Great Flood. Travels Through a Sodden Landscape, Paperback - Edward Platt

A journey that explores floods and flooding in all its forms: Platt investigates the ways in which water has shaped our landscape, our literature a...

The City of Abraham is a journey to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and an account of the shared roots of the three great monotheist...

Reducere. Leah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston's North End neighborhood to journey west. It's the only way she'll have the future she ...

Reducere. Leah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston's North End neighborhood to journey west. It's the only way she'll have the future she ...

Reducere. Aim Humbert (1819-1900), Swiss politician, traveler, and educator, arrived in Japan in 1863 as envoy plenipotentiary of the Swiss federal governmen...

A blistering account from the acclaimed author of The Unravelling, which traces the threads of violence that have scorched the Middle East for decades

Reducere. Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, whic...

Reducere. The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Coveri...

Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): D. H. LawrenceNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 14Cover type: Paperb...

Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacl...

This book educates and introduce readers to the ways in which we can adapt to the threat of flooding throughout the built and natural environment. ...

No. 1 New Release in Spain & Portugal Travel, General Portugal Travel Guides, and Motorcycles. When Andy and his wife, Kim, set out on their Harley...

Journeying across the British Isles and drawing on his own mining and stonemasonry background, geologist Ted Nield unearths the ways in which the r...

Reducere. "This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary a...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Gerlinde GruberIllustration(s): 170 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 24...

Reducere. Some seemingly preordained lives end up elsewhere entirely when a person manages to break the mold. Mary's mold was broken from the outside. When t...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR.* A journey across the former Ottoman Empire reveals its legacy and the integral diver...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in an...

In this rich and original photo book, Austrian photographer Michael Koenigshofer explores how lives are lived in the intense and extreme environmen...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mr Daniel GrayNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converge...

Contributor(s): Author: Jerry EwingForeword by: Steve HackettJerry Ewing, Editor of 'Prog' Magazine tells the in-depth history of Progressive Rock....

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-cen...

To which are added, several tours in Hungary, in 1799 and 1800: in a series of letters to his sister in England. Pages 27-28 is missing. This book,...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Erin GleesonIllustration(s): 200 full-color photographsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 212 x 286 ...

Reducere. Completely revised edition of the ground-breaking travel writing book that provides a road map to success in the digital age. It dives headlong int...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. 0n May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Nigel HamiltonNumber of pages: 260Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 231 x 154 x 17Cover type: Paperback /...

When Puritans Edward Whalley and William Goffe joined the parliamentary army against King Charles I in the English civil wars, they seized an oppor...

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. It is Sizwe's deep amb...

A collection of Dickens' many writings on railways, from ghost stories to Dombey and Son, travel pieces to letters.Illustrations: 10 black and whit...

A book about the joys and pleasures of running, the highs and lows of life, the history and landscape of Ireland, and so much more.

Reducere. It was 1942, and Theodora, a charming Dutch/Indonesian teenager, was uprooted from her pampered East Indies upbringing and forced to live in one of...

Reducere. Funny, adorable, and action-packed --Kazu Kibuishi, #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the Amulet series From the creator of Bird & Squirrel,...

Reducere. If God told you to build a massive Ark, would you build it? Well, Noah listened and built the biggest boat in the world. Even though he didn't unde...

DescriptionAcross design disciplines, drawing by hand has largely become a lost art. With digital tools at their disposal, the majority of designer...