wyszukanych pozycji: 29
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Leitfaden zum Leben und zur Literatur des Sudwestens, mit einigen Beobachtungen
ISBN: 9789357338493 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,33 zł |
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Tales of Old-Time Texas
ISBN: 9780292780699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm of language and song, and his heart open to the simple truth of folk wisdom and ways, he movingly and unpretentiously spins the tales of our collective heritages. This he does in Tales of Old-Time Texas, a heartwarming array of twenty-eight stories filled with vivid characters, exciting historical episodes, and traditional themes. As Dobie himself says: "Any tale belongs to whoever can best tell it." Here, then, is a collection of... It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm... |
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91,04 zł |
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Rattlesnakes
ISBN: 9780292770232 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures--rattlesnakes--their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies. Here are descriptions of actual fights to the death between rattlesnakes and other animals and accounts of the strange experiences human beings have had with them, as well as tips on where to find them and how to act when you see one. Dobie began systematically collecting lore about the rattlesnake world many years ago, using some of it in such regional... Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures--rattlesn... |
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70,30 zł |
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A Texas Ranger
ISBN: 9780806129037 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas Rangers charged with border patrol under the command of L. H. McNelly. At this time the South Texas region was home to hundreds of outlaws and riffraff, and some three thousand Mexican guerrillas under Juan Cortina and others were raiding settlers on both sides of the Rio Grande. McNelly's Rangers stormed into this lawless area for two reasons, according to Jennings: "To have fun, and to carry out a set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans at every opportunity", which would gain them the...
Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas Rangers charged with border patrol under the co...
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133,75 zł |
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The Hunting of the Buffalo
ISBN: 9780803261372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1963 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gradual extermination is chronicled by E. Douglas Branch, who drew on rich materials, including Indian legends, old letters and diaries, and tales of frontier travelers. No one has ever written more memorably about the great herds, their habits and haunts, their importance to the Indians, their discovery by awed whites, their decimation by huge cultural and economic forces. E. Douglas Branch (1905-1954) is also the author of The Cowboy and His...
The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gr...
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78,59 zł |
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Straight Texas
ISBN: 9781574410976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anecdotes from Brazos River bottoms, Mexican ghosts from El Paso, comedy in folk superstitions, witching for water with the Bible, pioneer folk ways, old sayings from Texas, Irish fairies in Texas, Alabama Indian music, and tales from the Alabamas.
A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anecdotes from Brazos River bottoms, Mexican ghosts from ...
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118,21 zł |
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Texian Stomping Grounds
ISBN: 9781574410891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.
A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.
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88,59 zł |
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Coyote Wisdom
ISBN: 9781574410884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, ranging from the simplest recording of single items, like anecdotes, folk remedies or sayings, through the skillfully retold primitive legend, to the scientific, though quite idiomatic, anthropological report, and to the scholarly analysis of the philosophy of the folk. The theme and hero of the volume, Old Man Coyote, is animal and folk character. Indian legends are well represented in Coyote Wisdom, a Publication of the Texas Folklore...
This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, rang...
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108,34 zł |
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The Mustangs
ISBN: 9780803266506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. J. Frank Dobie's history of the "mustang"-from the Spanish mestena, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers-tells of its impact on the Spanish, English, and Native cultures of the West. J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964) was for many years secretary-editor of the Texas Folklore Society, taught at universities in Texas and Oklahoma as well as in England, Germany, and Austria, and wrote seventeen books on Texas and southwestern life, including The Voice of the Coyote, available in a Bison Books edition. Dayton O. Hyde is a rancher, conservationist,...
J. Frank Dobie's history of the "mustang"-from the Spanish mestena, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spa...
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103,48 zł |