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Career Girls(2018) MCGILL, TShe’s made herself a tick-off calendar that she intends to hand down the maternal line. How much has changed since women were first allowed to cast off their pinnies and embark on the excitements of office life?Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Garden Farmer(2017) RAYMOND, FRANCINEWhat could be more satisfying?The Garden Farmer is an evocative journal and monthly guide to getting the most out of your garden throughout the year.Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Speaking in Tongues(2016) SANDERS, ELLA FRANCESEver feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head? This book brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life witVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Single-Sentence Shakespeare(2022) GORTER, COURTNEYThis amusing approach to Shakespeare's classic dramas features the plot of each of the Bard's 39 plays reduced to a single descriptive sentence.Vezava: Trda18,21 € -
When Cricket and Politics Collided(2021) THORN, RICHARDWhen Cricket and Politics Collided describes one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of English cricket.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Affair of the Heart, An(2019) POWELL, DILYSDilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun?baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, campVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Borderlines(2021) NICHOLL, CHARLESTravels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ride to Khiva(2017) BURNABY, FREDAn immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby s delight in a life of risk and adventure still burns through the pages, as does his spontaneous affection for the Cossack troopers and Tartar, Khirgiz and Turkoman tribesmen that he encountersVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hill of Devi(2022) FORSTER, E. M.This book chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us with him to its heart and the eight- day festival of Gokul Ashtami, marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness MahVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Time Among the Maya(2020) WRIGHT, RONALD,IYER, PICOTime Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures.' Jan Morris, IndependentVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Cut Stones and Crossroads(2020) WRIGHT, RONALD,MANGUEL, ALBERTORonald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Eothen(2019) KINGLAKE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM,RABAN, JONATHANEothen, which means `news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year off travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of trVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Not a Hazardous Sport(2018) BARLEY, NIGELNot a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague of Caterpillars (both published by Eland).Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Book of Puka-Puka(2019) FRISBIE, ROBERT DEAN,WELLER, ANTHONYPuka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral forests some ten fathoms below. It is the most remote, and probably the most beautiful, of all the Cook IslVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
For Love or Money(2018) RABAN, JONATHAN'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul TherouxVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Arabia through the Looking Glass(2018) RABAN, JONATHAN'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin ThubronVezava: Mehka18,21 €
