Skip to main content

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


« john weightman »

1-12 sur 12 résultats pour « john weightman »
Skip side bar filters
  • Tristes Tropiques

    "A magical masterpiece."-Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression." ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

Les lecteurs de ce roman ont aussi aimé

  • Travels

    Collected Writings, 1950-1993

    par Paul Bowles ...
    “Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes.”—New York Times“His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer.”—TimeTravels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel The Sheltering Sky. The acclaimed essays in Travel—never before collected in a single volume—span more than sixty years ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

    Traduit par Chris Andrews ...
    An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Patagonia: A Cultural History

    par Chris Moss ...
    Collections Livre 7 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Traveller's Tree

    A Journey Through the Carribean Islands

    In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • View of the World

    Selected Journalism

    par Norman Lewis ...
    Collected between these covers are twenty of Norman Lewis's finest pieces of travel writing, spanning a period of 30 years. He brings us face to face with Castro's executioner, with a tragic Ernest Hemingway and with the unchanged lifestyle of fishermen in an unspoilt Ibiza. He describes the gentle pleasures of Belize, the ferocious blood feuds of Sardinian bandits and the unpleasant duty of ... En savoir plus

    $11.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Naturalist on the River Amazons

    From Natural History Review, vol. iii. 1863. ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Cut Stones and Crossroads

    A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru

    par Ronald Wright ...
    Traveling through Peru, tracing the history of the Incas from their royal cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu to their mythic origin in Lake Titicaca, Ronald Wright explores a country of contrasts—between Spanish and Indian, past and present, coastal desert and mountainous interior.In his highly entertaining and perceptive account, Wright brings to life a complex culture, a land of ancient traditions ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America

    par John Keay ...
    Collections Livre 353 - Mammoth Books
    Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von HumboldtGeographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von Humboldt brought to exploration a greater range of enquiry than any contemporary. Also an indomitable traveller, particularly in the Orinoco/Amazon basin (1799-1804), he often invited danger but always in the cause of scientific observation. The interest of his ... En savoir plus

    $0.99 CAD

  • Backlands

    The Canudos Campaign

    Traduit par Elizabeth Lowe ...
    An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literatureWritten by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Amnesia Road

    Landscape, violence and memory

    par Luke Stegemann ...
    'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or speak it, and what parts of it should be written or spoken about at all.' Amnesia Road is a compelling literary examination of historic violence in rural areas of Australia and Spain. It is also an unashamed celebration of the beautiful landscapes where ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

    One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the 'new continent'. The first to draw and speculate on ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD