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The Blue Monk
ISBN: 9780984300969 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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154,95 zł |
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Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
ISBN: 9781684482962 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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156,09 zł |
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In Motion: The Experience of Travel
ISBN: 9781611900118 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating, and illustrates how to avail oneself of this seemingly elusive quality--which he calls "deep travel"--on an everyday basis.
Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating, and illustrates how to avail oneself of this seemingly ...
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165,80 zł |
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The Mystery of Easter Island: the Story of an Expedition
ISBN: 9781023431866 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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171,95 zł |
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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies: A Critical Glossary
ISBN: 9781839985843 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,32 zł |
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Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (a Reader's Companion)
ISBN: 9780813575971 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places that shaped American writers' lives and their art can provide deep insight into what makes their literature truly meaningful.
Published on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation Act, Writing America is a unique, passionate, and eclectic series of meditations on literature and history, covering over 150 important National Register historic sites, all pivotal to the stories that... American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, un...
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175,60 zł |
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Nooks and Corners
ISBN: 9781023333870 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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176,25 zł |
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Hebrides
ISBN: 9781782062387 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The landscape of the Outer Hebrides, with its stark cliffs, ghostly mists and lonely beaches, has become a definitive character of Peter May's Lewis trilogy. In "Hebrides," readers will accompany him on an odyssey in prose and images, through a history of the Vikings' 'Long Island' and his own deep personal connection with the islands that influenced his bestselling work.
Travelling as if alongside his protagonist Fin Macleod, he describes the island life - as bewitching as it is treacherous - his encounter with the bird-hunters of Sula Sgeir, the savage seas of Ness and the churches of... The landscape of the Outer Hebrides, with its stark cliffs, ghostly mists and lonely beaches, has become a definitive character of Peter May's Lewis t...
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176,54 zł |
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Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery
ISBN: 9781023257916 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,56 zł |
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Gender, Companionship, and Travel: Discourses in Pre-Modern and Modern Travel Literature
ISBN: 9780367583088 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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204,81 zł |
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Geographies of Travel: Impressions of America in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781648432583 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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211,37 zł |
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Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship in Higher Education
ISBN: 9781911450122 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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215,21 zł |
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I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays
ISBN: 9781985900646 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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219,50 zł |
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Travel, Discovery, Transformation: Culture & Civilization
ISBN: 9781412852838 / Angielski / Miękka / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narratives. The essays span a range of topics from iconic ancient travel stories to modern tourism. They discuss travel in the ancient world, modern heroic travels, the literary culture of missionary travel, the intersection of fiction and travel narratives, modern literary traditions and visions of Greece, personal identity, and expatriation. Essays also address travel memoirs, the re-imagining of worlds through travel, transformed landscapes and...
This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narrat...
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224,33 zł |
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Pacific Possessions: The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts
ISBN: 9780817320942 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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224,37 zł |
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Key West Sketches: Writers at Mile Zero
ISBN: 9781958888070 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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230,39 zł |
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Travel, Tourism, and Identity: Culture & Civilization
ISBN: 9781412856768 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside their social, cultural, or linguistic groups. Whether such contact is the result of tourism, seeking exile, or relocating abroad, the volume's contributors demonstrate how one's identity, cultural assumptions, and worldview can be brought into question. In some cases, the traveller finds that bridging the social and cultural gap between himself and the new society is fairly easy. In other cases, the traveller discovers that reorienting... Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside th... |
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243,84 zł |
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Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
ISBN: 9781138547988 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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243,84 zł |
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J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival
ISBN: 9780815635451 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. His body of travel writing includes the travel book The Aran Islands, his literary journalism about West Kerry and Wicklow published in various periodicals, and his articles for the Manchester Guardian about rural poverty in Connemara and Mayo. Although Synge's nonfiction is often considered of minor weight compared with his drama, Bruna argues persuasively that his travel narratives are instances of a pioneering... Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels... |
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243,89 zł |
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The Legacy of the Grand Tour: New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture
ISBN: 9781611477993 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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246,91 zł |
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