Writing East: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Higgins Iain MacLeod)(Pevná vazba)

Writing East: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Higgins Iain MacLeod)(Pevná vazba)

No work revealed more of the mysterious East to statesmen, explorers, readers, and writers of the late Middle Ages than the Book of John Mandeville. One of the most widely circulated documents of its day, it first appeared in French between 1356 and 1371 and was soon translated into nine other

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Mandeville John)(Paperback)

Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in 'the lands beyond' - countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and

The Book of Marvels and Travels (Mandeville John)(Paperback)

In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. Written in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact and fantasy, an extraordinary

Best of Scotland: A Caledonian Miscellany (MacLeod John)(Pevná vazba)

In this imaginative, informative and amusing miscellany, award-winning journalist John MacLeod explores some of the well-known symbols of Scottish culture (as well some of the quirkier ones) and looks beneath the surface to shatter some long-held assumptions that will surprise even the most

Story of Computing (Turing Sir John Dermot)(Pevná vazba)

View from the Bridge (Parker Sir John)(Pevná vazba)

Kent: North East and East (Newman John)(Pevná vazba)

The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated, and expanded edition of John Newman's classic survey, first published in 1969. This city of Canterbury is the county's greatest treasure, and its glorious cathedral is the first mature example of Gothic

John Richardson: At Home (Richardson John)(Pevná vazba)

Famed Picasso biographer and art historian Sir John Richardson opens the doors of residences from his life, revealing an autobiographical sketch through handsomely decorated rooms filled with art, antiques, and intriguing mementoes, each with a special story. John Richardson's Bohemian Aristocrat

Sir Scaly Pants and the Dragon Thief (Kelly John)(Pevná vazba)

John Newton (Carr Simonetta)(Pevná vazba)

John Newton's life was full of adventure, danger, travels, exotic places, and romance. Young readers will encounter each of these things in Simonetta Carr's carefully narrated and charmingly illustrated book. But more importantly, readers will come to appreciate the way Newton's life was changed

Asset Pricing (Cochrane John H.)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the prestigious Paul A. Samuelson Award for scholarly writing on lifelong financial security, John Cochrane's Asset Pricing now appears in a revised edition that unifies and brings the science of asset pricing up to date for advanced students and professionals. Cochrane traces the pricing

In Search of Angels: Travels to the Edge of the World (Moffat Alistair)(Pevná vazba)

East of Eden: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) (Steinbeck John)(Pevná vazba)

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden 'the first book,' and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich

Far East & Australasia 2000(Pevná vazba)

A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This book keeps up to date with economic and political developments. It presents over 1300 pages of statistics, directory material and

Writing the History of Somerset (Webb Adrian)(Pevná vazba)

Lighthouses of the North East Coast (Jones Robin K.)(Pevná vazba)

The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations (Gayford Martin)(Pevná vazba)

In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Martin Gayford has traveled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford's journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and

Old Man's Guide to Health and Longer Life (Hill John)(Pevná vazba)

Writing in an age when the majority of men didn't live to see their fiftieth birthday, John Hill provides practical dvice on diet, exercise and lifestyle, including sleep and emotional health. Full of genuinely good advice, the book offers sage insights as well as ridiculous regimes - making it a

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life (Schweitzer Petra M.)(Pevná vazba)

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan,

The Little Book of the East End (Gordon Dee)(Pevná vazba)

'The Little Book of the East End' is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be

Art of the Middle East (Eigner Saeb)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world since 1945. Includes more than 500 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script and biographies of the 200-plus featured

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers co-written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with

The Haiku of Basho (White John)(Pevná vazba)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (John Judith)(Pevná vazba)