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Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway
ISBN: 9781560256434 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American lifethe Roaring Twentieswhen Broadway the street exploded into Broadway the legend. Charyn looks at the men and women who helped make the Big Street the most glamorous place on the planet, from Mae West to Fanny Brice, Legs Diamond to Irving Berlin, Scott Fitzgerald to Arnold Rothstein, and many more. In cinematic prose and numerous photographs, Charyn captures Broadway's vagabondage, outlaw culture, and...
In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a s...
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96,29 zł |
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Colorado Wildlife Portfolio
ISBN: 9781560373568 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreword by Chris Madson, editor, Wyoming Wildlife magazine. Featuring a collection of images more than forty years in the making, Colorado Wildlife Portfolio is a true photographic treasure, pairing spectacular images of wildlife with fascinating and informative captions detailing the photographer's experiences in the field. See bighorn rams at war in the rugged low country; tiny, highstrung pikas harvesting food on talus and tundra slopes; monstrous bull elk bugling thunderously as they succumb to the natural drives of the fall rut in timeless fashion; and so much more.
Foreword by Chris Madson, editor, Wyoming Wildlife magazine. Featuring a collection of images more than forty years in the making, Colorado Wildlife P...
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109,24 zł |
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New York City Guide
ISBN: 9781565843219 / Angielski / Miękka / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 1930s-buffs a look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost only a few cents, a room at the Plaza was $7.50, Dodger fans flocked to Ebbetts Field, and the new World's Fair was the talk of the town. The New York of 1939 was a city where adventures began under the clock at the Biltmore, the big liners sailed at midnight, and Times Square was considered the crossroads of the world.
Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 1930s...
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113,62 zł |
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Hikes Around Philadelphia
ISBN: 9781566395304 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes forty hiking trails around Philadelphia. This book features hiking trails that range from 1.0 to 12.6 miles in length, and take you through dense forests or wide-open meadows, past early farmsteads or a ringing boulder field from the last ice age.
Describes forty hiking trails around Philadelphia. This book features hiking trails that range from 1.0 to 12.6 miles in length, and take you through ...
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99,82 zł |
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Looking for Goodwill
ISBN: 9781577363743 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has there ever been good news?"" Intrigued by that challenging question, father and son Scott and Pat Price undertake an inspiring nationwide odyssey in search of goodwill. They determine to interview people in all fifty states, selecting people at random and asking them about the good things in their lives. The result is a refreshingly original study of attitudes, ambitions, and the condition of the American heart. What they find in every person is friendliness, trust, optimism, and an inherent desire to encourage others. This remarkable record of their encounters brings to life the...
Has there ever been good news?"" Intrigued by that challenging question, father and son Scott and Pat Price undertake an inspiring nationwide odyssey ...
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131,36 zł |
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Explorer's Guides: Touring East Coast Wine Country: A Guide to the Finest Wineries
ISBN: 9781581570571 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking new book, wine authority Marguerite Thomas both defines the East Coast Wine Country and conveys all the exciting developments in this fast-growing region.
In this groundbreaking new book, wine authority Marguerite Thomas both defines the East Coast Wine Country and conveys all the exciting developments i...
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82,95 zł |
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Lewis and Clark Trail Guide: With Documentation of over 400 Lewis and Clark Campsites
ISBN: 9781582187686 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Lewis and Clark trail guide features condensed daily journal entries along with 25 historic trail maps from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
This Lewis and Clark trail guide features condensed daily journal entries along with 25 historic trail maps from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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97,83 zł |
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Civil War Battlefields: A Touring Guide, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781589791817 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated edition of a touring guide that provides twelve separate tour routes embracing 22 Civil War campaigns and 40 separate battles. Forty-one maps show 1,353 specific features of the battlefields, which comprise National Park areas as well as private lands.
Updated edition of a touring guide that provides twelve separate tour routes embracing 22 Civil War campaigns and 40 separate battles. Forty-one maps ...
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74,21 zł |
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Exploring Washington's Backroads: Highways and Hometowns of the Evergreen State
ISBN: 9781591520177 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With stunning photographs and inspiring, often provocative, stories, Exploring Washington's Backroads takes you off the beaten path and into the colorful soul of the Evergreen State.
With stunning photographs and inspiring, often provocative, stories, Exploring Washington's Backroads takes you off the beaten path and into the color...
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65,46 zł |
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Led Zeppelin Crashed Here: The Rock and Roll Landmarks of North America
ISBN: 9781595800183 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bob Dylan's motorcycle accident. Mick Jagger's Memory Motel. Buddy Holly's crash site. Bob Marley's U.S. debut. Elvis Presley's first public performance. The Sex Pistols' first and last concert in America. The home where Kurt Cobain died. Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a bat. David Bowie's secret Diamond Dogs rehearsal location. Bruce Springsteen's "E" Street. John Lennon's final days. Monterey Pop. Woodstock. Altamont.
