Cfz Expedition Report: Russia 2008
ISBN: 9781905723355 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) is the only professional, scientific and full-time organization in the world dedicated to cryptozoology, the study of unknown animals. This volume chronicles a June 2008 expedition to Russia in search of the almasty or wild man.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) is the only professional, scientific and full-time organization in the world dedicated to cryptozoology, the stud...
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In Post-Communist Worlds: Living and Teaching in Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
ISBN: 9780595485192 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for a general audience, this is a book of sometimes serious, usually lighthearted, often humorous stories about life in Eastern Europe and Central Asia shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Russian Empire. "In Post-Communist Worlds" is the product of four years which professor Scheffer and his wife spent inside the former empire: in Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan; "taking life big," while becoming thoroughly engrossed in the author's appointments as a visiting lecturer teaching both students and their teachers about democracy, liberal economy, and other social science...
Written for a general audience, this is a book of sometimes serious, usually lighthearted, often humorous stories about life in Eastern Europe and Cen...
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111,98 zł |
View Of The Russian Empire V3: During The Reign Of Catharine The Second And To The Close Of The Present Century (1799)
ISBN: 9780548844236 / Angielski / Miękka / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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246,26 zł |
Back on the Map: Adventures in Newly-Independent Estonia
ISBN: 9781449503147 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year is 1992. The smallest of the former Soviet republics has recently regained its freedom following a half-century of repressive occupation. Estonia is back on the map. So what happens now? This evocative memoir vividly captures the frantic yet optimistic spirit of an extraordinary moment in time, providing a detailed and moving account of daily life in a country undergoing dramatic change just a year after the collapse of the Soviet empire. In these pages you'll become immersed in this tumultuous period and come to know a remarkable succession of real people--Estonians and Russians,...
The year is 1992. The smallest of the former Soviet republics has recently regained its freedom following a half-century of repressive occupation. Est...
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Siberia: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780199754175 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumors about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless forest, and humming steppe between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean was a vast, strange, and frightening paradise. It was Siberia.
Siberia is a cradle of civilizations, the birthplace of ancient Turkic empires and home to the cultures of indigenes, including peoples whose ancestors migrated to... Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumors about bountiful fur, of...
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Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghad to the Volga River
ISBN: 9781558763661 / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Batutta. Ibn Fadlan was an Arab missionary sent by the Caliph in Baghdad to the king of the Bulghars. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he meets on his way and gives an account of their customs. His is the earliest account of a meeting with the Vikings, called Rus, who had reached the Volga River...
This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers in w...
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120,59 zł |
Journey to a Closed City with the International Executive Service Corps
ISBN: 9781888725940 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journey to a Closed City with the International Executive Service Corps describes the adventures of a retired executive volunteering with the senior citizens' equivalent of the Peace Corp as he applies his professional skills in a former Iron Curtain city emerging into the dawn of a new economy. This book is essential reading for anyone approaching retirement who is interested in opportunities to exercise skills to "do good" during expense-paid travel to intriguing locations. Journey to A Closed City should also appeal to armchair travelers eager to explore far-off corners of the world in our...
Journey to a Closed City with the International Executive Service Corps describes the adventures of a retired executive volunteering with the senior c...
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76,81 zł |
The Sibirsky Extreme Project: Going Where No Bike Had Been Before: Into the Ultimate Depths of Siberia
ISBN: 9781456781187 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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586,82 zł |
Return to Moscow
ISBN: 9781742589299 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 he returns alone, a private citizen, aged 73. What will he find? How has Russia changed since those grim Soviet days? Tony Kevin had a successful and challenging diplomatic career, ending with ambassadorships to Poland (1991-94) and Cambodia (1994-97). He now applies his attention to Vladimir Putin's Russia, a government and nation routinely demonized and disdained in Western capitals. Why does President... Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the ... |
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144,95 zł |
A Californian's Tour of Russia: ... in winter
ISBN: 9781463574680 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do you get when you put a native, beach-loving Californian in the middle of Russia ... in winter? You get a narrative filled with subtle humor and informative facts about travels and treasures found in a country so different, and yet, maybe not so different.
What do you get when you put a native, beach-loving Californian in the middle of Russia ... in winter? You get a narrative filled with subtle humor an...
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56,64 zł |
How to Survive Moscow a Dad's Guide
ISBN: 9781542866187 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Russian Wife Handbook
ISBN: 9781468193008 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Things one should bear in mind should you want to marry a lady from the FSU. Cross culture marriages can be quite taxing and you should know some of these things before you try or if you intend to visit.
Things one should bear in mind should you want to marry a lady from the FSU. Cross culture marriages can be quite taxing and you should know some of t...
