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Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories
ISBN: 9781837582723 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,48 zł |
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The Blue Steppes - Adventures Among Russians
ISBN: 9781528704465 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,87 zł |
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Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
ISBN: 9780375727542 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation policies. Joining up with an exuberant translator named Rustam, Bissell slips more than once through the clutches of the Uzbek police as he makes his often wild way to the devastated sea.
In Chasing the Sea, " "Bissell combines the story of his travels with a beguiling chronicle of... In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced...
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97,25 zł |
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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393326413 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and unflinching reportage. Throughout, Meier captures the country's present limbo a land rich in potential but on the brink of staggering back into tyranny in an account that is by turns heartrending and celebratory, comic and terrifying. A 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. "Black Earth is the...
"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralli...
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143,67 zł |
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Warbird Recovery: The Hunt for a Rare World War II Plane in Siberia, Russia
ISBN: 9780595864225 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,55 zł |
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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
ISBN: 9780618919840 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler traveled some 2,400 miles down the Lena River, from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, re-creating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He was searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges that typify modern Russian culture.
His only companion on this hellish journey detests all humanity, including Tayler. Vadim, Tayler's guide, is a burly Soviet army veteran whose superb skills Tayler needs to survive. As the two navigate roiling white water... In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler traveled some 2,400 miles down the Lena River, from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, re-creati...
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75,11 zł |
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Through Siberia by Accident
ISBN: 9780719566646 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Through Siberia by Accident" is an account of a journey that didn t happenand what happened instead. While still thousands of miles from her original destination, Ussuriland in the Russian Far East, Dervla Murphy found herself stymied by multiple minor injuries. This book is an extraordinary story of fortitude and resourcefulness as Murphy finds friendship and culture in one of the world s bleakest, most inhospitable regions."
"Through Siberia by Accident" is an account of a journey that didn t happenand what happened instead. While still thousands of miles from her original...
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56,87 zł |
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Riding through Siberia - A Mounted Medical Mission in 1891
ISBN: 9781590481707 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author was a nurse in Bulgaria during 1878, caring for the wounded of the war between Russia and Turkey. While there, she saw for herself the plight of lepers, and decided to make a 2000-mile journey to the leper colonies of Yakutsk in the depths of Siberia. She hoped to find a herb which was said to grow there and which was allegedly a cure for leprosy. Although originally she set out to improve the lot of the lepers of India, she ended up trying to help the Yakutsk lepers, and attempted to raise funds to build a hospital for them. Even though she had the support of Queen Victoria, the...
The author was a nurse in Bulgaria during 1878, caring for the wounded of the war between Russia and Turkey. While there, she saw for herself the plig...
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79,57 zł |
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My Estonia: Passport Forgery, Meat Jelly Eaters, and Other Stories
ISBN: 9789949901548 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist and embarks on a journey that restores his faith in himself and the world. Sure, it is romantic. But it was never easy. A foreigner arrives in the middle of a dark winter and must survive in Estonia, the "least fortunate Scandinavian country," a land where people eat blood sausage and jellied meat, drink warm bread, and are always on time; a place where every family is haunted by the past and is struggling to catch up to the present. Over the...
Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist a...
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105,77 zł |
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Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia - With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of Casp
ISBN: 9781445556710 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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158,38 zł |
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Ruskie: Beers, Bears & Babushkas
ISBN: 9781456781774 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ruskie: Beers, Bears & Babushkas captures a slice of Russian life; people - and businesses - as they really are. Do they all drink vodka like there's no tomorrow? Do all the women prove their love by cutting off their fingers? Do Moscow businessmen have their rivals shot? Not all of them, but Matthew managed to find those who do - with terrifying consequences. Faster than a Russian woman in pursuit of a designer handbag, scarier than an angry babushka, and hotter than, well, watching a famous Russian tennis player in her underwear... Entrepreneur Matthew Francis arrives in Russia with the...
Ruskie: Beers, Bears & Babushkas captures a slice of Russian life; people - and businesses - as they really are. Do they all drink vodka like there's ...
