Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, Paperback - Herman Melville

Melville's continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of S...

Trader and adventurer Peter Dillon (1788-1847) spent much of his life in the Pacific. When he discovered artefacts from a lost French expedition, h...

Pippi Longstocking's quirky tales have been entertaining readers for 75 years. In this story Pippi, Tommy and Annika are of on a great adventure-a ...

Reducere. Early in the twentieth-century, B. S. Moss was one of many ambitious Jewish immigrants to leap from New York's textile business to the more promisi...

Reducere. Colectia Mari clasici ilustrati cuprinde cele mai cunoscute capodopere ale literaturii universale. Titlurile seriei fac parte din lista de lecturi ...

Reducere. Moby Dick. Dupa un roman de Herman Melville Copiii adora povestile, iar cele clasice au fost intotdeauna printre favoritele lor. Totusi, uneori, o ...

Reducere. Volumul de fata cuprinde patru povestiri in cadrul carora, asa cum afirma cercetatoarea Nathalia Wright, personajele lui Melville sunt preocupate d...

Reducere. Brought to you by the long-time writer of Hellboy's B.P.R.D, John Arcudi curates a magnificent collection of over fifty illustrations inspired by t...

Reducere. Observati un lucru. Ne aflam intr-unul dintre cele trei tinuturi nelocuite care, situandu-se cam la aceeasi distanta de continent, vegheaza intreag...

DescriptionIn this novella, widely considered one of the finest works of American literature, a lawyer hires the "incurably forlorn" Bartleby as a ...

Reducere. Bartleby is a newly-hired scrivener who initially produces great work but slowly reduces his output, declining assignments and responding with: "I ...

Reducere. Cand se hotaraste sa se imbarce pe o nava de vanatoare de balene, tanarul Ismael nu are nici cea mai mica idee despre incredibila aventura care il ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1787, the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after l...

Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct desce...

Charlestown, originally known as No. 4, was first settled in 1740 by three families from Lunenburg by the name of Farnsworth. In 1744 a fort was be...

Reducere. This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the islan...

Reducere. The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caug...

Reducere. Herman Melville's absurdist classic is printed anew in this presentable hardcover edition. First published in 1853, Bartleby, the Scrivener has bee...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Reducere. The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paperback

DescriptionThe mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as...

Reducere. Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie's The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African Americ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Herman MelvilleBartleby, the Scrivener is the short story by Herman Melville now brought to you in this new edition of the ...

Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man wh...

Moby Dick is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the ...

Reducere. Novela escrita por Herman Melville el año de 1851, en la que narra la aventura de Moby Dick o la ballena blanca.Ahab, capitán del ballenero Pequod,...

The book, The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative Of The Extraordinary Life Of Amos Wilson Who Expired In A Cave In The Neighborhood Of Harrisburgh (P...

Reducere. "Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life" was Herman Melville's first novel and the work he was best known for during his own lifetime. Originally publish...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Herman MelvilleNumb...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. This is an entirely new kind of garden book, rather than a homage to contemporary gardens, a survey of historic gardens or a "how-to" manual. Throu...

Herman Melville (1819–1891) a fost un prozator si poet american, autor al unor romane de aventuri captivante avand ca fundal peisajul marin si exot...

Reducere. First published in 1834, "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett" is the autobiography of the famous American folk hero Davy Crockett, often ref...

DescriptionIn The Value of Herman Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist ...

Reducere. This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies a...

Reducere. China is engaged in a widespread assertion of sovereignty in the South and East China Seas. It employs a "gray zone" strategy: using coercive but s...

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 ...

DescriptionIn the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the...