Island in Time, An, Mak, Geert

Автор: Mak, Geert
Название: In Europe
ISBN: 009951673X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099516736
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica.

Автор: Mak, Geert
Название: In America: Travels with John Steinbeck
ISBN: 1846557038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846557033
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 13190.00 T
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Описание: In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green GMC pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans. The truck was named Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse, and Steinbeck was Cervantes' foolhardy knight. America was looking to the future, full of optimism and desperate to leave behind the troubles of past; Steinbeck, great chronicler of the ordinary working man, was starting to feel out of touch.

As he said to a friend: `I must see how the country looks and smells and sounds.' The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books. Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck's home in his own Rocinante, with his wife and his sat-nav Sandy. Mile after mile, as he retraces Steinbeck's footsteps through the potato fields of Maine to the endless prairies of the Midwest, sits down to eat with farmers, workers, fisherman and teachers, stumbles across glistening suburbs and boarded-up stores, he searches for the roots of America and what remains of the restless, prosperous world Steinbeck describes.

Part biography, part cultural history, In America asks how America has changed in the last 50 years; what's happened to Main Street, USA, and the American dream; and what do we, Europe and America, still have in common in the twenty-first century?

Автор: Mak, Geert
Название: In America
ISBN: 0099578735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099578734
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books. Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck`s home.

Автор: Mak, Geert
Название: Amsterdam
ISBN: 186046789X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781860467899
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.

Автор: Mak Geertje
Название: Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories
ISBN: 0719089972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719089978
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. -- .