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The Literary Guide and Companion to Middle England
ISBN: 9780821410332 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The author takes us through 14 countries in the heart of England, engaging us with anecdotes of local literary figures, pointing out the homes, pubs, hotels, and places (fact and fictional) of all sorts that have connections to writers, their families, their associates, their pets, and sometimes, their fictional characters.
The author takes us through 14 countries in the heart of England, engaging us with anecdotes of local literary figures, pointing out the homes, pubs, ...
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145,74 zł |
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The Literary Guide and Companion to Northern England
ISBN: 9780821410967 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The Literary Guide and Companion to Northern England" is the third and final guide in Cooper s light-hearted and informative travel collection.
As Cooper explains in the preface to the first volume: This book was written for the person who unabashedly loves travel, loves England, and loves English literature. In short, for somebody remarkably like the person I was when I began to plan my first trip to Britain and looked for just such a book. Cooper s writing project grew with his enthusiasm for his task. Soon there were several more trips to England, more months at the British... "The Literary Guide and Companion to Northern England" is the third and final guide in Cooper s light-hearted and informative travel collection.
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135,32 zł |
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Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
ISBN: 9780156035354 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his best travel pieces are gathered in this collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by the author's humanity and gentle humor. From exotic places such as Isfahan, Gambia, and Mali to seemingly domesticated places such as Australia and Munich, Nooteboom shares his view of the world, showing us the strangeness in places we thought we knew and the familiarity of places most of us will probably never see.
His phenomenal gifts as an... Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his b...
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72,96 zł |
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Snake Lake
ISBN: 9781582436494 / Angielski / Miękka / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In a circular valley beneath the looming peaks of the Himalaya lies Kathmandu, Nepal. It's a city of shimmering prayer flags, sacred cows, lavish festivals, and violent political turbulence--and a world that journalist Jeff Greenwald has come to call home. Snake Lake unfolds during 1990's dramatic "people power" uprising against Nepal's long-entrenched monarchy. The story follows Greenwald as he wins the friendship of a high lama who reveals the pillars of Tibetan Buddhism; embarks on a passionate romance with a spunky but curiously unlucky news photographer; and discovers what...
In a circular valley beneath the looming peaks of the Himalaya lies Kathmandu, Nepal. It's a city of shimmering prayer flags, sacred cows, lavish fest...
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77,09 zł |
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Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Desert Home
ISBN: 9780870715921 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silence. In this compelling collection of personal essays, award-winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places, and landscape of Central Oregon's vast high desert. In "Where the Crooked River Rises, " Waterston reveals the blessings and challenges of decades spent as a rancher and town resident in a place that "has been, and remains," her touchstone and crucible. The high desert is Waterston's teacher, and she describes its lessons with grace and care, inviting readers to...
There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silence. In this compelling collection of personal essay...
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81,39 zł |
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Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
ISBN: 9780330517874 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) V.S. Naipaul revisits the countries that featured in his 1981 book, 'Among the Believers', to survey the development of these Islamic states. He combines the ability to write great travel literature with a sharply original political mind.
V.S. Naipaul revisits the countries that featured in his 1981 book, 'Among the Believers', to survey the development of these Islamic states. He combi...
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66,14 zł |
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Kafka – A Life in Prague
ISBN: 9781906598884 / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) More than eight decades after his death, the works of Franz Kafka continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those with only a fleeting acquaintance with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries and letters, "Kafkaesque" has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence. Yet for all the universal significance of his fiction, Kafka's writing remains inextricably bound up with his life and work in the Czech capital Prague, where he spent every one of his 40 years. Klaus Wagenbach's biography provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's...
More than eight decades after his death, the works of Franz Kafka continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those with only a fleeting acquaintance ...
