Travels in Egypt & Nubia (Stanfords Travel Classics)
ISBN: 9781912081301 / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,90 zł |
An Underwater Guide to the Red Sea (2nd)
ISBN: 9781913679361 / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,56 zł |
DK Eyewitness Egypt
ISBN: 9780241671924 / Miękka / 23-07-2024 / 320 str. Książka dostępna od: 23-07-2024 |
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Termin ukazania się książki: 23-07-2024
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83,52 zł |
Egypt - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
ISBN: 9781787023451 / Miękka / 27-06-2024 / 200 str. Książka dostępna od: 27-06-2024 |
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Termin ukazania się książki: 27-06-2024
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54,02 zł |
A Cruise on the Nile: Or the Fabulous Story of Steam Ship Sudan
ISBN: 9782226488084 / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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237,35 zł |
Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions: Illi in Fifty Idioms
ISBN: 9781649033468 / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,75 zł |
Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient City [Arabic Edition]: دليل للمدينة ال
ISBN: 9789776790117 / Arabski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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161,54 zł |
Conversational Arabic Quick and Easy: Saudi Gulf Dialect
ISBN: 9781951244361 / Arabski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,29 zł |
Abu Simbel (Chinese): A Short Guide to the Temples
ISBN: 9789774169519 / Chiński / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,81 zł |
Cairo: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780195178920 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreword by Penelope Lively Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by sharp-suited businessmen compete for space with donkey carts laden with farm produce. In its mosques the wealthy and the destitute pray side by side. The largest metropolis in Africa since the Middle Ages, it was in Ibn Battutah's words "the mother of cities." With a present-day population of around eighteen million, this sprawling metropolis is home to one thousand new migrants every day, drawn to the seething intensity of a modern, cosmopolitan capital that blends together the...
Foreword by Penelope Lively Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by sharp-suited businessmen compete for s...
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284,16 zł |
Seasons of Sand Sahara: One Man's Quest to Save a Dying Sahara Village
ISBN: 9780595348572 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This travel memoir tells the true story of one man s struggle to help a desolate Saharan village lift itself from poverty and into self-sufficiency. The stuff that dreams are made of and it s all real. Kirkus Reviews Seasons of Sand entertains right through its surprise, disturbing ending, and leaves one with a sense of an exotic place and its people everything that can be asked of a good travel book. Brad Newsham, San Francisco Chronicler Frank and humorous, filled with marvelous people and the details of his own daily life, Aebi s book tells an original tale. Publishers Weekly With the guts...
This travel memoir tells the true story of one man s struggle to help a desolate Saharan village lift itself from poverty and into self-sufficiency. T...
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86,09 zł |
Notes For Travellers In Egypt
ISBN: 9780710309549 / Angielski / Twarda / 706 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This encyclopedic work on all aspects of ancient Egypt was specially commisioned by Thomas Cook for their tours of ancient Egypt. Today, it has not been bettered as a general and reliable source for anyone interested in any aspect of Egypt up until the turn of the nineteenth century.
This encyclopedic work on all aspects of ancient Egypt was specially commisioned by Thomas Cook for their tours of ancient Egypt. Today, it has not be...
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815,63 zł |
Thebes in Egypt: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe
ISBN: 9780801436932 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remains of ancient Thebes constitute one of the largest and most remarkable archaeological sites in all of Egypt and indeed the world. The discoveries made at this site, now the modern town of Luxor, are responsible for much of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian civilization. After excavating and researching the city of Thebes for many years, Nigel and Helen Strudwick here offer the first comprehensive introduction to it, one that will be welcomed by both armchair travelers and visitors to that popular tourist destination. Handsomely illustrated, the book features eighty photographs thirty...
The remains of ancient Thebes constitute one of the largest and most remarkable archaeological sites in all of Egypt and indeed the world. The discove...
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791,72 zł |
Thebes in Egypt
ISBN: 9780801486166 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remains of ancient Thebes constitute one of the largest and most remarkable archaeological sites in all of Egypt and indeed the world. The discoveries made at this site, now the modern town of Luxor, are responsible for much of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian civilization. After excavating and researching the city of Thebes for many years, Nigel and Helen Strudwick here offer the first comprehensive introduction to it, one that will be welcomed by both armchair travelers and visitors to that popular tourist destination. Handsomely illustrated, the book features eighty photographs thirty...
