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The Disneyland Book of Secrets 2016 - Disneyland: One Local's Unauthorized, Fun, Gigantic Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
ISBN: 9781517269203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Discover the fun, secrets and magic at the Disneyland Resort with this independent and comprehensive history and guide book. Covers all of Disneyland Park, plus highlights of the resort hotels and Downtown Disney, and the general history of Disneyland. * What's new for the Matterhorn, Peter Pan's Flight, and the recently announced Star Wars Land? * Up-to-date menus and prices. * Essays on Disneyland Fashion and Fitness, and Disneyland Crowd Logic. * The latest trivia, tips and secrets--like why selfie-sticks were banned at the resort, why Disneyland protects its Guests from gate taxes, and...
Discover the fun, secrets and magic at the Disneyland Resort with this independent and comprehensive history and guide book. Covers all of Disneyland ...
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114,89 zł |
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
ISBN: 9780140053203 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light--these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the... An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
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61,30 zł |
What Am I Doing Here
ISBN: 9780140115772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Here is a journey into the interior of a celebrated novelist and traveler, charged with all of the narrative power and intellectual challenge of his fiction.
Here is a journey into the interior of a celebrated novelist and traveler, charged with all of the narrative power and intellectual challenge of his f...
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105,08 zł |
The Maine Woods
ISBN: 9780140170139 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone ...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." -Henry David Thoreau
Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature. He acutely observed the rivers,... "What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone ...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." -Henry David Thore...
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74,43 zł |
The Aran Islands
ISBN: 9780140184327 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The foremost account of Ireland's cultural and spiritual heritage
In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas. Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, -If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then... The foremost account of Ireland's cultural and spiritual heritage
In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The ... |
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66,40 zł |
Travels with Charley in Search of America
ISBN: 9780140187410 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward... An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey acr... |
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74,43 zł |
Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy
ISBN: 9780140239720 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) By the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing.
Gary Nabhan went to walk in old Italy like a pilgrim. . . . This is a story about moving from sad uncertainty to part-time joyousness. It is a great book. William Kittredge In part to ponder my Mediterranean roots and in part to learn of the land of my saint, San Francisco, Gary Paul Nabhan, one of America s finest nature writers and author of The Desert Smells Like Rain decided to walk the two hundred miles from Florence to Assisi. Along the way he met peasant farmers eager to share the love of their plants and... By the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing.
Gary Nabhan went to walk in old Italy like a pilgrim. . . . This is a story about m... |
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105,08 zł |
Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
ISBN: 9780140252705 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise.
In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and... A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author...
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78,81 zł |
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
ISBN: 9780140255072 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and back. He followed the trails of old explorers, encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the evidence of ancient ruins, and discovered fossils in the depths of the Peruvian jungle. Filled with observations and... A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leop...
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78,81 zł |
The New York Mapguide
ISBN: 9780140294590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Popular and portable, The New York Mapguide--now in its second edition--contains everything visitors need to know to enjoy themselves in, get the best out of, and find their way around New York City. Its colorful, informative maps are easy to read and convenient to handle--no unfolding necessary. As terrific as the easily readable maps are, however, there is much more here. Packed into these 64 pages is a surprising amount of information about the many different sights and activities to see and do in and around the Big Apple.
* A complete map of the Manhattan subway system Popular and portable, The New York Mapguide--now in its second edition--contains everything visitors need to know to enjoy themselves in, get t...
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36,26 zł |
River-Horse: Across America by Boat
ISBN: 9780140298604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. He and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some 5,000 watery miles, often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark. En route, the voyagers... The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." --Cleveland Pla...
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105,08 zł |
Voyages and Discoveries
ISBN: 9780140430738 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation describes, in the words of the explorers themselves, an astonishing era in which the English grew rapidly aware of the sheer size and strangeness of their world. Mingling accounts of the journeys of renowned adventurers such as Drake...
Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the...
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82,95 zł |
In The South Seas
ISBN: 9780140434361 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the South Seas records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9. Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, it was then ambitiously rewrittento describe the islands and islanders as well as Stevenson's own personal experiences. In the South Seas was published posthumously in 1896. Its combination of personal anecdote and historical account, of autobiography and anthropology, of Stevenson and South Sea Islands, has a particular charm. For more than seventy years, Penguin...
In the South Seas records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands durin...
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60,82 zł |
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
ISBN: 9780140434422 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects. Although it shares many of the themes in Thoreau's classic Walden, A Week on the Concord offers an alternative perspective on his analaysis of the relationship between nature and...
Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves description...
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78,81 zł |
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
ISBN: 9780140435825 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Flaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroad At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on tour," Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert's traveling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking...
Flaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroad At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on t...
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46,63 zł |
Guide to Greece: Southern Greece
ISBN: 9780140442267 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago
Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it preserves Greek legends, quotes classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost, and... The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago
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82,95 zł |
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: Abridged Edition
ISBN: 9780140445534 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the 'new continent'. The first to draw and speculate on Aztec art, to observe reverse polarity in magnetism and to discover why America is called America, his writings profoundly influenced the course of Victorian culture, causing Darwin to reflect: 'He...
One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By t...
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82,95 zł |
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780140513318 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent history and remarkable cultural development, from the founding of Memphis around 5000 BC, through the territorial expansion and flourishing trade of the age of empire, to Greek domination and ultimate collapse. Political rivalries are charted through the successive dynasties, from the strife of the intermediate periods to the golden ages of prosperity and artistic glory under Akhenaten, Tutankhamun...
From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizatio...
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98,49 zł |
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780140513356 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Golden Age of Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the atlas traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment today.
Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Golden Age of Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the atlas tra...
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96,33 zł |
The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
ISBN: 9780140513486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Now completely revised, this bestselling historical atlas includes a chronological series of more than fifty maps and accompanying text tracing the movements of peoples in Europe, the Mediterranean area, and the Near East from 5000 b.c. to the fourth century a.d.
Now completely revised, this bestselling historical atlas includes a chronological series of more than fifty maps and accompanying text tracing the... |
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67,37 zł |