Christmas Tales of Alabama
ISBN: 9781540205490 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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A Man from Corpus Christi
ISBN: 9780976779971 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In 1887 a Boston physician comes to Texas for some bird hunting for ornithological purposes. He finds the perfect guide in John M. Priour, who leads his Yankee friend on a 400-mile trek through bramble, bog, forest, mud, and more mud. When he returns to Boston, Dr. Peirce details his misadventures in Texas.
In 1887 a Boston physician comes to Texas for some bird hunting for ornithological purposes. He finds the perfect guide in John M. Priour, who leads h...
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206,59 zł |
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy
ISBN: 9781108004442 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he also worked on the design of parks in many other burgeoning American cities, and was called by Charles Eliot Norton 'the greatest artist that America has yet produced'. His A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States was originally published in 1856, and arose from journeys in the south which Olmsted, a passionate abolitionist, had undertaken in...
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most ...
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319,80 zł |
Walking in Memphis: 16 Historic Tours: 16 Historic Tours
ISBN: 9780764335648 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Visit historic Memphis, Tennessee, through 16 self-guided walking tours. From Riverwalk along the Mississippi River to Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, maps guide your way with photo documentation of each site. Tour Court Square, stroll the Chickasaw Gardens, visit Rhodes College and the Cancer Survivors Park, and see the legendary Graceland, where the memory of Elvis lives on. This walking tour of Memphis will enhance your appreciation of the great city.
Visit historic Memphis, Tennessee, through 16 self-guided walking tours. From Riverwalk along the Mississippi River to Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park...
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76,68 zł |
Romancing the Roads: A Driving Diva's Firsthand Guide, East of the Mississippi, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781589796195 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipity, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads not as a phone directory but more as a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes her way from Maine to Florida and west to the Mississippi River.
This compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipity, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the arm...
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81,39 zł |
To a Mountain in Tibet
ISBN: 9780061768279 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Colin Thubron is the intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writing brilliantly about them."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Thanks to Thubron, we encounter a world which, in its beauty and awe, exceeds our imagination." --Ryszard Kapuscinski, author of Shah of Shahs and Imperium New York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a moving, intimate, and exquisitely crafted travel memoir recounting his pilgrimage to the Hindu and Buddhist holy... "Colin Thubron is the intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writ... |
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77,26 zł |
Hidden History of the Mississippi Blues
ISBN: 9781540205742 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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141,68 zł |
Wildflowers of the Southeast Field Guide
ISBN: 9781591933519 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) You've seen the beautiful wildflowers of the Southeastern US. Now learn to identify them. This is your field guide to 200 of the Southeast's wildflowers. Full-page photographs and an easy-to-read format present the information that's critical to accurate identification. And the species are organized by color, so when you see a purple flower, simply turn to the purple section of the book. Wildflower identification has never been easier
You've seen the beautiful wildflowers of the Southeastern US. Now learn to identify them. This is your field guide to 200 of the Southeast's wildflowe...
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72,80 zł |
Birds of the Southeast: Your Way to Easily Identify Backyard Birds
ISBN: 9781591934080 / Angielski / Spiralna / 22 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) At the cabin, in the garden or on a hike, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Based on Stan Tekiela's best-selling bird field guides and featuring only Southeast birds, the booklet is organized by color for quick and easy identification. Narrow your choices by color, and view just a few birds at a time. The pocket-sized format is much easier to use than laminated foldouts, and the tear-resistant pages help to make the book durable in the field.
At the cabin, in the garden or on a hike, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Based on Stan Tekiela's best-selling bird field guides and featuring...
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42,74 zł |
Dishing: Great Dish -- And Dishes -- From America's Most Beloved Gossip Columnist
ISBN: 9780743267083 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This juicy extravaganza of a book is at once a star-studded memoir, a mouthwatering reminiscence about great food and great meals, and a very special kind of cookbook by Liz Smith, bestselling author and surely America's most beloved gossip columnist (indeed, perhaps the only gossip columnist ever to be universally beloved). Here, great dish and great dishes are artfully blended with anecdotes and spiced with Liz's inimitable sense of humor, instinct for a great story, and joie de vivre to produce a life-loving, sometimes bawdy, and always utterly captivating read.
