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The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
ISBN: 9780140513486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World
ISBN: 9780141014494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World traces the development of peoples, cultures, and faiths between the coming of the barbarian invasions in the fourth century and the first voyages to the New World in the sixteenth. This colorful atlas illustrates the sweeping changes from the fall of the Roman Empire to the birth of Islam, the rise of Christianity, and the role of Judaism across Europe. Packed with vivid maps and photographs, this atlas is a perfect guide to Europe and its neighbors in the Middle Ages.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World traces the development of peoples, cultures, and faiths between the coming of the barbarian ...
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Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days Out
ISBN: 9780141021201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music, and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, overpriced merchandise, and queues, don't worry, these are names to stir the soul. Reassuring evidence that there's still somewhere to turn in search of the small, fascinating, unique, and, dammit, British. In a stumbling journey across the country in search of the best we have to offer, our intrepid heroes discovered dinosaurs in South London, a cold war castle in Essex, grown men pretending to be warships in Scarborough, unexplained tunnels...
The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music, and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, o...
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98,70 |
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A Russian Journal
ISBN: 9780141180199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, A... Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
Just after ... |
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65,51 |
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and the Amateur Emigrant
ISBN: 9780141439464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a notebook, which he later transformed into "Travels with a Donkey." Just a few months after publication, Stevenson was off again this time crossing the Atlantic and the breadth of America in the hope of being re-united with Fanny, an experience he recorded in "The Amateur Emigrant." Both pieces are...
In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his in...
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Arabian Sands
ISBN: 9780141442075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." --The Daily Telegraph
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life--"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia,... "Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end a...
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65,84 |
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In Patagonia
ISBN: 9780142437193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through "the uttermost part of the earth"--that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once...
The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that s...
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69,36 |
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The Chowhound's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
ISBN: 9780143034414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why should San Francisco eaters limit their choices to the same old locales found in most restaurant guides? For those intrepid food fans with an appetite for new, great-tasting dining experiences, this hands-on guide to hidden culinary treasures will be a tasty morsel indeed.
Why should San Francisco eaters limit their choices to the same old locales found in most restaurant guides? For those intrepid food fans with an appe...
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104,04 |
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
ISBN: 9780143037118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia
Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, also known as Myanmar, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal police state can be described as "Orwellian." The life of the mind exists in a state of siege in Burma, and it long has. But Burma's connection to George Orwell is not merely metaphorical; it is much deeper and more real. Orwell's mother was born in Burma, at the height of the British raj, and... A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia
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Journey Without Maps
ISBN: 9780143039723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by colonization. Western civilization had not yet impinged on either the human psyche or the social structure, and neither poverty, disease, nor hunger...
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released...
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The Lawless Roads
ISBN: 9780143039730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot, that provided him with the setting and theme for one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by David Rieff. For more than...
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of Pr...
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American Places
ISBN: 9780143039747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West
"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminationsabout the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming." --from American Places For more... A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West
"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how ... |
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The Mountains of California
ISBN: 9780143105251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A stirring tribute to one of America's most remote and beautiful places by one of the first modern preservationists
This Penguin Classic-Muir's first book-puts a pioneering conservationist's passion for nature in high relief. With a poet's sensitivity and a naturalist's eye, Muir celebrates the Sierra Nevada, which he dedicated his life to saving, and recounts his breathtaking visits to Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, Sequoia Groves, and Mount Whiskey. The Mountains of California is an affecting celebration of raw nature by one of its most ardent defenders. A stirring tribute to one of America's most remote and beautiful places by one of the first modern preservationists
This Penguin Classic-M... |
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The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places
ISBN: 9780143112617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers
Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber: Russell Banks writes on the Everglades, Francine Prose explores the secrets of Prague, Robert Hughes takes us on a tour of Italy, and more. From the most beautiful gardens to visit in Japan to the best free things to do in Provence, this book is as enlightening as it is entertaining. Whether... From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers
Travel writing maintains its ... |
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Biografi: A Traveler's Tale
ISBN: 9780156001281 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1991, with communism in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, Jones journeyed to a most unlikely destination: Albania. What he found was a relentlessly bizarre world of half-truths and fictions, a world where your status and sometimes your life hinged on your biografi. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year. Map.
In 1991, with communism in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, Jones journeyed to a most unlikely destination: Albania. What he found was a relentlessl...
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The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France
ISBN: 9780156003636 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Caro takes us on an unforgettable driving tour of France, from Provence to the Loire Valley to Paris. With Caro as an epicurean, knowledgeable, and delightfully opinionated guide, we can always be sure to find the most breathtaking vistas, the most extraordinary chateaux, the most inspiring cathedrals, and the very best meals.
" Caro takes us on an unforgettable driving tour of France, from Provence to the Loire Valley to Paris. With Caro as an epicurean, knowledgeable, and de...
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73,17 |
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The Reader's Companion to Alaska
ISBN: 9780156003681 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly s footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the cruise from hell, and more. Map.
" The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glim...
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A Fez of the Heart
ISBN: 9780156003933 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to understanding a country beset by contradictions. A modern travel classic (Herald Express).
" Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintesse...
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The Reader's Companion to Ireland
ISBN: 9780156005593 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This uniquely literate guide to the land and people of Eire features choice travel writing by Jan Morris, Richard Condon, Paul Theroux, Michael Crichton, and many others, dating from 1896 to the present. Introduction by the Editor. Map.
This uniquely literate guide to the land and people of Eire features choice travel writing by Jan Morris, Richard Condon, Paul Theroux, Michael Cricht...
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100,15 |
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Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
ISBN: 9780156007139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Jose Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and breadth of the country he loves dearly, Saramago brings Portugal to life as only a writer of his brilliance can. Forfeiting the usual sources such as tourist guides and road maps, he scours the country with the eyes and ears of an observer fascinated by the ancient myths and history of his people. Whether it be an inaccessible medieval fortress set on a...
When Jose Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has ce...
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