Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal
ISBN: 9780520069411 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on elements of various genres--anthropological monograph, literary memoir, and photojournalism--James Fisher has devised this multivocal format to trace the impact of modern education and mass tourism on contemporary Sherpa society and to present and assess the Sherpas; views of their collective future.
Drawing on elements of various genres--anthropological monograph, literary memoir, and photojournalism--James Fisher has devised this multivocal forma...
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Outer Journey Inner Journey: Travels in India, Nepal, & Indonesia
ISBN: 9780595455744 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experience these countries through their myths, religions and philosophies. Explore their geography. Make sense of their political challenges. Visit incredible caves, mountains, rivers and festivals in off-the-beaten-track places. Discover in detail how exploration and immersion in foreign cultures produce constant internal reflection and self re-discovery. Feast your eyes, challenge your mind, open your heart.
Experience these countries through their myths, religions and philosophies. Explore their geography. Make sense of their political challenges. Visit i...
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91,73 zł |
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India
ISBN: 9780802137333 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka.
Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course...
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75,22 zł |
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
ISBN: 9780812217438 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animosity toward their neighbors across the border. . . . The border divides them but it is also a seam that j
"During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animo...
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153,36 zł |
The Hunt for the Buru
ISBN: 9780941936651 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This firsthand account of a 1948 journey to a treacherous valley in northern India in search of a mysterious creature is both a classic travel adventure and a graphic record of an amazing expedition. The book chronicles the group's movement into a remote valley in Assam, where the inhabitants had only recently given up headhunting, on a quest for the Buru--an elusive, monstrous reptile well documented by those native to the area. The Buru, like the Yeti, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster, has captured the imagination of adventurers around the world, and remains a popular subject of...
This firsthand account of a 1948 journey to a treacherous valley in northern India in search of a mysterious creature is both a classic travel adventu...
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Blogging Through India
ISBN: 9781425978082 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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169,03 zł |
Ramblings with Ruth
ISBN: 9781931475228 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the missionaries Sam and Ruth Schmitthenner, who served the Telugu people in India for thirty years (1960-1990).
The story of the missionaries Sam and Ruth Schmitthenner, who served the Telugu people in India for thirty years (1960-1990).
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83,58 zł |
Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir
ISBN: 9781931641524 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,94 zł |
The Best of India for Tourists: The Ultimate Guide for India's Top Sites, Restaurants, Shopping and Beaches for Tourists
ISBN: 9781508715498 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best of India for Tourists 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide for India's Top Site, Restaurants, Shopping and Beaches for Tourists
Planning a trip to India and don't know where to go? Have no idea where to start this trip in this wonderful country your about to see? Should you stay in the city or outside the city? You for sure don't want to miss seeing the Kedarnath How about the Badrinath? How about what to buy in India? Shopping? Want to know where you can bargain shop? And what to buy? ...The Best of India for Tourists 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide for India's Top Site, Restaurants, Shopping and Beaches for Tourists <...
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42,51 zł |
Glimpses of Bengal - Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1885-1895
ISBN: 9781604500820 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The letters translated in this book span the most productive period of my literary life, when, owing to great good fortune, I was young and less known. From the Introduction.
The letters translated in this book span the most productive period of my literary life, when, owing to great good fortune, I was young and less known...
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38,85 zł |
Womens Travel Writing 1750-1850: Volume 4
ISBN: 9780415320382 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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1085,19 zł |
India South and North East: 2008
ISBN: 9781553410690 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scale = 1/2,3M edition = 2008.
Scale = 1/2,3M edition = 2008.
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81,69 zł |
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
ISBN: 9780547237930 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made Great Railway Bazaar a classic of travel literature and realizes in rich, anecdotal detail how much the world has changed. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the... Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made Great Railway Bazaar a classic of travel literature and realizes in ric... |
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Passage Through India
ISBN: 9781593761783 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder, with his former wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India "to see the hearth-land of the Buddha's teachings." Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case, also wrote the whole account in one long letter to his sister. Passage Through India brings both together in celebration of and reverence for India and its teachings. As Snyder writes in his original preface, "I honor India for many things: those neolithic cattle breeders who...
In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder, with his former wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orl...
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83,37 zł |
Marrying Anita
ISBN: 9780747596158 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A confessional memoir, 'Marrying Anita' is about a single Indian-American woman who suspects that maybe her parents are right and arranged marriages are the route to happiness.
A confessional memoir, 'Marrying Anita' is about a single Indian-American woman who suspects that maybe her parents are right and arranged marriages a...
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47,76 zł |
Walking Calcutta
ISBN: 9781907211041 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wandering odyssey through the City's pullulating backstreets and serpentine byways reveals a Calcutta rarely glimpsed by western travellers. Arranged as a series of journeys on foot through the older quarters of the City seldom trod by outsiders, the narrative chronicles the topography, social and historical background and the vibrant street life and characters which give Calcutta its uniqueness. Complete with detailed directions and street maps for the areas explored, the book provides a storehouse of indispensable information for the intrepid traveller.
This wandering odyssey through the City's pullulating backstreets and serpentine byways reveals a Calcutta rarely glimpsed by western travellers. Arra...
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63,14 zł |
Are We Not There Yet?: Travels in Nepal, North India, and Bhutan
ISBN: 9780982354209 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. South Asia Studies. "Irreverent is a good word to describe this chronicle of a four-month sojourn in North India and the Himalayas undertaken by a group of California college students, teacher and novelist Rosenthal, his poet wife, and their daughter. But it merely hints at the many dimensions of Rosenthal's roguish and frank travelogue, what with its thorny detail, skepticism, and chutzpah; complex philosophical, political, and spiritual conundrums; acid humor, mystical chaos, and cosmic surrealism. It helps that Rosenthal, hailed everywhere they go as...
Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. South Asia Studies. "Irreverent is a good word to describe this chronicle of a four-month sojourn in North India ...
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62,69 zł |
Glimpses of Bengal
ISBN: 9781438530918 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,62 zł |
Falling Coconuts: A 5000 Mile Journey Around The Coast Of India From The Sunderbans To The Rann Of Kutch
ISBN: 9781442112087 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author returns to his homeland and attempts to rediscover his country by travelling around the entire coast of India, something no one previously has completed. This is his accurate account of the travails, mysteries, and conflict with several alien cultures as he tries to come to grips with this impossible country. His love of the sea and nature makes this journey a frustrating mix of beauty and defilement.
The author returns to his homeland and attempts to rediscover his country by travelling around the entire coast of India, something no one previously ...
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57,05 zł |
Sound of the Sacred Beads: A Poet's Journey Into India
ISBN: 9780984513901 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,20 zł |