Author: Robert ColtonPublisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Rambles in Sweden and Gottland
Author: Robert ColtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Rambles in Sweden and Gottland: with etching by the way-side, by Sylvanus
Author: Robert ColtonGottland
Author: Mariusz SzczygielPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612193145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Winner of the Europe Book Prize One of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka—to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century. For example, there’s the story of the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company—and hired modernist giants such as Le Corbusier to design his company towns (which were also the birthplaces of Ivana Trump and Tom Stoppard). Or the story of Kafka’s niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the Communist regime so they could keep publishing. Or the story of the singer Karel Gott, winner of the country’s Best Male Vocalist Award thirty-six years in a row, whose summer home, Gottland, is the Czech Dollywood. Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with everyone from filmmakers to writers to pop stars to ordinary citizens, Gottland is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a resilient people living through difficult and often bizarre times—equally funny, disturbing, stirring and absurd . . . in a word, Kafkaesque. From the Hardcover edition.
A Geological Manual
Author: Henry Thomas De La BechePublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan ... with ... Engravings: Mixed sciences
Author: A Geographical Manual
Author: Sir Henry Thomas De la BechePublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A Geological Manual
Author: Henry Thomas De La BechePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108072550
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to geology, covering topics such as rock classification and fossils, written by a prominent nineteenth-century geologist.
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