Zbirka: Biografije: splošno
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Jonny: My Autobiography(2012) WILKINSON, JONNYJONNY is the unrelenting, brutally honest account of one of the most revered, successful and complex athletes ever to play rugby for England.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Green Fool(2001) KAVANAGH, PATRICKPresents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying andVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
My Invented Country(2004) ALLENDE, ISABELThe life story of Isabel Allende – one of the world's favourite writers – is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
It Is What It Is(2008) COULTHARD, DAVIDThe stunningly honest and revealing autobiography of the most successful British Grand Prix driver of all timeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Karl Marx(2000) WHEEN, FRANCISA major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rage To Live(1999) LOVELL, MARY S.*A fascinating 'dual' biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(2009) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKFrederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Lise Meitner(1997) SIME, RUTH LEWINLise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. This book tells the story of this brilliant woman whose extraordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scientific pVezava: Mehka50,09 € -
Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars(2013) LONG, MARTHAAfter a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show MartVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Four Hedges(2010) LEIGHTON, CLAREClare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills in the 1930s.Vezava: Mehka19,63 € -
Cold(2014) FIENNES, RANULPHBritain's most famous explorer and bestselling author's new book on extreme cold.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
These Poor Hands(2002) COOMBES, B. L.Presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. This title intends to offer an account of the lives of miners and their families, and carries a sincere moral charge inVezava: Mehka18,28 € -
Everest - The First Ascent(2014) TUCKEY, HARRIETA doctor and physiologist, Griffith Pugh revolutionised almost every aspect of British high-altitude mountaineering, transforming the climbers' attitude to oxygen, the clothes they wore, their equipment, fluid intake and acclimatisation. Yet, far from recVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Scent of Dried Roses(2009) LOTT, TIMAn exploration of the author's parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late fifties and his own bouts of depression. It conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood and the landscape of postwar suburban England. It tells a story ofVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
In The Footsteps Of Adam(2001) HEYERDAHL, THOR* Epic memoir by one of the greatest explorers of our time, the Norwegian-born Thor Heyerdahl.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Nelson: A Dream of Glory(2012) SUGDEN, DR JOHNNelson: A Dream of Glory is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vVezava: Mehka49,07 €
