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David Cannadine's unique history examines the British preoccupation with class and the different ways the British have thought about their own society. From the eighteenth through the twentieth century, he traces the different ways British society has been viewed,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2000-03-30
ePub
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What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas?
Mobsters and showgirls, magicians and tigers, multimillion-dollar poker games and prizefights; towering signboards that light up the night in front of ever more spectacular casino hotels.
But real people live here,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-10-28
PDF, ePub
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Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This is the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people, the Yangtse being...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1998-02-26
ePub
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The Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher, G.I. Gurdjieff’s autobiographical account of his youth and early travels has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive read in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1997-11-06
ePub
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India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of ‘stories’ which explore Calcutta, from the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad (probably...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1992-09-14
ePub
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In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1992-06-15
ePub
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For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1990-01-04
ePub
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In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short Residence in Sweden is the record of Wollstonecraft's last journey...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1987-04-30
ePub
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After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1979-11-22
ePub
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George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1973-07-26
ePub
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THE following pages contain my memories of many years spent in the African bush, where I did little else than hunt game and study their habits and tracks.
In 1906 my friend the late Major (then Captain) C. H. Stigand and myself brought out Central African Game and its...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-12-22
epub sans DRM
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The seven wonders of the world, or the seven wonders of the ancient world , is a well-known list of the most admirable architectural and artistic works of the ancient world, which the greeks and romans considered perfect. These works, allegories of the human soul, show...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2025-11-24
epub sans DRM
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This book consist of an information for tourist purposes and educational reasons and contents as thus-there were seven wonders of the ancient world which refers to remarkable constructions of classical antiquities listed in this guidebooks popular among the ancient...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2025-11-14
epub sans DRM
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This heartwarming fairy tale tells the story of an extraordinary journey of children and their loyal bunny friend into a land where thoughts and words possess incredible magic. There, they meet king ralph — a lazy and capricious little mouse, enchanted by an evil...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2025-11-14
epub sans DRM
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The taj mahal is renowned for its exceptional architecture that infuses elements from various influences around the world, including the magnificence of mughal, persian, and islamic architectural styles.
Shah jahan, the reigning emperor of the mughal empire, had been...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2025-11-10
epub sans DRM
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"Verso la cuna del mondo" non è il resoconto trionfale di un esploratore, ma la cronaca di un incontro. L'incontro tra il più intimo e "casalingo" dei poetati italiani e la vastità tumultuosa dell'India. È lo scontro tra il suo Piemonte discreto e il subcontinente...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2025-10-31
epub sans DRM
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Alla fine dell'Ottocento, Edmondo De Amicis, già celebre autore di "Cuore", intraprende un viaggio verso la capitale dell'Impero Ottomano. Ne nasce non una semplice guida di viaggio, ma un'opera monumentale, un affresco letterario che cattura l'anima di una città-mondo...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2025-10-01
epub sans DRM
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The author describes his experiences traveling through the Caribbean to Guatemala and southern Mexico in 1933.
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-09-16
epub sans DRM
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A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so captured her imagination. For twelve days, with her husband and three friends, she embarked on a difficult and often...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-09-12
epub sans DRM
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