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There and Back Again: A Decade of Travel Tales
ISBN: 9780996307116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tim and Rachel's wedding vows promised a life filled with adventure. Join them as they trek to find mountain gorillas in the jungles of Rwanda and have a close encounter with a large crocodile on the Nile River in Uganda. Share their romantic wedding on a remote beach in Costa Rica. Enjoy the hysterical description of a visit to a clothing optional resort in Florida to run in a 5K race. And don't miss the hairy bears on Cape Cod. Tim and Rachel's stories remind us that there are wonderful opportunities for adventure and romance if we are open to new experiences, even for couples in their...
Tim and Rachel's wedding vows promised a life filled with adventure. Join them as they trek to find mountain gorillas in the jungles of Rwanda and hav...
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Shop Cook Eat New York: 200 of the City's Best Food Shops, Plus Favorite Recipes
ISBN: 9780847848645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A dream tour for food-obsessed New Yorkers and tourists alike. There is nowhere else in the world that offers greater variety or greater quality of foodstuffs than New York. From the famous Union Square Greenmarket to artisanal spots in Williamsburg, no stone is left unturned in the search for New York's most coveted culinary outlets. Shop Cook Eat New York provides an insider's tour of more than 150 of the best-loved and most-visited culinary outlets in the city. There are butchers, bakers, and gelato makers. The authors uncover delicacies around every corner--from exotic spices to...
A dream tour for food-obsessed New Yorkers and tourists alike. There is nowhere else in the world that offers greater variety or greater quality of fo...
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107,04 zł |
On The Right Track: Volume III: Early Travels of a Noted Anthropologist & Historian in Africa
ISBN: 9780990645931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On The Right Track, in three volumes, covers 15 years (1967 to 1982)of traveling and working on the African continent as recalled by Cynthia Salvadori, noted social anthropologist, historian and photographer. These early experiences with her long-time companion and working partner, Andrew Fedders, influenced every facet of her later life and were the beginning of her passion to document and preserve the history of marginalized peoples and capture fast-disappearing moments in African cultures. She and Andy were initially intrigued by remote, indigenous tribes still living the life of their...
On The Right Track, in three volumes, covers 15 years (1967 to 1982)of traveling and working on the African continent as recalled by Cynthia Salvadori...
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On the Right Track: Volume II: Early Travels of a Noted Anthropologist & Historian in Africa
ISBN: 9780990645924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On The Right Track, in three volumes, covers 15 years (1967 to 1982)of traveling and working on the African continent as recalled by Cynthia Salvadori, noted social anthropologist, historian and photographer. These early experiences with her long-time companion and working partner, Andrew Fedders, influenced every facet of her later life and were the beginning of her passion to document and preserve the history of marginalized peoples and capture fast-disappearing moments in African cultures. She and Andy were initially intrigued by remote, indigenous tribes still living the life of their...
On The Right Track, in three volumes, covers 15 years (1967 to 1982)of traveling and working on the African continent as recalled by Cynthia Salvadori...
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On The Right Track: Volume I: Early Travels of a Noted Anthropologist, Historian & Writer in Africa
ISBN: 9780990645917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On The Right Track, in three volumes, covers 15 years (1967 to 1982)of traveling and working on the African continent as recalled by Cynthia Salvadori, noted social anthropologist, historian and photographer. These early experiences with her long-time companion and working partner, Andrew Fedders, influenced every facet of her later life and were the beginning of her passion to document and preserve the history of marginalized peoples and capture fast-disappearing moments in African cultures. She and Andy were initially intrigued by remote, indigenous tribes still living the life of their...
On The Right Track, in three volumes, covers 15 years (1967 to 1982)of traveling and working on the African continent as recalled by Cynthia Salvadori...
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90,63 zł |
At Home in France: Tales of an American and Her House Aboard
ISBN: 9780345407870 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "As beguiling and delectable as France itself."
*Mimi Sheraton
"As beguiling and delectable as France itself."
*Mimi Sheraton
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81,99 zł |
A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World
ISBN: 9780345420046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fascinated since childhood with Leif Eriksson's triumphant sailing voyage a thousand years ago from Greenland to North America, Hodding Carter could not shake his admittedly crazy idea of reenacting Eriksson's epic journey in a precise replica of the precarious Viking cargo ship known as a knarr. This extraordinary book is the account of how he pulled it off. By turns thrilling and slapstick, sublime and outrageous, A Viking Voyage is an unforgettable adventure story that will take you to the heart of some of the most magnificent, unspoiled territory on earth, and even deeper,...
Fascinated since childhood with Leif Eriksson's triumphant sailing voyage a thousand years ago from Greenland to North America, Hodding Carter could n...
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81,99 zł |
Feeding Frenzy: Across Europe in Search of a Perfect Meal
ISBN: 9780345425546 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Friends and fellow New Yorkers Stuart Stevens and Rachel "Rat" Kelly share two passions: exercise and eating. Having exhausted nearly every posh Manhattan restaurant, former model Rat suggests they take their buffed bodies to new gastronomic heights via a tour of Europe's Michelin three-star restaurants. Rat's boyfriend will underwrite the trip--but only if they do the twenty-nine restaurants on their list in twenty-nine days. What follows is nothing less than gustatory madness, a wacky dash in a cherry-red 1965 Mustang across England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and France through Europe's...
Friends and fellow New Yorkers Stuart Stevens and Rachel "Rat" Kelly share two passions: exercise and eating. Having exhausted nearly every posh Manha...