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50,87 zł |
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Floating Point
ISBN: 9780979357329 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Imagine running away to sea without giving up your day job In Floating Point, the author and her family seek to shorten a daunting commute to Silicon Valley by moving to a boat. This travel memoir chronicles an experiment in simplicity lived beneath the radar of suburban life as the new owners of the Egret learn the ropes and are transformed by their life on the water. JOIN THE ADVENTURE
Imagine running away to sea without giving up your day job In Floating Point, the author and her family seek to shorten a daunting commute to Silicon...
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77,09 zł |
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A Ticket, a Pack and a Chart: Episodes from a Borderless Life
ISBN: 9780983653417 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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156,54 zł |
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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
ISBN: 9780871404169 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain's version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking -the backbone of England- by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a...
The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend an...
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109,57 zł |
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The Man Within My Head
ISBN: 9780307387561 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene's work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head, Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American, examining Greene's obsessions, his elusiveness, and his penchant for mystery. The deeper he plunges into this exploration, the more Iyer begins to wonder whether the man within his head might not be Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself. Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene's work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head<... |
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77,30 zł |
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Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
ISBN: 9780415823050 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th 21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range of countries... Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mo... |
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755,01 zł |
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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
ISBN: 9780871407436 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain's version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking -the backbone of England- by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a...
The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend an...
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79,47 zł |
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James Bond on Location: An Unofficial Review & Guide to the Locations Used for the Entire Film Series from Dr. No to Skyfall: 1: London
ISBN: 9781901091564 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Britain's Secret Service wasn't always based in the imposing building at Vauxhall Cross. The department known to Bond devotees as Universal Exports has had many homes - and with J. P. Sperati as your guide you can visit them all Which villain lived in the same street as Ian Fleming? Which villain was disposed of at an East End gasworks? How did Skyfall change the map of the London Underground? How can you visit St. Petersburg in several different areas of London? How did The World Is Not Enough defy the geography of the River Thames? Where in London can you find Shanghai and Hamburg? Where...
Britain's Secret Service wasn't always based in the imposing building at Vauxhall Cross. The department known to Bond devotees as Universal Exports ha...
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55,31 zł |
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James Bond on Location Volume 2: U.K. (Excluding London) Standard Edition: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781901091588 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The James Bond films are famous for their exotic locations, matching and even surpassing the settings of Ian Fleming's original novels. But all is not what it seems (It rarely is in the cinema.) - The gold-obsessed villain's factory in Goldfinger - Switzerland or Buckinghamshire? - The hovercraft chase in Die Another Day - North Korea or Oxfordshire? - The U.S. air base in Tomorrow Never Dies - the South China Sea or Suffolk? - The chase around the airport in Casino Royale - Miami or Surrey? - Max Zorin's mine in A View to a Kill - California or Sussex? - The explosive climax of From Russia...
The James Bond films are famous for their exotic locations, matching and even surpassing the settings of Ian Fleming's original novels. But all is not...
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64,93 zł |
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The Blue Monk
ISBN: 9780984300969 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In 1983, when I was 18-years old, I encountered a community of eccentric sailors who lived in a secret anchorage on the far side of the spoil islands a quarter-mile from Miami City Hall. What I found there inspired me and challenged me to expand my perspectives. Though the Dinner Key Anchorage was often dismissed as a community of "derelicts, bums, winos and thieves," I found instead a group of articulate, capable, innovative, educated, and highly skilled people who took me in and literally 'taught me the ropes.' Many of them traveled the world, depending on little but good fortune and...
In 1983, when I was 18-years old, I encountered a community of eccentric sailors who lived in a secret anchorage on the far side of the spoil islands ...
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173,16 zł |
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Innocents Abroad
ISBN: 9781484004357 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
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In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne
ISBN: 9789042038899 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinities between the eighteenth century and our own time. In Quest of the Self offers a new consideration not only of the masquerade as such, but also of the ways in which it was transposed into literature during the period. Here it emerges as a dominant trope governing the poetics and the ideological...
In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permea...
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253,66 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
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Singapore Salvation
ISBN: 9780994244925 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "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 |
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