Innocents Abroad
ISBN: 9781484004357 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime, as well as being one of the best-selling travel books of all time.
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what ...
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49,56 zł |
Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
ISBN: 9780826355911 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey. Sean Prentiss takes readers across the country as he gathers clues from his research, travel, and interviews with some of Abbey's closest friends--including Jack Loeffler, Ken -Seldom... When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ev... |
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107,15 zł |
Singapore Salvation
ISBN: 9780994244925 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Revealing account of the destruction of one woman's personal and professional identity amid Asia's cultural quicksand" Read the unvarnished truth about the expat lifestyle in Singapore Salvation. The "extremely entertaining" Jennifer Burge understands the challenges of life abroad. A professional trailblazer with a wanderlust affliction, she refused to give up after documenting the pitfalls of taking her career from the United States to Europe in her first memoir, The Devil Wears Clogs. Instead, the story continues where we left her--in the... "Revealing account of the destruction of one woman's personal and professional identity amid Asia's cultural quicksand" Read the unv... |
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64,38 zł |
A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London
ISBN: 9781473825543 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fresh and colorful look at Shakespeare's London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. Readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare's London and see the sights he saw, while learning how people ate, drank, misbehaved and had fun.
You will discover what it was like to be a tourist in the sixteenth century from the voices of people who came to London during Shakespeare's day. You will travel with them to the major tourist sights and will learn how to get about, where to stay and what to eat and drink. You will visit the royal palaces, London's famous... A fresh and colorful look at Shakespeare's London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. Readers can explore the streets of Sha...
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69,56 zł |
Traveling without Reservations: The kids grew up, the dog died, we took off!
ISBN: 9781491783955 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean and Michael Gerber did what most of us only dream of doing. They sold their house, quit their jobs, and started an incredible and unforeseen journey. In Traveling without Reservations, Jean shares the story of traveling the world with her husband. For two years, using the Greek Isles as a base, the couple crisscrossed Europe and the Middle East, learning as much about themselves as the exotic destinations they explored. In vivid journal entries, Jean chronicles their travels to countries including Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, and Israel, recording the astonishing sights and... Jean and Michael Gerber did what most of us only dream of doing. They sold their house, quit their jobs, and started an incredible and unforeseen j... |
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64,21 zł |
Traveling without Reservations: The kids grew up, the dog died, we took off!
ISBN: 9781491783979 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean and Michael Gerber did what most of us only dream of doing. They sold their house, quit their jobs, and started an incredible and unforeseen journey. In Traveling without Reservations, Jean shares the story of traveling the world with her husband. For two years, using the Greek Isles as a base, the couple crisscrossed Europe and the Middle East, learning as much about themselves as the exotic destinations they explored. In vivid journal entries, Jean chronicles their travels to countries including Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, and Israel, recording the astonishing sights and... Jean and Michael Gerber did what most of us only dream of doing. They sold their house, quit their jobs, and started an incredible and unforeseen j... |
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107,15 zł |
Straddling the 'Hound: The Curious Charms of Long-Distance Bus Travel
ISBN: 9781927755471 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Straddling the 'Hound is an account of four solo bus trips within the U.S. taken by ageing physician and road-addict Trevor Watson. Travel with him as, with open heart and curious mind, he explores the netherworld of long-distance bus travel. Whether it's chatting with outlaws and mystics on the bus, hobnobbing with Mormons in Utah, hanging out at the end of the line in Key West, or plunging into Mark Twain's Mississippi - you'll find the author's love of people, oddity and language a genuine pleasure. Hop on the bus - you're in for a treat. About the author: Dr.... Straddling the 'Hound is an account of four solo bus trips within the U.S. taken by ageing physician and road-addict Trevor Watson. T... |
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67,34 zł |
The Horse Travel Handbook
ISBN: 9781590480069 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For thousands of years we have travelled on horseback but until now no one has shown us the way.The Horse Travel Handbook, a field guide drawn from its parent edition The Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration, is the most authoritative work of its kind and contains the hard-earned wisdom gained by hundreds of Long Riders during centuries of equestrian travel. The concise, easy-to-use volume covers every aspect needed to successfully complete a journey by horse, including how to organize the trip, plan a route, choose the proper equipment and purchase horses. Traditional challenges such as...
For thousands of years we have travelled on horseback but until now no one has shown us the way.The Horse Travel Handbook, a field guide drawn from it...
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137,42 zł |
Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant: Undercover & Overwhelmed as a CIA Wife and Mother
ISBN: 9780997596304 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a young woman in Frank's class, in the bloom of idealism and spirituality, asked him, "What did your experience in India teach you? What did you learn from that incredible country?," he replied, "Always drive six car lengths behind an elephant." From Pico Iyer, author of The Art of Stillness and Video Night in Kathmandu: "If you're married to a spy, the always fraught arena of a relationship turns into a positive minefield. What does that all-night absence mean? What can you begin to say to the kids? In Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant, Lillian... When a young woman in Frank's class, in the bloom of idealism and spirituality, asked him, "What did your experience in India teach you? What did y... |
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62,91 zł |
Blind Spot
ISBN: 9780399591075 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions. One of Time's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2017 So Far When it comes to Teju Cole, the unexpected is not unfamiliar: He's an acclaimed novelist, an influential essayist, and an internationally exhibited photographer. In Blind Spot, readers follow Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm as he continues to refine the voice, eye, and intellectual obsessions...
In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Mag...
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171,78 zł |
Beat Transnationalism
ISBN: 9780993409912 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca. In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting - via letters from that period to his wife, Mellon - his own experiences in Oaxaca. Also included are essays on Bonnie Bremser, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Patti Smith, among others. Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing <... |
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94,48 zł |
A Guide to Hemingway's Paris
ISBN: 9780945575238 / Angielski / Miękka / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Retracing for modern-day visitors the Paris of "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Moveable Feast," of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound, thsi guidebook uncovers the cafes, hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, gardens, and other landmarks immortalized by Hemingway in his fiction and nonfiction. Retracing for modern-day visitors the Paris of "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Moveable Feast," of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, an... |
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85,85 zł |
Jane Austen's England: A Walking Guide
ISBN: 9781788310024 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an engaging account of Austen's life and work, arranged as a series of walking tours through the towns and countryside she knew and loved - the settings for her novels.
This is an engaging account of Austen's life and work, arranged as a series of walking tours through the towns and countryside she knew and loved - th...
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50,82 zł |
When Village With Village Comes to Parle
ISBN: 9780999544259 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,85 zł |
One Water
ISBN: 9781597099073 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,80 zł |
Madrid: A Literary Guide for Travellers
ISBN: 9781788310994 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Madrid has now overtaken Barcelona to become Spain's most visited and popular city.
Madrid has now overtaken Barcelona to become Spain's most visited and popular city.
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86,44 zł |
La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z
ISBN: 9781609521660 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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171,57 zł |
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China
ISBN: 9780295744469 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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478,20 zł |
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China
ISBN: 9780295744476 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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142,39 zł |
A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
ISBN: 9780813589695 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and argues that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities.
Combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from ...
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157,71 zł |