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35,12 zł |
A Handbook on Russia
ISBN: 9781482658163 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Handbook On Russia discusses the basic aspects of the country including ethnic groups, landscapes, political entities, agriculture, industry, and transportation. It is a complete geography of the country, both political and natural. "It has one of the best discussions of the different ethnic groups of present day Russia." John Tomikel, PhD, is a world traveler and was in Moscow at the time of the first free election after the break-up of the Soviet Union. His interviews with people resulted in two popular novels, Ivan Ivanov Terror in Stalin's Russia and The Incident at Natasova and the...
A Handbook On Russia discusses the basic aspects of the country including ethnic groups, landscapes, political entities, agriculture, industry, and tr...
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Literary St. Petersburg
ISBN: 9781892145376 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers who lived there. For each of the fifteen profiled writers, there is a biographical sketch focusing on his or her relationship to the city and a sense of his or her work, along with a list of St. Petersburg sites associated with the writer and the literary works.
Travelers can wander through the museum where a teenage Vladimir Nabokov romanced his girlfriend and see the prison where Anna Akhmatova was inspired to write her poem about the Great Terror. They can find the statue... Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers who lived there. For each of the fifte...
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The Companion Guide to St Petersburg
ISBN: 9781900639408 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Companion Guide to St Petersburg was first published in spring 2003 to coincide with the tercentenary of the founding of the city.Most visitors to St Petersburg have heard at least four facts about it: that it is 'the Venice of the North'; that a vast number of workmen, perhaps a hundred thousand, died in the early years of its construction; that it was built on uninhabited marshes; and that it was founded on territory which did not and never had belonged to Russia. These 'facts' have one feature in common: none of them is true. Few people can say this with more authority that Kyril...
The Companion Guide to St Petersburg was first published in spring 2003 to coincide with the tercentenary of the founding of the city.Most visitors to...
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From Paris to New York by Land
ISBN: 9783955803599 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harry de Windt (1856-1933) war ein franzosische-britischer Entdecker und Schriftsteller. Er unternahm lange Reisen uber den gesamten Globus und schrieb seine Erfahrungen nider. In dem vorliegenden Buch aus dem Jahre 1903 geht es um seine Reise von Europa nach Amerika, auf der er versuchte herauszufinden, inwieweit es moglich ware, eine Eisenbahnlinie zu konstruieren, die Paris und New York miteinander verbindet. Auch aus heutiger Sicht handelt es sich dabei immer noch um eine faszinierende Vorstellung. Dieses Buch liegt hier in englischer Sprache vor.
Harry de Windt (1856-1933) war ein franzosische-britischer Entdecker und Schriftsteller. Er unternahm lange Reisen uber den gesamten Globus und schrie...
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Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary: From the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka
ISBN: 9781108072267 / Angielski / Miękka / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Dundas Cochrane (1780-1825) was destined for the sea from an early age, but is best remembered as 'the Pedestrian Traveller'. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he set out on a six-year tour of France, Spain and Portugal on foot. When in 1820 the Admiralty turned down his offer to explore the river Niger, he decided instead to walk round the world via Russia, Siberia and North America. On his arrival in St Petersburg, the Russian government gave him money to continue his journey using sledges and canoes where necessary, but he abandoned it in Kamchatka, marrying a local woman and...
John Dundas Cochrane (1780-1825) was destined for the sea from an early age, but is best remembered as 'the Pedestrian Traveller'. At the end of the N...
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361,54 zł |
From Paris to New York by Land
ISBN: 9783956560262 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sochi 2014 Travel Guide: Making the most of your visit to Sochi and the Olympic Games.
ISBN: 9781492912507 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sochi 2014 Travel Guide lets you make the most of your visit to Sochi and the Olympic Games. Sochi is a great resort at the coast of the Black Sea which enjoys the best of two worlds: sunny beaches in a sub-tropical climate and eternal snow in beautiful mountains. In preparation of the Olympics, the infrastructure of Sochi was redeveloped and now provides world class transportation and accommodation facilities. This guide covers everything you need to know: travel, hotels, the new airport, public transport, sight seeing, maps, skiing slopes, bars, restaurants and more. It also covers the...
The Sochi 2014 Travel Guide lets you make the most of your visit to Sochi and the Olympic Games. Sochi is a great resort at the coast of the Black Sea...
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Sochi 2014: Guide and travel tips to my hometown Culture, Art, Food and Hidden Jewels
ISBN: 9780615940434 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sochi 2014, Guide and travel tips to my hometown" is a highly recommended guide to Russia's premier vacation spot and now the Olympic Winter Games 2014 capital. The very descriptive guide supplies a traveler with many useful facts, photos, suggestions and tips for even the most curious visitor including: -Recommended places where to explore, hike, sight-see, or just take a pleasant stroll -Suggested local cuisine and specialties in highly recommended restaurants, bars and cafes in various price ranges -Descriptive guide to many of Sochi's museums, galleries, outdoor art and local artists...
"Sochi 2014, Guide and travel tips to my hometown" is a highly recommended guide to Russia's premier vacation spot and now the Olympic Winter Games 20...
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162,90 zł |