In "Led Zeppelin Crashed Here: The Rock and Roll Landmarks of North America," pop culture historian Chris Epting takes you on a journey across North America to the... Bob Dylan's motorcycle accident. Mick Jagger's Memory Motel. Buddy Holly's crash site. Bob Marley's U.S. debut. Elvis Presley's first public performan...
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74,21 zł |
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Haunted Highway: The Spirits of Route 66
ISBN: 9781885590435 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This travel guide combines the history and lore of America's most famous highway with sixty-six spine tingling tales of ghostly encounters. From spooky roadhouse honky-tonks to haunted hotels, what could be more fun than a good ghost story? Includes maps, photographs, addresses and phone numbers of all the spectral sites along the route.
This travel guide combines the history and lore of America's most famous highway with sixty-six spine tingling tales of ghostly encounters. From spook...
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56,70 zł |
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Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations
ISBN: 9781888729139 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. It includes detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions to important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast.
This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. It includes detailed...
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87,35 zł |
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An Incident of Travel
ISBN: 9781932490046 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,93 zł |
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God Doesn't Need a Passport: But the Rest of Us Do!
ISBN: 9780595464890 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Azerbaijan to Zaire, the author writes about people and places most have never heard of. In a series of travel vignettes that includes humor, pathos, information, and high drama, she shares the lives of those she met along the way. "Along the way," is the over fifty countries she has been to, through, or lived in. What began strictly as travel, in the normal way one thinks of travel, shifted to include a journey of spiritual growth. "God Doesn't Need A Passport: But The Rest Of Us Do!" is the result of this unexpected combination. From the joyous "egg man" in Azerbaijan, to a young man...
From Azerbaijan to Zaire, the author writes about people and places most have never heard of. In a series of travel vignettes that includes humor, pat...
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61,08 zł |
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With Hope Across America: A Father-Daughter Journey
ISBN: 9780595449033 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,97 zł |
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With Hope Across America: A Father-Daughter Journey
ISBN: 9780595692200 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lewis took Clark, Steinbeck took his dog Charley, and Kerouac took drugs. Bill Bryson and William Least Heat-Moon went alone. Bob Braithwaite took Hope, his ten-year-old daughter, on an 18,000-mile road trip through the continental United States. The plan was simple: to see the country together-its monuments and natural wonders, its museums and quirky tourist traps. And they did all that-lunched at the White House, kayaked the Salmon River, visited the baseball and basketball halls of fame, and booked a night in an Oregon tree house. Together, a father and his daughter experienced the...
Lewis took Clark, Steinbeck took his dog Charley, and Kerouac took drugs. Bill Bryson and William Least Heat-Moon went alone. Bob Braithwaite took Hop...
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126,76 zł |
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Belly Up to the Bar: Dining with New York City's Celebrity Chefs Without Reservation(s)
ISBN: 9781581826364 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bars in New York City are to New Yorkers what pubs in England are to the Brits. Manhattan bars have long been places to meet and greet old and new friends. Tasting the menu of New York's master chefs at the bar has a much shorter history, however. But in recent years it has come of age. 'Belly Up to the Bar' is a guide to eating at the bar in Manhattan's top 101 restaurants (as rated by Zagat 2008 and the 'Michelin Guide to New York City's Restaurants, ' 2008). Written for New Yorkers, their country cousins, commuters, out-of-towners, international tourists, and armchair diners, it features...
Bars in New York City are to New Yorkers what pubs in England are to the Brits. Manhattan bars have long been places to meet and greet old and new fri...
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65,64 zł |
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USA and Canada
ISBN: 9781857434347 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides useful statistical and directory material on the North American nations and the issues surrounding it.
Provides useful statistical and directory material on the North American nations and the issues surrounding it.
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2234,15 zł |
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What I Saw in America
ISBN: 9781843313007 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalist, novelist, poet, artist and art critic, essayist, theologian, propagandist, philosopher, and creator of the wily old Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton is one of the most beguiling authors of the early twentieth century. When asked to perform a lecture tour in 1921, Chesterton was in a slump of depression. He had recently lost his brother to the First World War and his wavering faith in the face of the horrors of the conflict only intensified his malaise. 'What I Saw in America' tells us as much about the author and his particular views as it does about his destination. Indeed,... Journalist, novelist, poet, artist and art critic, essayist, theologian, propagandist, philosopher, and creator of the wily old Father Brown - G. K... |
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83,15 zł |
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Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey
ISBN: 9780312383145 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Red, White, and Brew is the ultimate beer run across the United States, during which Brian Yaeger visits fourteen breweries of various sizes and talks to founders, owners, brewmasters, consumers, and anyone else he meets on his odyssey and who enjoys the making, tasting, and appreciating of brews. Red, White, and Brew pursues the roots of brewers who brought their craft with them from their homeland and investigates how the tradition is faring today and where it may head in the future. Covering everything from fifth-generation family-run brewing companies to first-wave... Red, White, and Brew is the ultimate beer run across the United States, during which Brian Yaeger visits fourteen breweries of various sizes... |
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83,15 zł |
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