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89,90 zł |
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Russia From Red to Black
ISBN: 9781780032849 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russia experienced two traumatic revolutions during the 20th century, the first in 1917 bringing the Bolsheviks to power and ultimately ushering in the era of the Soviet communist state. The second in late 1991 saw the rapid dismantling of the Soviet empire, the demise of the communists as the dominating force in Russian and eastern European politics and the installation of Boris Yeltsin as the first elected president of a reborn Russia. Twenty years on from Yeltsin's revolution, this book is a keenly observed, personal account of experiences while living and working in Russia during the...
Russia experienced two traumatic revolutions during the 20th century, the first in 1917 bringing the Bolsheviks to power and ultimately ushering in th...
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108,87 zł |
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The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852: With a Voyage down the Volga, and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks
ISBN: 9781108045438 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The British diplomat and writer Laurence Oliphant (1829 88) was the author of travel diaries and novels, including the very successful Piccadilly (1870). A keen traveller, he worked as a correspondent for The Times during the Franco-Prussian War (1870 1) and served as Secretary to British Diplomat Lord Elgin in Canada, China and Japan. This book is a narrative of the journey Oliphant made to Russia as a young man, with his friend Oswald Smith. Its publication in 1853 coincided with the beginning of the Crimean War, turning the book into an immediate success. From the splendour of...
The British diplomat and writer Laurence Oliphant (1829 88) was the author of travel diaries and novels, including the very successful Piccadilly (187...
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276,27 zł |
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White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
ISBN: 9781619020115 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the first day) for company. But Jacek Hugo-Bader is no ordinary traveler. As a fiftieth birthday present to himself, he sets out to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok, traversing a continent that is two and a half times bigger than America, awash with bandits, and not always fully equipped with roads. But if his mission sounds deranged it is in keeping with the land he is visiting. For Siberia is slowly dying -- or, more accurately, killing itself. This...
* No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the fir...
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74,93 zł |
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Astrakhan -- Anno 1770: Its History, Geography, Population, Trade, Flora, Fauna & Fisheries
ISBN: 9781933823546 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1770, Astrakhan, on the left bank of the Volga River close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea, was Russia's most important southern port through which all its trade with Iran and the Orient was conducted. Astrakhan had been a Tatar city until 1556 (when Ivan the Terrible conquered it), a fact reflected in the composition of its population in 1770: Tatars, Russians, Armenians, and Iranians. Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, a young member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, lived for almost a year in the city in 1770 and left a very detailed account of its geography, history, people,...
In 1770, Astrakhan, on the left bank of the Volga River close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea, was Russia's most important southern port t...
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371,32 zł |
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Chernobyl 01: 23:40: The incredible true story of the world's worst nuclear disaster
ISBN: 9780993597534 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,35 zł |
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Russian Politics and Society
ISBN: 9780415538480 / Angielski / Miękka / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having been fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Russia over the last decade, the fifth edition of this classic text builds on the strengths of the previous editions to provide a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of Russian politics and society. This new edition continues the work of updating and revising, as well as incorporating the latest debates about Russian politics and analysing recent institutional and political developments. Above all, it will take into account the 2011-12 electoral cycle, and examine the prospects of the President... Having been fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Russia over the last decade, the fifth edition of this classic text bu... |
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183,94 zł |
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
ISBN: 9780140455076 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Ibn Fadla-n's chronicles of his travels are one of the most important documents from the period, and this illuminating new translation offers insight into the world of the Arab geographers and the medieval lands of the far north. Based on an expedition to the upper Volga River in 922 AD, Ibn Fadla-n and... A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, A... |
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67,22 zł |
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A Ride to Khiva
ISBN: 9780192803672 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, closed to all European travelers by the Russians following their seizure of it two years earlier. His aim was to discover whether, as many British strategists feared, this remote and dangerous oasis was about to be used as a springboard for an invasion of India.
Captain Frederick Burnaby was already something of a legend. For a start he was reputed to be the strongest man in... In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in ...
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138,22 zł |
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Warbird Recovery: The Hunt for a Rare World War II Plane in Siberia, Russia
ISBN: 9781583484876 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,35 zł |
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