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India in Mind
ISBN: 9780375727450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the world s second most populous nation over the past two centuries.
From Mark Twain s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs, to Allen Ginsberg s awe at the country s spiritual and natural splendors, or from J. R. Ackerley s delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, to Gore Vidal s unforgettable scene... Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This supe...
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81,20 zł |
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
ISBN: 9780375727542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation policies. Joining up with an exuberant translator named Rustam, Bissell slips more than once through the clutches of the Uzbek police as he makes his often wild way to the devastated sea.
In Chasing the Sea, " "Bissell combines the story of his travels with a beguiling chronicle of... In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced...
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94,02 zł |
Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
ISBN: 9780375727863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious.
Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting,... In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to e...
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76,92 zł |
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
ISBN: 9780375757549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes of the Hadhramaut Valley, the most fertile in Arabia, she sought to be the first Westerner to locate and document the lost city of Shabwa. Chronicling her journey through the towns and encampments of the Hadhramaut, The Southern Gates of Arabia is a tale alive with sheikhs and sultans, tragedy and triumph. Although the...
In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwat...
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81,20 zł |
Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia
ISBN: 9780375759437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland's extraordinary gifts for portraiture--his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide--Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and unparalleled elegy from one of the finest writers of our time.
In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing ev...
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81,20 zł |
Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
ISBN: 9780380713806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe--in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously familiar to readers of Bryson's A Walk in the Woods). Twenty years later, he decided to retrace his journey. The result is the affectionate and riotously funny Neither Here Nor There. In the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe--in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable s... |
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81,15 zł |
Notes from a Small Island
ISBN: 9780380727506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes From a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes From a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled fl... |
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72,61 zł |
When in Rome
ISBN: 9780385486477 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lighthearted and altogether fascinating, When in Rome is a delightful backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. With his wife and three young sons, Robert Hutchinson moved to Rome shortly before his thirty-ninth birthday, intending to explore the Vatican in depth. He sought to capture -the personality of the place: the smells and the traffic, the rich delicacies of Roman food, the perils of the Italian language, the way Italian monsignori push their way to the front of the line, just like their lay countrymen.- When in Rome is the extraordinary...
Lighthearted and altogether fascinating, When in Rome is a delightful backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric citie...
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81,20 zł |
Into the Wild
ISBN: 9780385486804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a...
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Chris...
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68,38 zł |
Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan
ISBN: 9780385497145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 421 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan s waterfront are both celebrated and secret hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a part of the city s soul.
A native New Yorker, Lopate has embraced Manhattan by walking every inch of its perimeter, telling stories on the way of pirates (Captain Kidd) and power brokers (Robert Moses), the lowly shipworm and Typhoid Mary, public housing in Harlem and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He... East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan s waterfront are both celebrated and secret hidden...
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89,74 zł |
Travels with Ted & Ned
ISBN: 9780385511261 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The warm and moving story of one of the greatest religious and secular leaders of our time.
..".the riveting story of an incredible man who made an enormous impact on history and lived his dream." --Ann Landers The warm and moving story of one of the greatest religious and secular leaders of our time.
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81,20 zł |
Red Dust: A Path Through China
ISBN: 9780385720236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for Spiritual Pollution, and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight...
In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, f...
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85,47 zł |
The Hellenistic Age: Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization
ISBN: 9780393005448 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In "the Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization," J.B. Bury discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and geography; the pattern of the hellenization of Rome; and changing Greek ideas of barbarianism and cosmopolitanism.
E. A. Barber's essay, "Alexandrian Literature," deals with the characteristic styles of the period, Alexandrian poetry, and the new prose forms. Besides the scientific and learned writing it is known for, Professor Barber demonstrates, the age produced much popular satiric and moralizing poetry, realistic mime, epigrams, and parodies. As the... In "the Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization," J.B. Bury discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and geography; the patter...
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80,99 zł |
The Great Beach
ISBN: 9780393009835 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cape Cod's vast outer coast, named The Great Beach by Henry David Thoreau, is little changed since the Pilgrim's first landfall almost 350 years ago. Today a plane can skim its fifty miles in a matter of seconds, and in the summer bathing areas are so crowded with cars and people they take on a continental flavor. But the long, desolate, windswept stretches can still be found, and the National Park Service has been taking steps to preserve the original character of the beach and its rolling dunes back from the water, designating it a National Seashore.
Cape Cod's vast outer coast, named The Great Beach by Henry David Thoreau, is little changed since the Pilgrim's first landfall almost 350 years ago. ...
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80,99 zł |
Kings and Philosophers, 1689-1789
ISBN: 9780393099058 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These years also encompassed the birth, maturation, and waning of the Enlightenment. Leonard Krieger shows how the monarchical tradition and the new intellectual developments were reflected in the latter half of the period during the rule of "philosopher kings," the enlightened absolutists. He analyses, too, the origins of a movement toward representative government and the stirrings of political and social revolt that would bring the period to an abrupt end.
These years also encompassed the birth, maturation, and waning of the Enlightenment. Leonard Krieger shows how the monarchical tradition and the new i...
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175,64 zł |
America's Art Museums: A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small
ISBN: 9780393320060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Much more than a simply practical guide, this book is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic tour not only of this country's great museums but also of the history of art in America. Suzanne Loebl is the perfect, passionate companion, as she takes you from the august halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the intimate galleries of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, from the breathtaking gardens surrounding the Huntington in San Marino, California, to the Hispanic Heritage Wing of the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She gives you a tour of the physical space...
Much more than a simply practical guide, this book is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic tour not only of this country's great museums but also of the h...
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128,00 zł |
Outside Magazine's Urban Adventure: Seattle
ISBN: 9780393323979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Seattle is blessed with myriad sports opportunities. Puget Sound is a worldwide sea kayaking, sailing, and fishing mecca; Mount Rainier tops every young mountaineer's must-do list. For newcomers and longtime residents, "Urban Adventure: Seattle" supplies the details and tips that would otherwise take years to acquire. You'll find salmon fishing from your kayak within city limits; nearby island camping to rival that in the San Juans, without the crowds; bouldering routes within thirty minutes of town; and the wildest annual whitewater kayak weekend around.
Seattle is blessed with myriad sports opportunities. Puget Sound is a worldwide sea kayaking, sailing, and fishing mecca; Mount Rainier tops every you...
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The World: Travels 1950-2000
ISBN: 9780393326482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and culturesfrom Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles 50years of Morris's finest travel writing.
A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and culturesfrom Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assemble...
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123,72 zł |
Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers, 1800-1900
ISBN: 9780393326536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo with the Sioux in the Black Hills. This remarkable collection contains stories from the most compelling and celebrated odysseys of the century, some of them long-forgotten classics of their time. From polar navigation to the search for the source of the Nile to the first crossing of the Himalayas to a quest for the origin of species, this... Richard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to t... |
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138,89 zł |
The Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center
ISBN: 9780393328653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Today Rockefeller Center has millions of visitors, but no hands-on guidebook to help tourists easily locate and enjoy its art--until now. Each chapter covers a single building; one general map and detailed section maps make self-guided tours easy. Essential information is provided for every piece, along with color photographs of most. Biographical information and a list of artists allow visitors to single out a specific artist's work By the author of the acclaimedThe Art of Rockefeller Center, this unique and affordable guidebook will empower tourists, students, and enthusiasts alike...
Today Rockefeller Center has millions of visitors, but no hands-on guidebook to help tourists easily locate and enjoy its art--until now. Each chapter...
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79,64 zł |