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America Day by Day
ISBN: 9780520210677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a four-month journey that took her from one coast of the United States to the other, and back again. Embraced by the Conde Nast set in a swirl of cocktail parties in New York, where she was hailed as the "prettiest existentialist" by Janet Flanner in The New Yorker, de Beauvoir traveled west by car, train, and Greyhound, immersing herself in the nation's culture, customs, people, and landscape. The detailed diary she kept of...
Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airp...
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181,02 |
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1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, a Revised Version of 1000 California Place Names by Erwin G. Gudde, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780520212718 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the new "pocket" version of the classic California Place Names, first published by California in 1949. Erwin G. Gudde's monumental work, which went through several editions during its author's lifetime, has now been released in an expanded and updated edition by William Bright. The abridged version, originally called 1000 California Place Names, has grown to a dynamic 1500 California Place Names in Bright's hands. Those who have used and enjoyed 1000 California Place Names through the decades will be glad to know that 1500 California Place Names is...
This is the new "pocket" version of the classic California Place Names, first published by California in 1949. Erwin G. Gudde's monumental work...
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81,82 |
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Sierra Nevada: The Naturalist's Companion, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780520224889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada, originally published in 1970. A professional biologist, veteran ornithologist, and well-known wildlife photographer, Johnston is the perfect guide for a natural-history trip into the Sierra. Regardless of how one explores the magnificent 400-mile-long mountain range, on foot or by car, in an armchair or a classroom, this is the book to have. Beginning with the western foothills, Johnston evokes a vivid picture of the varied plant and animal life encountered as...
All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada, originally publishe...
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170,08 |
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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868volume 7
ISBN: 9780520232693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias--to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study...
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, tra...
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369,77 |
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Lewis & Clark: Legacies, Memories, and New Perspectives
ISBN: 9780520238220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history. This volume explores the legacy of Lewis and Clark's momentous journey and, on the occasion of its bicentennial, considers the impact of their westward expedition on American culture. Approaching their subject from many different perspectives--literature, history, women's studies, law, medicine, and environmental history, among...
Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still st...
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197,42 |
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The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
ISBN: 9780520249394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and the Portuguese colonies of western India. His journal, now translated into English for the first time, is the most important new European travel account of western Asia to be published in the past hundred years. It opens an extraordinary perspective on the Near East and India at a time when few Europeans traveled to these lands. Keenly...
In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That Augus...
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156,24 |
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Historical Atlas of California: With Original Maps
ISBN: 9780520252585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using nearly five hundred historical maps and many other illustrations--from rough sketches drawn in the field to commercial maps to beautifully rendered works of art--this lavishly illustrated volume is the first to tell the story of California's past from a unique visual perspective. Covering five hundred years of history, it offers a compelling and informative look at the transformation of the state from before European contact through the Gold Rush and up to the present. The maps are accompanied by a concise, engaging narrative and by extended captions that elucidate the stories and...
Using nearly five hundred historical maps and many other illustrations--from rough sketches drawn in the field to commercial maps to beautifully rende...
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184,56 |
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Planetary Mapping
ISBN: 9780521033732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Planetary Mapping describes the history and process of mapping planets and satellites beyond the Earth. Mapping planetary bodies is a unique process much different from ordinary terrestrial cartography. The book begins with an introduction to the differences between terrestrial and planetary mapping and continues with a general discussion of the history of planetary mapping. The fundamentals of cartographic techniques are described in detail, and appendixes on map formats and projects, halftone processes for planetary maps, and available mission data are also included. The general language...
Planetary Mapping describes the history and process of mapping planets and satellites beyond the Earth. Mapping planetary bodies is a unique process m...
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348,61 |
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Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
ISBN: 9780521036504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a background of skepticism, and it also had to find ways of theorizing the enterprise. The voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure--as noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; this study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.
In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a ba...
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274,24 |
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Geography Matters!: A Reader
ISBN: 9780521268875 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Space and nature have long been the concerns of human geography, bound up with a strong sense of the importance of place. Understanding how society changes entails understanding the geography of social change. In this new reader, the editors argue for a new way of looking at the relationship between society and its spatial organization, between society and nature, and between the interdependence and unique character of places. First, through a selection of material ranging from the changing geography of class cultures, gender relations, city structures, state power to the processes of...
Space and nature have long been the concerns of human geography, bound up with a strong sense of the importance of place. Understanding how society ch...
