Jack London. the Paths Men Take (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

Jack London. the Paths Men Take (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

This unique book combines long excerpts of Jack London's literature with a copious amount of his photographs. It beautifully juxtaposes his worldwide famous literature with his incredible photographs, creating a dialogue between the visual and literary arts and building towards a complete

Call of the Wild (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

The Call of the Wild (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

The classic survival story by Jack London in a beautiful hardcover edition Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and

Jack London (Brandt Kenneth K.)(Pevná vazba)

Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London stated: 'It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks. Everybody thinks. There you get your perspective. I got mine.' This study explores how London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a

The Call of the Wild: The Original 1903 Edition (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

Jack London's merciless take on the survival of the fittest as set in the Alaskan wilderness during the Klondike Gold Rush was enthusiastically received in a time when Western society was eagerly interpreting the world through Darwinian eyes. The story became an instant classic, and insofar as

Acorn-Planter & Tales of the Fish Patrol (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from

The Road (London Jack)(Paperback)

During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others-homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London recounts these times, he tells stories of

The Iron Heel (London Jack)(Paperback)

The People of the Abyss (London Jack)(Paperback)

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London's poverty-stricken East End, The People of the Abyss bears witness to the difficulties faced by hundreds and thousands of people every day in one of

Streets of London (Mendo)(Pevná vazba)

Streets of London is a contemporary take on the classic city photo book. To capture all the diversity that characterises London, this volume features more than 40 contemporary photographers with equally varied perspectives and styles. Text in English, German and

Call of the Wild (London Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Today South London, Tomorrow South London (Grumbridge Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

A humorous guide to the less beaten paths of London, south of the

The Call of the Wild and White Fang (London Jack)(Paperback)

Jack London s two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization. The canine hero of The Call of the

The Call of the Wild and White Fang (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical

White Fang - Jack London - e-kniha

eBook:,White Fang is a novel by Jack London that tells the story of a wild dog's journey to becoming civilized. The story is set in the Yukon Territory of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is forced to fend for himself in the wild, but is eventually captured and brought to

Démon alkohol - Jack London

Drásavá literární zpověď slavného autora je překvapivě příběhem o alkoholu. Jack London v ní popisuje své zkušenosti s pitím od dospívání, kdy se živil jako námořník, až po dobu, kdy se stal bohatým a úspěšným spisovatelem. Zachytil v ní nejrůznější momenty, od

The Call of the Wild & White Fang (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering

Classic Starts(r) White Fang (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

Half wolf, half dog, White Fang fully understands the cruelty of both nature and humans. After nearly starving to death during the frigid Arctic winter, he's taken in first by a man who 'trains' him through constant whippings, and then by another who forces him to participate in vicious dogfights

Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America (Tichi Cecelia)(Paperback)

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide

Smoke Bellew (London Jack)(Paperback)

From the author of the classic novel Call of the Wild, Jack London's Smoke Bellew features a vivacious depiction of a gold rush adventure. Christopher Bellew, more commonly known as Kit, lives a comfortable life in San Francisco. He writes daily for a paper and his inherited wealth promises to

Drinking Life (London Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Keeper, 2 (Gustawsson Johana)(Paperback)

Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. London, 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of 10 years earlier, and harking back to the Ripper killings. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman's mutilated body is

Today's London Buses (O'Neill Reiss)(Pevná vazba)

Today's London Buses, covers the London bus scene of the last ten years, including pictures of bus types used in the capital on its major services.This volume looks at various routes across London during this period and the variety of vehicles that have been used in that time frame.Some of the

The Iron Heel - Jack London

Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century,