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The Irish Sketchbook 1842 / W. M. Thackeray. - Gloucester : Alan Sutton, 1990. - XXII, 369 stron ; 18 cm.

Author

Thackeray W. M. Autor

Form of Work

Książki

Subject

Historia Podróże Irlandia.

Domain

Podróże i turystyka

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travel writing

Excellent and very readable account of a trip through pre-famine Ireland. Includes some highly intelligent and pertinent observations on the state of a nation. Recommended.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 743.XXIV.3 [Magazyn 1] (1 egz.)

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Moon Country : further reports from Iceland / Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell. - London; Boston : faber and faber, 1996. - 176 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Armitage Simon (1963- ) Autor Maxwell Glyn Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura angielska

Genre/Form

Literatura angielska Reportaż

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poetry travel writing

Two of the brightest young poets of our day follow in the footsteps of W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. Auden and MacNeice's Letters from Iceland was more than a brilliant and unconventional travel book; it was one of the great works of the 1930s which defined for its own and later generations the precise nature and feeling of that troubled time.With characteristic boldness, Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell, staunch admirers of the two older poets, set off in 1994 to discover what Iceland, with its unique geography and ancient political institutions, might have to say to us now. Their findings, delivered in an appropriate mixture of poetry and prose, reportage and imaginative elaboration, vividly reflect the concerns of our own age, and will instruct and amuse readers in equal measure.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 612.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (1 egz.)

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A Curious Life for a Lady : the story of Isabella Bird : a remarkable victorian traveller / Pat Barr. - Londyn : Secker & Warburg, cop. 1970. - 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Barr Pat Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Bird, Isabella (1831-1904).

Genre/Form

Biografia

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literature travel writing

Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. In 1872, at the age of forty, this rather earnest daughter of a country parson abandoned the rectory nest and began her pioneering journeys to some of the most inhospitable corners of the world. Undismayed by discomfort or danger she was to spend almost thirty years travelling - to the Rocky Mountains, the Sandwich Isles, to Japan, Malaya, Kashmir and Tibet, to Persia, Korea and China - where an indomitable spirit, an unassuming cordiality and, above all, a limitless capacity for being interested won her universal welcome. Her accounts of her experiences became best-selling books and established for Isabella Bird a reputation as one of the great travel writers of her day.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 647.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (1 egz.)

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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain / Daniel Defoe. - Londyn : Penguin Books, 1986. - 730 s. ; 20 cm.

Author

Defoe Daniel (1660-1731).

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Genre/Form

Powieść Literatura angielska

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novel travel writing

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 676.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (1 egz.)

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Riding the Iron Rooster : by train trough China / Paul Theroux. - New York : Ivy Books, 1989. - 451 s. ; 18 cm.

(Ivy Books Travel)

Author

Theroux Paul (1941- ).

Form of Work

Książki

Subject

POWIEŚĆ AMERYKAŃSKA LITERATURA PODRÓŻNICZA AMERYKAŃSKA

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travel writing Far East Asia

Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition, by train across Euope, through the vast underbelly of Asia and in the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail, as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of one of the most intrepid and insightful travel writers of our time.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 8942.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (1 egz.)