Rambles in Sweden and Gottland
Author : Robert Colton
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Sweden
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Author : Robert Colton
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Sweden
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Author : Robert Colton
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : Mariusz Szczygiel
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1612193145
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.
Author : Henry Thomas De La Beche
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Geology
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Author : Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Geology
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Author : Henry Thomas De La Beche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108072550
A comprehensive guide to geology, covering topics such as rock classification and fossils, written by a prominent nineteenth-century geologist.
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Page : 980 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Edward Smedley
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Page : 920 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 918 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1845
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Page : 914 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1845
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