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Travel and Representation
ISBN: 9781785336027 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection offers a careful appreciation of the entanglement of travel and its representations, emphasizing a reconsideration of the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and future.
This collection offers a careful appreciation of the entanglement of travel and its representations, emphasizing a reconsideration of the intersection...
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506,25 |
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Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies
ISBN: 9780718501501 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's A Voyage Round the World (1795) brings together the first published accounts by women of these new sites of British colonization. Laying the texts alongside one another brings into conjunction Britain's concurrent, late-18th-century systems of transportation and resettlement, convictism and slavery.
This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's A Voyage Round the World (1795) bri...
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512,40 |
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Aspects of Prehistory
ISBN: 9780520359734 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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513,23 |
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Abuses
ISBN: 9780520357600 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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513,23 |
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Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism
ISBN: 9781478004288 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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515,99 |
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: During the Years 1799-1804
ISBN: 9781108027984 / Angielski / Miękka / 874 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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517,07 |
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Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
ISBN: 9781108069588 / Angielski / Miękka / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Lewis Burckhardt (1784 1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. In preparation for this journey, for which he needed to pass as a Muslim, Burckhardt spent two years exploring and studying Arabic and Islamic law in Aleppo, before travelling widely in Arabia and Egypt. This book provides 'a view of Arabian life and manners in every degree, from the Bedouin camp to the populous city', but the most striking passages...
John Lewis Burckhardt (1784 1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 18...
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537,35 |
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The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780826502124 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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539,65 |
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Ancient Monasteries of the East, Or The Monasteries of the Levant
ISBN: 9780971309746 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1834 and 1837, Curzon visited Egypt, Syria, Albania and Athos in order to examine and collect ancient manuscripts. The notes from his exotic travels are collected here.
Between 1834 and 1837, Curzon visited Egypt, Syria, Albania and Athos in order to examine and collect ancient manuscripts. The notes from his exotic t...
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545,19 |
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Vermessung der Oikumene
ISBN: 9783110290929 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection presents major portions of a Berlin conference on ancient geography. The volume is devoted to questions about the shape and size of the Greco-Roman Oecumene, including its boundaries and internal structure. Building upon on analysis of different literary genres, the articles contained in this volume help to unite dispersed and fragmentary knowledge about the subject, as well as to reconstruct and analyze the different contexts in which this knowledge was generated and preserved. This collection presents major portions of a Berlin conference on ancient geography. The volume is devoted to questions about the shape and size of... |
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550,90 |
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Cross-Cultural Travel: Papers from the Royal Irish Academy - Symposium on Literature and Travel -National University of Ireland, Galway, Nove
ISBN: 9780820469300 / Angielski / Twarda / 549 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cross-Cultural Travel presents the proceedings of a major international conference on literature and travel held in November 2002 at the National University of Ireland, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy. The contributors, including such leading scholars as Joep Leerssen and Luigi Monga, illustrate the remarkable scope and vitality of work currently undertaken in the field. Cross-Cultural Travel is a multidisciplinary crossroads where literature, cultural studies and history engage with a variety of other disciplines. Topics range from the sixteenth to the...
Cross-Cultural Travel presents the proceedings of a major international conference on literature and travel held in November 2002 at the Nation...
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555,89 |
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Japan and Her People: Vol. I
ISBN: 9781138321755 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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559,80 |
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The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible
ISBN: 9781593336653 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the perennial touchstones in the field of archaeology in the ancient Near East, Albright's work has been endlessly utilized. With a freshness apposite to its position among the pioneering works of a new discipline, this contribution laid the groundwork for countless future studies. Albright deftly describes how ancient Palestine was discovered, his famous excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim, and the relevance of archaeology for understanding the Bible. In setting the stage for what follows in the archaeological drama in Israel and throughout the Middle East, this work justly deserves a...
One of the perennial touchstones in the field of archaeology in the ancient Near East, Albright's work has been endlessly utilized. With a freshness a...
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559,80 |
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On the Shores of the Caspian: Commerce and Culture in Nineteenth Century Persia
ISBN: 9781784531515 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cousin James Brant, the British Consul at Erzeroum.
Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cousin ...
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563,64 |
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
ISBN: 9780822338604 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make up a panoramic view of Japan. With wit, candor, and a lover s keen eye, she tells captivating stories from that of a Buddhist funeral laden with ritual to an exhilarating evening spent touring the Floating World, the sensual demimonde in which salaryman meets geisha and the normal rules are...
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning ...
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564,67 |
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Desert Travel and Power in Medieval Central Asia
ISBN: 9789004534872 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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572,31 |
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Looking for Chengdu
ISBN: 9780801436468 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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584,14 |
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Japan and Her People: Vol. II
ISBN: 9781138321960 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an overview of Japan in late 19th century and its history. It also provides an insight of Japanese society as it moved from the traditional Edo period lifestyle towards industrialization and explores Japan's lifestyles, customs, culture, and everyday behavior.
This book provides an overview of Japan in late 19th century and its history. It also provides an insight of Japanese society as it moved from the tr...
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584,14 |
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Club Red
ISBN: 9780801451539 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers' state and how socialist vacations should differ from those enjoyed by the capitalist bourgeoisie. In Club Red, Diane P. Koenker offers a sweeping and... The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders al... |
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584,14 |
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Penelope Voyages: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side
ISBN: 9780801426100 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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584,14 |
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