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381,23 |
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Sea and Sardinia
ISBN: 9780521285759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his response to a new landscape and people and his ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. Like his other travel writings the book is also a shrewd inquiry into the political and social values of an era which saw the rise of communism and fascism. On one level an indictment of contemporary materialism, Sea and Sardinia is nevertheless an optimistic book, celebrating the creativity of the human spirit and seeking in the...
Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It r...
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337,67 |
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Geography Matters!: A Reader
ISBN: 9780521317085 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Space and nature have long been the concerns of human geography, bound up with a strong sense of the importance of place. Understanding how society changes entails understanding the geography of social change. In this new reader, the editors argue for a new way of looking at the relationship between society and its spatial organization, between society and nature, and between the interdependence and unique character of places. First, through a selection of material ranging from the changing geography of class cultures, gender relations, city structures, state power to the processes of...
Space and nature have long been the concerns of human geography, bound up with a strong sense of the importance of place. Understanding how society ch...
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175,04 |
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The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names: Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society
ISBN: 9780521362092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 778 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Victor Watt's reference work comprises a completely new compilation, based on the archives of the English Place-Name Society. It reflects the most recent scholarship for all names of cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rivers, streams, hills and other geographical locations included in the Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Great Britain (1983), with many more recent additions. The Dictionary will be of interest to geographers, historians, historical linguists and language scholars.
Victor Watt's reference work comprises a completely new compilation, based on the archives of the English Place-Name Society. It reflects the most rec...
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1885,86 |
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The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950
ISBN: 9780521438148 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The final volume discusses the institutions that affected social conditions and influenced values and attitudes. Social policies were made for the most part by the comfortably off and those in power for the supposed good of the less fortunate. Contributors to this volume examine these initiatives with regard to, among others, the development of health care, philanthropy and the voluntary sector, the police and crime, professional associations and unions.
The final volume discusses the institutions that affected social conditions and influenced values and attitudes. Social policies were made for the mos...
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273,47 |
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The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950
ISBN: 9780521438155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume Two explores the questions of social structure, social mobility and class relations. Family and household, the social implications of demographic change, jobs, working and housing conditions, and family relations were all crucial elements in the shaping of group consciousness; these form the main themes of this volume. With chapters on nutrition, patterns of food and drink consumption and leisure activities, a comprehensive overview is built up on the way the social order has been changed.
Volume Two explores the questions of social structure, social mobility and class relations. Family and household, the social implications of demograph...
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217,22 |
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The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950
ISBN: 9780521438162 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The intensive study of particular localities and communities characterizes much recent work in social history. Volume One draws on this approach to present a series of chapters on the social history of various regions of the British Isles.
The intensive study of particular localities and communities characterizes much recent work in social history. Volume One draws on this approach to pr...
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301,59 |
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Ultimate Coastal Road Trips: Australia
ISBN: 9781741178258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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137,47 |
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Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
ISBN: 9780521481618 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a background of skepticism, and it also had to find ways of theorizing the enterprise. The voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure--as noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; this study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.
In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a ba...
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446,90 |
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The Narrative of Robert Adams, a Barbary Captive: A Critical Edition
ISBN: 9780521603737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in London in 1816, The Narrative of Robert Adams is an account of the adventures of an African American seaman who survives shipwreck, slavery, and brutal efforts to convert him to Islam, before being ransomed to the British consul. Robert Adams's story is accompanied by contemporary essays and notes ranking his experience in the context of African exploration at the time. The book's introduction examines Adams's contemporary credibility in relation to literary genres of the slave narrative and the Barbary Captivity narrative.
Originally published in London in 1816, The Narrative of Robert Adams is an account of the adventures of an African American seaman who survives shipw...
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123,48 |
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Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818
ISBN: 9780521607100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. British readers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries eagerly consumed books of travel in an age of imperial expansion that was also the formative period of modern aesthetics. Beauty, sublimity, sensuous surfaces, and scenic views became conventions of travel writing as Britons applied familiar terms to unfamiliar places around the globe. The social logic of aesthetics, argues Elizabeth Bohls, constructed women, the labouring classes, and non-Europeans as foils against which to define the 'man of taste' as an educated, property-owning gentleman. Women writers from Mary Wortley...
British readers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries eagerly consumed books of travel in an age of imperial expansion that was also the fo...
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302,13 |