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81,99 zł |
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
ISBN: 9780345434203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Take a Roman holiday with some of the world's greatest writers
Explore the Palatine with Elizabeth Bowen. Visit the temple of the Vestal Virgins with Georgina Masson. Analyze Michelangelo's Moses with Sigmund Freud. Stroll through ancient streets with Goethe and with Henry James. Share Alice Steinbach's midnight epiphany on a shabby hotel balcony. Learn the art of love from Ovid. Visit villas and gardens with Edith Wharton. Enjoy Rome's myriad moods and pleasures with Robert Browning, Eleanor Clark, Susan Vreeland, and many others. An irresistible collection of writing about... Take a Roman holiday with some of the world's greatest writers
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69,05 zł |
Take Me with You: A Round-The-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home
ISBN: 9780345449122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It was the dream of a euphoric young traveler awed by the crystalline silence of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush: "Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America." Twenty-five years later, Brad Newsham set out from his home in San Francisco to make good on his youthful vow-and this irresistibly charming, deeply humane book is the chronicle of what happened along the way. Giving himself one hundred days to journey around the world, Newsham began in the Philippines and immediately found himself embroiled in serendipitous adventures and...
It was the dream of a euphoric young traveler awed by the crystalline silence of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush: "Someday, when I am rich, I am going to ...
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81,99 zł |
Hearing Birds Fly: A Year in a Mongolian Village
ISBN: 9780349115801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel far away in the west, near the Kazakh border. Her story completely transports the reader to feel the glacial cold and to see the wonders of the Seven Kings as they steadily emerge from the horizon. Through her we sense their trials as well as their joys, rivalries and even hostilities, many...
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland chara...
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61,91 zł |
Travels with Alice
ISBN: 9780374526009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and skip the Grand Tour in favor of swimming holes, table soccer, and taureaux piscine. In Paris, they spend a day on the Champs-Elysees comparing Freetime's "le Hitburger" to McDonald's Big Mac. In Spain, Trillin wonders whether he will run out of Spanish "the way someone might run out of flour or eggs." Filled with Trillin's characteristic...
This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, the...
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Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
ISBN: 9780375701009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing.In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the astonishingly varied lives of the people who live along its banks.Whether he is fishing for walleye or hunting coon, discussing theology in Prairie Du Chien or race relations in Memphis, he is an expert observer of the heartyland's estrangement from America's capitals ot power and culture, and its...
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing ye...
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
ISBN: 9780375701016 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book "In an era of jet tourism, Jonathan Raban] remains a
traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson." --The New York Times Book Review In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, arrived in Crevecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for succeeding generations of newcomers. The result is... A New York Times Notable Book "In an era of jet tourism, Jonathan Raban] remains a
traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis... |
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Two in the Wild: Tales of Adventure from Friends, Mothers, and Daughters
ISBN: 9780375702013 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thelma and Louise get sporty (and survive) in this anthology of true stories about women whose idea of fun involves sharing adventures--big and small--in the great outdoors. In essays that not only take you to mountains, forests, lakes, and rivers but also explore the powerful and intimate bond of female companionship, the editor of Solo: On Her Own Adventure introduces sixteen daring women and their travel mates as they ski, climb, hike, bike, and drive all over the world.
Trudge through the muddied roads of Australia's outback with thirty-something Sara Corbett and her childhood chum to... Thelma and Louise get sporty (and survive) in this anthology of true stories about women whose idea of fun involves sharing adventures--big and small-...
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Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
ISBN: 9780375702655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path.And on the way he runs out of gas in an Argentine desert, talks a Peruvian guerrilla out of taking him hostage, wipes out in the Andes, and, in Cuba, drinks himself blind with Che's travel partner, Alberto Granado.
Here is the unforgettable story of a wanderer's quest for food, shelter, and wisdom. Here,... Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Dia...
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Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
ISBN: 9780375705335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The adventure began when a young British photographer, Kevin Muggleton, suggested driving from one end of Africa to the other You know, the old Cape to Cairo sort of thing. For the renowned feminist writer Ann Jones, it soon became an expedition with a mission: to find the legendary Lovedu, a tribe ruled by a great rainmaking queen and dedicated to the feminine ideals of compromise, cooperation, tolerance, and peace.
Setting out from Tangier in a battered old blue-and-yellow Land Rover, Jones and Muggleton face daunting physical challenges, from shifting sand in the Sahara to deep mud... The adventure began when a young British photographer, Kevin Muggleton, suggested driving from one end of Africa to the other You know, the old Cape t...
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The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited
ISBN: 9780375708343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies-countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.
In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart's appearance with cries of "That is man " He ventures into a... In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel wr...
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Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese
ISBN: 9780375714337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Artful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world."
-- Bob Hoover, Pittsburg Post-Gazette " Kaplan] helps the distant past resonate today. . . . He] teaches lessons that are informative and concise." -The Washington Post Book World "A writer of extraordinary intellect and passion . . . with a wonderfully lucid way of relating history as a living thing." -San Francisco Chronicle "Erudite and intrepid. . . . Kaplan] is a deft guide to wherever he chooses to lead... "Artful and intelligent . . . . Kaplan's book has made its own mark. . . I am able to feel the sense of an exotic and timeless part of the world." |
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An Italian Affair
ISBN: 9780375724855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual vacation tryst turns into a passionate, transatlantic love affair, as they rendezvous in London, Marrakech, Milan, the Aeolian Islands, and San Francisco. Each encounter is a delirious immersion into place (sumptuous food and wine, dazzling scenery, lush gardens, and vibrant streetscapes) and...
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behin...
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90,63 zł |