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The History of Turkey
ISBN: 9783565076765 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anatolia's cradle rocked with bronze-age brawls: Hittites clashing iron with Egyptians at Kadesh, their cuneiform curses carved into canyon walls that still echo under hot-air balloons. Then the Greeks sailed in, dotting coasts with agoras and acropolises, only for Alexander's phalanxes to steamroll through, leaving Pergamum's scrolls to gather dust till Rome's eagles perched on the plateau. Byzantium bloomed next-Justinian's mosaics glinting in Hagia's dome, a Christian bulwark against Persian fire-worshippers and Arab caliphs probing with scimitars. It was a hinge of faiths, where emperors...
Anatolia's cradle rocked with bronze-age brawls: Hittites clashing iron with Egyptians at Kadesh, their cuneiform curses carved into canyon walls that...
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The History of the Ottoman Empire: Six Centuries of Conquest, Reform, and Legacy
ISBN: 9783565083787 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,19 |
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The Lycian Shore: A Turkish Odyssey
ISBN: 9781848853126 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in mystery, myth, and legend. Figured prominently throughout history and literature, Lycia is known as home to the fiery chimera; heartland of worship for the goddess Leto; old ally of Troy; lure to conquering Cyrus and Alexander; and irresistible destination for centuries of travelers, artists, and writers. Part of *The Turquoise Coast*, Lycia now attracts more tourists to its glimmering shores than any other part of Turkey. In the early 1950s, following the trail of the ancient Persian and Greek traders, famed travel...
Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in mystery, myth, and legend. Figured prominently throughout history and litera...
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Cheese for Breakfast: My Turkish Summer
ISBN: 9780998385242 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,80 |
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Gallipoli Peninsula and the Troad
ISBN: 9788394426996 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,20 |
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A Fez of the Heart
ISBN: 9780156003933 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to understanding a country beset by contradictions. A modern travel classic (Herald Express).
" Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintesse...
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Shadow of the Silk Road
ISBN: 9780061231773 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months--out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey--and explored an ancient world in modern ferment. To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and i... |
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
ISBN: 9780375705762 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.
Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He... Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces reade...
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Blue Guide Istanbul
ISBN: 9781905131402 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of the Blue Guide to this fascinating city, which straddles Europe and the Orient and whose history goes back to the days of ancient Greece, offers superb coverage of all the major monuments Classical, Christian, and Islamic with details on what to eat and where to stay."
The new edition of the Blue Guide to this fascinating city, which straddles Europe and the Orient and whose history goes back to the days of ancient G...
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Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country’s First Century
ISBN: 9781529429985 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,62 |
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Cappadocia: Between balloons and fairy chimneys
ISBN: 9781077271654 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,21 |
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5 rutas para conocer Estambul en 5 dias
ISBN: 9781477614211 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,73 |
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Magic of Turkey: A Guide to the Turkish Coast
ISBN: 9781574092707 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Magic of Turkey is a comprehensive guide to the various coasts of Turkey. It offers practical information on all sorts of topics ranging from anchorage areas and marinas, to weather forecasts, to the local cuisine of some of the most intriguing coasts in the world. The areas covered stretch from the port of Izmir on the Aegean Sea to the South, the Southeast up to Antalya on the Mediterranean, passing through Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethyie and Finike. At the same time, the book is the tale of a voyage made by the author and his wife on their 55-foot ketch, along the Turkish coast, and their...
The Magic of Turkey is a comprehensive guide to the various coasts of Turkey. It offers practical information on all sorts of topics ranging from anch...
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Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
ISBN: 9781023187008 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Wonders of the Black Sea
ISBN: 9781838308827 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,01 |
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The Ataturk Interview
ISBN: 9781909382435 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,05 |
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The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey
ISBN: 9781350436770 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 1-3 dni roboczych |
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Innocents Return Abroad: Exploring Ancient Sites in Eastern Turkey
ISBN: 9781482392173 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eastern Turkey is a fascinating region, with far fewer tourists than along the coastal areas of the Aegean Sea. This guidebook includes essential information needed to visit those ancient sites in eastern Turkey, which date back to the thousand-year period from 200 BCE to 800 CE. This was the era when the Roman Empire reached its apex, Judaism was fundamentally internationalized, Christianity arose to ultimately become the official imperial ideology, and Islam was born. This book provides precise GPS coordinates and essential site descriptions, as well as relevant historical, religious and...
Eastern Turkey is a fascinating region, with far fewer tourists than along the coastal areas of the Aegean Sea. This guidebook includes essential info...
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Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
ISBN: 9780143129691 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Time's 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift List The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present. For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia. The history of this city--known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul--is at once glorious, outsized, and astounding. Founded by the Greeks, its location blessed it as a center for trade but also made it a target of...
One of Time's 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift List The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biograp...
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Secret Istanbul Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar
ISBN: 9782361957186 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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