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| | | |  | Backpacking adventures are all too often cut short by a stolen wallet or ?Delhi belly?. Instead, you can be aware and be prepared. These essential tips will put your mind at rest, leaving you to concentrate on making your travels the stuff of dreams. autor: Sarah Scott issn: 1840244925 data: 2006.02.09 cena: 20.17 PLN |
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| | | |  | This is suicide!' Manuel screamed frantically. So begins an amazing true story of a journey to Antarctica in a 27-foot sailing boat. After travelling through South America to Tierra del Fuego, the only continent David had never visited beckoned to him across treacherous waters. Ships booked for scientific expeditions wouldn't take him, and tourist cruises didn't appeal. Then he saw a little boat in the harbour, its name hand-painted in red on the hull: Berserk. Together with a 'crazy Viking' and a down-on-his-luck Argentinian, the author set sail to follow Shackleton's voyage with little idea of the tumultuous storms, mishaps and emergencies that loomed on the journey to thte world's coldest and most inaccessible continent. He brilliantly recounts their experience of the huge waves, the bleak darkness and the delicate balance of personalities where a mutiny was always in the air. autor: David Mercy issn: 1840249781 data: 2006.01.05 cena: 40.39 PLN |
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| | | |  | Creatures from another time, volcanic mountains five million years old, Indian tribes surviving from the pre-Inca period, jungles and rainforests: Ecuador has all this and more. Only in its Galapagos Islands did Charles Darwin discover such a variety of extraordinary fauna that on his return to England he wrote his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species. With a philosophical yet humorous approach, Neville Shulman provides an in-depth background to Ecuador and its diverse peoples and tells intriguing stories of spectacular creatures and exotic flora, many not found anywhere else in the world. Neville Shulman is the author of Some Like It Cold and Zen Explorations in Remotest New Guinea. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and of the Royal Geographical Society. autor: Neville Shulman issn: 1840249706 data: 2005.11.15 cena: 7.99 PLN |
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| | | |  | It?s crunch time for the Kerr family on their run-down little orange farm in Mallorca. After their first eventful year on the Spanish island, the honeymoon period is over for Peter, Ellie and their two sons, Sandy and Charlie. Will all the work they?ve invested in restoring their finca provide them with a decent living? Will Sandy go back to Scotland, and will young Charlie be seduced by Mallorca?s super-rich set? Amid the spring ?snowfall? of Mallorcan almond blossom, they are helped, as ever, by an eccentric collection of friends and neighbours, none more colourful than Jock Burns, whose Hispano-Scots fiesta turns out to be a highlight of the Mallorcan social calendar. autor: Peter Kerr issn: 1840249900 data: 2005.06.06 cena: 40.39 PLN |
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| | | |  | A fascinating portrait of the new South Africa by the acclaimed author of Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul. From the stillness of the Karoo savanna to the warmth of the Indian Ocean, and from the exclusive white neighbourhoods of Pretoria to the destitution of the black townships in Cape Town, John Malathronas chronicles a journey in one of the most beautiful countries on Earth. Whether dancing the night away in a club, mountain-biking on the backpacker?s bus or watching animals on a safari, John Malathronas is full of sharp observations, be they social, historical, political or botanical. The author draws fascinating portraits of the many Afrikaner, Xhosa, Zulu, Indian and Swazi characters he encounters, all of whom make up the tapestry of the new South Africa. autor: John Malathronas issn: 1840244453 data: 2005.06.06 cena: 7.99 PLN |
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