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pro vyhledávání: '"TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern"'
Autor:
Constantin Ardeleanu
Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads an
Autor:
Jan Mrázek
Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two
Autor:
Cameron Hewitt
Write guidebooks, make travel TV, lead bus tours? Cameron Hewitt has been Rick Steves'right hand for more than 20 years, doing just that. The Temporary European is a collection of vivid, entertaining travel tales from across Europe. Cameron zips you
Autor:
Boris Loza, PH.D
Dolmens are mysterious stone structures scattered around previously inaccessible parts of Russia. Built by an ancient megalithic culture, these structures have been both revered and looted for centuries. Very little is known about these stone creatio
Autor:
Tania Romanov
What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov's story. Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans. It follows the l
Autor:
Daniel J. Walkowitz
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish socialist movement played a vital role in protecting workers'rights throughout Europe and the Americas. Yet few traces of this movement or its accomplishments have been preserved or mem
Autor:
Christopher Knowles
The Red Line is the story of a train journey from London to Hong Kong. It is set in 1981, the year Christopher made the first of twenty-four such journeys as a tour guide, when the Cold War was still very much a fact of life. Although China appeared
Autor:
Dan Murdoch
Cambodia is a long way from Germany - thousands of miles, as it turns out. And in between are some of the world's highest mountains, most inhospitable deserts and least welcoming countries. Trying to make the journey overland was always going to be d
Autor:
Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to
Autor:
Wendy Bracewell
Excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c. pilgrimage diaries thru early specimens of modern tourism accounts to 20th c. impressions from the other side of the Iron Curtain By focusing on east European travel writings, this work e