast-hinterland routes. Movements through these routes are further traced through both the material record and written sources. Coastal areas acted as important gateways for exchange systems linked to diverse hinterland environments and economies, and interaction patterns... The study explores patterns of interconnections between the coastal zone of the Corinthian Gulf and its surrounding hinterlands, between c. 600 and... |
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464,89 zł |
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The Greater Middle East; Travelogue & Reflections
ISBN: 9781433179266 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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466,87 zł |
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My Nestorian Adventure in China: Account of the Holm-Nestorian Expedition
ISBN: 9780971309760 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a popular account of the Holm-Nestorian expedition to Sian-Fu and itsresults.
This is a popular account of the Holm-Nestorian expedition to Sian-Fu and itsresults.
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475,14 zł |
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Orientations: An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe
ISBN: 9789639776104 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpts from over 100 travel writings from 16th Century Pilgrimage diaries thru 20th Century impressions from behind the Iron Curtain.
Excerpts from over 100 travel writings from 16th Century Pilgrimage diaries thru 20th Century impressions from behind the Iron Curtain.
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478,17 zł |
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At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
ISBN: 9781847012227 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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479,50 zł |
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