The remains of ancient Thebes constitute one of the largest and most remarkable archaeological sites in all of Egypt and indeed the world. The discove...
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296,00 zł |
Letters from Cairo
ISBN: 9780815608547 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When her husband is offered a six-month Fulbright grant to teach American literature at Cairo University, Pauline Kaldas embarks on a new journey - and an opportunity to return home. A native of Egypt, she immigrated with her parents to the United States when she was eight years old. Returning now with her own children Kaldas writes from her perspective as an Arab American, straddling two homelands and two identities. Through a colorful collection of letters, journal entries, essays, and even local recipes, she provides a richly detailed portrait of life in Cairo, recording daily revelations...
When her husband is offered a six-month Fulbright grant to teach American literature at Cairo University, Pauline Kaldas embarks on a new journey - an...
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86,09 zł |
A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa: Tracks Across a Life
ISBN: 9781560230076 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is the intriguing story of one woman s mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship, and endurance, which ultimately leads her to autonomy and recognition. In her new book, A Woman s Odyssey Into Africa, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein chronicles three year-long solo backpacking treks through remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa. In the process, she discovers the mainsprings of strength within herself as she follows her own drummer, finding the courage to face the darkest and most...
Here is the intriguing story of one woman s mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence in...
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127,88 zł |
Cairo's Street Stories: Exploring the City's Statues, Squares, Bridges, Garden, and Sidewalk Cafes
ISBN: 9789774161537 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic message of the continuing authority of the ruling Muhammad Ali dynasty to which he belonged, but it was not until the early twentieth century and the determination of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar that such public art gained general acceptance, and today statues stand, ride, or sit in the streets, squares, and gardens of Cairo. Each sculpture adds a piece to the jigsaw of history spanning personalities and events that shaped the city and wider Egypt...
In 1872, Ismail Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, was the first to adopt the European custom of positioning heroic statues on public display as a symbolic ...
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102,29 zł |
Cairo Illustrated
ISBN: 9789774249358 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world, its alleys, mosques, and caravanserais the original setting for the Arabian Nights, whose atmosphere is palpable still for the visitor wandering through its bazaars, while at sunset the Pyramids glow gold against the Western Desert as they have done for one million seven hundred thousand evenings past. The monuments of pharaohs and sultans lie within the city??'s reach, making Cairo and its environs an unequaled storehouse of human... Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the ... |
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91,52 zł |
Historic Cairo: A Walk Through the Islamic City
ISBN: 9789774244971 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cairo contains the greatest concentration of Islamic monuments in the world, and its mosques, mausolea, religious schools, baths, and caravanserais, built by prominent patrons between the seventh and nineteenth centuries, are among the finest in existence. Jim Antoniou takes his readers on a guided walk through the very heart of historic Cairo, among many of its greatest architectural treasures. Illustrated throughout with the author's own detailed maps and plans and lively sketches, the walk begins at the monumental gates in the north walls of the Fatimid city, follows the ancient...
Cairo contains the greatest concentration of Islamic monuments in the world, and its mosques, mausolea, religious schools, baths, and caravanserais, b...
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134,61 zł |
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: A Woman's Journey Among the Treasures of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9781906393076 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travelling by dahabiah, a well-appointed sailing craft peculiar to the Nile, and armed with sketch-book and measuring tape, Amelia Edwards carefully recorded all she saw of the temples, graves, and monuments - even discovering a buried chapel of her own- and provided in A Thousand Miles Up The Nile the first general archaeological survey of Egypt's ruins. The book is full of historical footnotes and careful details. Amelia Edwards was responsible for founding the first chair in Egyptology (a science she helped create) at University College London, and was behind the appointment of Sir...
Travelling by dahabiah, a well-appointed sailing craft peculiar to the Nile, and armed with sketch-book and measuring tape, Amelia Edwards carefully r...
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72,50 zł |