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Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099459329ISBN 13: 9780099459323
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through the wind-swept wastes of the Gobi desert and finished at the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals is an astonishing diversity, a land whose still unmeasured resources strain to meet an awesome demand, and an ancient people still reeling from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution. 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0749386304ISBN 13: 9780749386306
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange signs and portents are troubling the latter part of his reign. By the side of the River Fleet in Clerkenwell the people are restless, disenchanted with the church and their King. The streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun, Sister Clarice, who has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a genuine prophet, or the tool of earthly powers This is a story of adventure and suspense set in the late medieval world. As in many of Peter Ackroyd's novels the distant past is no longer a foreign country but something alarmingly close and authentic. As one critic has put it, 'he is our age's greatest London imagination'. 224 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099468581ISBN 13: 9780099468585
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas, taking her restless husband Michael and her young son with her. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms. 208 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099459299ISBN 13: 9780099459293
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revealing portrait of the former Soviet Union taking an intimate look at the human faces behind radical socialism. '. one of the best books on Russia to appear in years' 'New York Times' 224 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099425157ISBN 13: 9780099425151
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold-fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of 'the colour', are violently rushing to their destinies. By turns both moving and terrifying, The Colour is about a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and explore the sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of happiness. 448 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099437872ISBN 13: 9780099437871
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Chis Willoughby (illustrator). Neuware - Account of Anderson's intrepid journey from Azerbaijan to Svaneti during the summer of 1998.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099459280ISBN 13: 9780099459286
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change. Thubron is an inspirational writer, intrepid traveller and insightful observer and his The Lost Heart of Asia is an outstanding guide to the history, people and culture of a vast region resonating with history and politics.