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Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
ISBN: 9780671027568 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Fusing travelogue, historical inquiry, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, Neither East Nor West is a landmark contribution to travel writing and to cultural studies, as well as a timely illumination of a nation deeply misunderstood by most Westerners. In describing life in Iran today, Christiane Bird, an American who spent part of her childhood there, breaks the silence that has surrounded Iran's culture -- unlike its politics -- for nearly twenty years.
Traveling alone and largely by bus, Bird journeys from the modern, bustling capital of Tehran to the medieval... Fusing travelogue, historical inquiry, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, Neither East Nor West is a landmark contribution to...
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115,74 zł |
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The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet
ISBN: 9780743264211 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Every Persian carpet has a story to tell -- from the remote villages of Afghanistan and Iran, down the ancient trade routes traveled for centuries, to the bazaars of Tehran and the markets of the Western world. Carpet-making is one of this tumultuous region's few constants, an art form that transcends religious and political turmoil. Part travelogue and part exploration into the meaning and worth of these mystical artifacts, The Root of Wild Madder presents practical information about carpets while exploring the artistic, religious, and cultural complexities of these enigmatic lands.
Every Persian carpet has a story to tell -- from the remote villages of Afghanistan and Iran, down the ancient trade routes traveled for centuries, to...
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85,85 zł |
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The Hadj: An American Pilgrimage to Mecca
ISBN: 9780802135865 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to the house of God at Mecca that all Muslims are asked to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world's longest-lived religious rites, having continued without break for fourteen hundred years, it is, like all things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. In The Hadj, Michael Wolfe, an American who converted to Islam, recounts his own journey a pilgrim, and in doing so brings readers close to the heart of what the pilgrimage means to a member of the religion that claims one-sixth of the world's population. Not since Sir Richard...
The Hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to the house of God at Mecca that all Muslims are asked to make once in their lifetimes. One of the wor...
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85,89 zł |
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Expats: A Detective Sergeant Mullheisen Mystery
ISBN: 9780871134639 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Award-winning Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey offers an interesting look at the Arab world as seen through the eyes of some the western expatriates--lost colonels and aging explorers, oilmen, sea captains, even retired spies--lingering in the Middle East.
Award-winning Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey offers an interesting look at the Arab world as seen through the eyes of some the western expatriat...
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73,01 zł |
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Persian Pictures
ISBN: 9781843311690 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infused with a distinctive orientalism, 'Persian Pictures' is an evocative, virtuosic meditation, moving sinuously between Persia's heroic, complex, mythical past and its present decline; the public face of Tehran and the otherworldly 'secret, mysterious life of the East', the lives of its women, its enclosed, quasi-medieval gardens; from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan. Bell's documentation of Muharram - the month of... This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infus... |
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81,39 zł |
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The Last Tourist in Iran: From Persepolis to Nuclear Natanz
ISBN: 9781846940767 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Looks at the cultural heritage and the nuclear crisis in Iran. This work explores the history of this pivotal country: the Achaemenians, the Sasanians, the Zoroastrian religion of 2,500 years ago; the Islamic period, the Safavids, and the Revolution which dethroned the Shah and made Iran an Islamic Republic.
Looks at the cultural heritage and the nuclear crisis in Iran. This work explores the history of this pivotal country: the Achaemenians, the Sasanians...
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65,72 zł |
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Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
ISBN: 9781416569664 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to...
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, ...
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68,67 zł |
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Blood and Oil in the Orient
ISBN: 9783929345360 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this lively and witty autobiography, Essad Bey, a.k.a. Lev Nussimbaum, tells the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian Revolution in 1917, which brought him first straight through the Caucasus, then to Istanbul and finally to Berlin.
In this lively and witty autobiography, Essad Bey, a.k.a. Lev Nussimbaum, tells the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of ...
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113,95 zł |
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Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah Vol. II
ISBN: 9781850771265 / Angielski / Twarda / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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324,66 zł |
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Naive & Abroad: Pakistan: Travel in a Land of Mullahs
ISBN: 9780595467112 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner." Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News "Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, & Chaucer rolled into one." Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist "Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way." Sue Kenney, Canadian Author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim "I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet." Pieter, The Netherlands "I have been reading with... Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News. "Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind ... |
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72,80 zł |
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The Geography of the Middle East
ISBN: 9780202362960 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Much of the Middle East is in a continuing state of visible, often revolutionary, change in almost every fi eld-social, cultural, economic, political. Although time will have greatly modifi ed the conditions here presented, the author emphasizes those aspects which, being the least ephemeral, were likely to remain valid for some years and indicates the areas in which the most change can be expected. Therefore, in evaluating any change that has occurred, the reader will at least be informed of the conditions out of which-or because of which-such an event occurre
Much of the Middle East is in a continuing state of visible, often revolutionary, change in almost every fi eld-social, cultural, economic, political....
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229,06 zł |
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Naïve & Abroad: Mexico: Painted Mask
ISBN: 9781440106910 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS News.
"Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner."-Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News "Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one."-Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist "Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way."-Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim "I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet."-Pieter, The Netherlands "I have been reading with... Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS News.
"Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yar... |
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89,97 zł |
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Naive & Abroad: Israel & Palestine: Obvious Questions No One Asks
ISBN: 9781440135125 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 1. Naked Data
2. Who Are Palestinians? 3. Why Do Palestinians Not Have a Country? 4. Why Do Arab Countries Not Accept Palestinian Refugees? 5. Who Are Sunni and Shi'a? 6. Who Are Hamas and Hezbollah? 7. Who Is Fatah? 8. Who Are Jews? 9. Why Does Israel Build a Wall? 10. Why Does Israel Attack Gaza? 11. Why Does Israel Not Return Land Captured in the Six Days War? 12. Why Does Israel Not Return Golan Heights to Syria? 13. What happened in 1967? 14. Why Does the United States Support Israel? 15. Why Does Britain Side with Arabs? 16.... 1. Naked Data
2. Who Are Palestinians? 3. Why Do Palestinians Not Have a Country? 4. Why Do Arab Countries Not Accept Palestinian Refugees... |
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42,74 zł |
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781843317920 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 'Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger' is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain's involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from both female and male writers. The anthology is also enlivened by the broad geographical span covered, including descriptions of territories in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Arabia and Persia. Geoffrey Nash's... 'Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger' is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Brit... |
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656,85 zł |
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The Travels of Ibn Al-Tayyib : The Forgotten Journey of an Eighteenth Century Traveller to the Hijaz
ISBN: 9781848850064 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the eighteenth century, the academic scholar Ibn al-Tayyib made a rihla (journey) from Morocco to the Hijaz in modern day Saudi Arabia, documenting his travels in the translated manuscript Rihla ila al-Hijaz. Lahlali, Al-Dihan and Abu Hatab here introduce the manuscript, providing a complete translation of the text and a commentary on this remarkable journey and the socio-political climate of the time in which it took place. Al-Tayyib's manuscript is considered the most important reference to the author's life and culture and provides a fascinating and important insight into... In the eighteenth century, the academic scholar Ibn al-Tayyib made a rihla (journey) from Morocco to the Hijaz in modern day Saudi Arabia, document... |
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676,90 zł |
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Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
ISBN: 9780306818844 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard traces one man's adventure-filled journey through today's Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes his remarkable attempt to make sense of the present by delving into the past. Setting out to gain insight into the lives of Iranians and Afghans today, Nicholas Jubber is surprised to uncover the legacy of a vibrant pre-Islamic Persian culture that has endured even in times of the most fanatic religious fundamentalism. Everywhere--from underground dance parties to religious shrines to...
An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard traces one man's adventure-filled journey through tod...
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118,99 zł |
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Christians under the Ottoman Turks: French and English Travellers in Greece and Anatolia (1615-1694)
ISBN: 9781593339227 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the 17th century, only the most intrepid and passionate travellers ventured into the faraway lands of the Ottoman Empire. Their narratives provide a valuable but also entertaining testimony on the everyday life of Orthodox Christians in Greece and Anatolia.
In the 17th century, only the most intrepid and passionate travellers ventured into the faraway lands of the Ottoman Empire. Their narratives provide ...
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637,59 zł |
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Returning to Iran
ISBN: 9780979057328 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Iranian uprising in 2009 occured on the 30th anniversary of the revolution. This book, written from 1986 to 2008, sheds light on many aspects of the years that led to the recent uprising. The author's accounts of her travels, mostly to her native city of Tehran, reflect the complexities and contradictions that define Iranian life, culture, and politics. The articles in this collection offer glimpses into many facets of Iranian society: survivors of terror and war, women, dissent, secular intelligentsia, underground culture, and Iranians in the diaspora.
The Iranian uprising in 2009 occured on the 30th anniversary of the revolution. This book, written from 1986 to 2008, sheds light on many aspects of t...
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81,76 zł |
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Pierre Gilles' Constantinople: A Modern English Translation
ISBN: 9780934977692 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the mid-sixteenth century Francois I ruled France, and Suleyman the Magnificent sat on the throne of the Ottoman Empire. Although the two leaders were separated by culture, religion and politics, the Catholic Francois and the Muslim Suleyman joined forces for a time in a political alliance to check the Hapsburg threat to both their empires. In 1544 Pierre Gilles of Albi, an established scholar and author, arrived in Constantinople as a member of a French embassy aimed at furthering this alliance. Constantinople was then the largest and wealthiest city in Europe. Its nearly 700,000...
In the mid-sixteenth century Francois I ruled France, and Suleyman the Magnificent sat on the throne of the Ottoman Empire. Although the two leaders w...
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144,29 zł |
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How Not to Travel North Africa, Middle East, Israel and Malta and Still Enjoy Yourself
ISBN: 9781845494315 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This sometimes sexy sometimes magical but always a laugh is the true story of a 63 year old single man's 88 day unplanned "same same, we shall see" journey through Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Malta travelling 40% by Bus/Minibus, 20% by "service" Taxi, 20% by Train, 10% by Boat, 10% by Plane with the only companion a traveller needs or could wish for; "A Lonely Planet Guide Book"
This sometimes sexy sometimes magical but always a laugh is the true story of a 63 year old single man's 88 day unplanned "same same, we shall see" jo...
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114,23 zł |
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