Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents, Paperback - Paul Theroux

Reducere. This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary ...

Description"The market has failed, we need more government intervention." That's the mantra politicians, the media, and intellectuals have been rei...

In this pathbreaking book, award-winning author Douglas Jacobsen describes global Christianity and provides a framework for understanding the varie...

One-way ticket to India. The intentional act of re-becoming. I left broken and came back whole. This is my story. Find out how I incorporated knowl...

Exploring the masks of an African culture that were one of Picasso's primary influences.

This catalogue for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne highlights the museum's holdings with a selection of works...

Reducere. 2018 Lowell Thomas Gold Award Winner - Best Travel Book Due North is a collection of travel observations, reflections, and snapshots spanning two d...

In Kuyu, part of the Visions of Africa series, the reader will find a wide range of authentic objects belonging to a traditional Equatorial African...

In this second book in the Aboriginal Arts and Knowledge series, the cooperative art process called Wamulu is explored through the work of 4 artist...

Reducere. Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn...

The author of }Deep South{ and }The Great Railway Bazaar{'s body of work is mined for its best bits, brought together here, with profiles of famous...

A compendium of wit, wisdom and travel trips gathered together by Theroux after 50 years on the road. Features his own work, and that of other auth...

Reducere. "Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft." -- New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniq...

Reducere. Description"A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."--The New York Times Book Review "Theroux is at t...

Offers the reader insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots.Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul TherouxNumbe...

At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to th...

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. The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer...

Reducere. This is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from the author's family, youth, career, and travel. Paul Bennett provides readers with his uni...

A Survivor Story Featuring Strong Female Characters, an Undercover Cop, and the Hills of San FranciscoWith the perfect mix of tragedy and humor, lo...

This book offers a review of Matteo Pugliese's art over the past 20 years. The figures the Milanese sculptor creates are distinguished by their gre...

This book completes the survey of the Indian scene, begun by the various exhibitions held in Paris, London, New York and Tokyo, which were devoted ...

An account of Paul Theroux's ultimate "safari", from Cairo to Capetown. 35, 000 copies sold in hardback. Undoubtedly one of the biggest travel book...

Theroux contributes new prefaces to these new editions of his travel writing classics.

Having travelled down the right side of Africa in }Dark Star Safari{, Paul Theroux sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new d...

Reducere. BOURGEOIS TO BUDDHA is a tale of one woman's mid-life inferno after her nest empties and how she exits her standard American home, husband and care...

DescriptionLegendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back r...

Reducere. Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it. At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when sh...

Stunning photographs spin tales of family traditions and religious devotion, with a special section dedicated to jewellery worn by brides and groom...

Reducere. Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, Paperback

From award-winner Catherine Rayner comes a big-hearted picture-book tale of difference, acceptance . . . and bears!Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s...

Necunoscuta de la Palazzo d'Oro - Paul Theroux

Reducere. In the mid-1950s, a young Black teenager named Mary White traveled north from Virginia to work for Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic wor...

Reducere. After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great B...

Featuring visionary creators from various fields, from art and contemporary dance to architecture and robotics, this lavishly illustrated book repo...

Book of Books is a box of literary delights. Illustrated throughout, it provides a guided tour of rare books, manuscripts and historical artifacts ...

Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his...

With more than 1, 000 images and descriptive texts, this is the ultimate celebration of the world's most gorgeous gardenPublisher: Phaidon Press Lt...

Reducere. Paul Theroux 978-973-102-379-3

Reducere. Description"The strands are as interwoven as the visible spectrum, yet upon closer inspection, one may be found to bind the rest."- Isabel van Geld...

After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the Britis...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the foun...

Plaster model examples from Antonio Canova photographed by Luigi Spina

"Suave and accomplished . . . The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- Washington Post "Beneath the ...

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and tak...

Reducere. O explorare profunda a mecanismelor nevazute ce anima dorinta sexuala.Un tanar american soseste la Palazzo d’Oro, in Sicilia, in anii ’60. Sarac, d...

A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love....