As everybody knows,... This juicy extravaganza of a book is at once a star-studded memoir, a mouthwatering reminiscence about great food and great meals, and a very special ...
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77,26 zł |
Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
ISBN: 9781493019175 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A collection of 40 folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.
A collection of 40 folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invi...
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71,20 zł |
Sailing Into American History
ISBN: 9781785075674 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) THIS IS THE DIARY of a British sailboat's passage up the US Intracoastal Waterway, observing America's lifestyle, history and cultural paradoxes and written with gusto and empathy. It's a well-crafted book steeped in the euphoria of travel and ending with some sober thoughts on the demonic 9/11 attack on New York City. A fascinating insight into early North American history set against the backdrop of a boating adventure along the eastern seaboard from Florida to New York.
MOST PEOPLE EXPLORE North America from coast-to-coast. Others journey up the eastern seaboard's Intracoastal Waterway... THIS IS THE DIARY of a British sailboat's passage up the US Intracoastal Waterway, observing America's lifestyle, history and cultural paradoxes and w...
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76,91 zł |
Oktibbeha County
ISBN: 9781531603625 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Oktibbeha County is a community closely connected to its past, with landmarks coloring its landscape and illustrating its history to a revolving population of students and teachers at Mississippi State University. Beyond the classrooms and corridors is a small, Southern community with a rich and varied history, shaped by the great legacy of the Choctaw Indians, the plantation owners of the nineteenth
century, the farmers who struggled through the Great Depression, and the educators who sought to develop an institution of higher learning for the youth of Mississippi. Captured within these... Oktibbeha County is a community closely connected to its past, with landmarks coloring its landscape and illustrating its history to a revolving popul...
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171,74 zł |
African-American Life in Sumner County
ISBN: 9781531645168 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Early African Americans in Sumner County, both slaves and free, left a legacy not only of beautiful brick buildings and sturdy stone fences, but also a social history as rich and varied as the many tribes they represented. This exciting book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the immeasurable contributions, undeniable services, and the devotion of black Americans to the evolution of Sumner County's communities. Many of the sienna-hued photographs and Civil War-era tintypes presented here were taken when folks wore their Sunday best and didn't smile for the camera. These...
Early African Americans in Sumner County, both slaves and free, left a legacy not only of beautiful brick buildings and sturdy stone fences, but also ...
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Discovering the South: One Man's Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s
ISBN: 9781469630946 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely -the nation's number one economic problem, - as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, it was a fascinating moment to explore. Attuned to culture as well as politics, Daniels knew the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. On May 5, 1937, he set out to find...
During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely -the nation's number one economic problem, - as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. ...
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158,68 zł |
Kayak Fishing the Northern Gulf Coast: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
ISBN: 9780764354113 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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126,01 zł |
Southwest Virginia Crossroads: Second Edition: An Almanac of Place Names and Places to See
ISBN: 9781542419567 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Southwest Virginia Crossroads is a history and guide in 17 counties and four cities - from Blacksburg to Big Stone Gap. Journey along the Blue Ridge Parkway, the back roads, and the byways of this fabled region, where the mountains stand a mile high in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. Discover 26 lakes and 50 waterfalls - with road directions, trail directions, boat launches, fishing tips, and local folklore. Discover where movies were filmed, how the legendary Devil's Bathtub took its name, and where you can find Frog Level, Haysi, and Goose Pimple Junction. The second edition of...
Southwest Virginia Crossroads is a history and guide in 17 counties and four cities - from Blacksburg to Big Stone Gap. Journey along the Blue Ridge P...
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89,96 zł |
My 25 Favorite Off-The-Grid Places in Texas: Places I traveled in Texas that weren't invaded by every other wacky tourist that thought they should go
ISBN: 9781974438983 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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40,54 zł |
My 25 Favorite Off-The-Grid Places in New Mexico: Places I traveled in New Mexico that weren't invaded by every other wacky tourist that thought they
ISBN: 9781974437931 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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My 25 Favorite Off-The- Grid Places in Arizona: Places I traveled in Arizona that weren't invaded by every other wacky tourist that thought they shoul
ISBN: 9781974473885 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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40,54 zł |