Catálogo de libros: Viajes y vacaciones

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  • A Walk From London to Fulham (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Crofton Croker
    Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 - 8 August 1854) was an Irish antiquary, best known for his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-1828), and who also showed considerable interest in Irish song and music. Although Fairy Legends purported to be an anthology of tales Croker had collected on his field trips, he had lost his manuscript notes and the work ...
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  • A Tale of One City
    Thomas Anderton
    'The present century has seen the rise and development of many towns in various parts of the country, and among them Birmingham is entitled to take a front place. If Thomas Attwood or George Frederick Muntz could now revisit the town they once represented in Parliament they would probably stare with amazement at the changes that have taken place in Birmingham, and would require...
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    19,73 €

  • The Forerunners (Esprios Classics)
    Romain Rolland
    Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 - 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 'as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings'. He was a leading supporter of Josef Stali...
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    22,94 €

  • In the Riding-School (Esprios Classics)
    Theo. Stephenson Browne / TheoStephenson Browne
    'As you are an American, it is reasonable to presume that you desire to learn quickly; as you are youthful, it is certain that you earnestly wish to look pretty in the saddle, and as you are a youthful American, there is not a shadow of a doubt that your objections to authoritative teaching will be almost unconquerable, and that you will insist upon being treated, from the very...
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    19,86 €

  • The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects (Esprios Classics)
    Sedley Lynch Ware
    'These chapters are but part of a larger work on the Elizabethan parish designed to cover all the aspects of parish government. There is need of a comprehensive study of the parish institutions of this period, owing to the fact that no modern work exists that in any thorough way pretends to discuss the subject. The work of Toulmin Smith was written to defend a theory, while the...
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    19,79 €

  • Jack Wright and His Electric Stage (Esprios Classics)
    Noname
    Luis Philip Senarens (1865-1939) was an American dime novel writer specializing in science fiction, once called 'the American Jules Verne'. Around 1882, Senarens began writing new stories in the Frank Reade adventure story series begun by Harry Enton in 1868. Senarens introduced Frank Reade, Jr. as the new main character. The stories were very successful, and by the 1890s Senar...
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    22,94 €

  • Sunny Boy in the Big City (Esprios Classics)
    Ramy Allison White
    Ramy Allison White was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Syndicate was founded by Edward Stratemeyer and is best known for producing the Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Rover Boys, and Tom Swift series. The Syndicate produced these and many other series in assembly-line fashion: one person wrote the outline for a story or series of stories, another...
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    20,70 €

  • The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language (Esprios Classics)
    Sherwin Cody
    Alpheus Sherwin Cody (November 30, 1868 - April 4, 1959) was an American writer and entrepreneur who developed a long-running home-study course in speaking and writing and a signature series of advertisements asking 'Do You Make These Mistakes in English?' A critic of traditional English education, Cody advocated colloquial style and grammar. His course, presented in a patented...
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    22,99 €

  • The Story of Commodore John Barry (Esprios Classics)
    Martin I. J. Griffin / Martin IJGriffin
    Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin (1842-1911) was an American Catholic journalist and historian, instrumental to the founding of the American Catholic Historical Society. He contributed widely to scholarly journals and was the author of several books and monographs on the Catholic history of the United States. From an early age, Griffin became known as a regular contributor and ed...
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    20,69 €

  • The Tramping Methodist (Esprios Classics)
    Sheila Kaye-Smith
    Sheila Kaye-Smith (4 February 1887 - 14 January 1956) was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition. Her 1923 book The End of the House of Alard became a best-seller, and gave her prominence; it was followed by other successes, and her books enjoyed worldwide sales. Interest in her novel Joanna Godde...
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    24,46 €

  • A Bird-Lover in the West (Esprios Classics)
    Olive Thorne Miller
    Harriet Mann Miller (pen names Olive Thorne, Olive Thorne Miller; 25 June 1831 - 25 December 1918) was an American author, naturalist, and ornithologist. She wrote stories for leading magazines, and in her later years, devoted herself to the study of birds. Her first articles appeared under the pen-name 'Olive Thorne' before writing under the signature of 'Olive Thorne Miller'....
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    22,99 €

  • The Settlement of Wage Disputes (Esprios Classics)
    Herbert Feis
    Herbert Feis (June 7, 1893 - March 2, 1972) was an American historian, author, and economist who was the Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the US Department of State in the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations. Feis wrote at least 13 published books and won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 1961 for one of them, Between War and Peace: The Pot...
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    24,51 €

  • State Trials
    H. L. Stephen / HLStephen
    Sir Harry Lushington Stephen, 3rd Baronet (1860-1945), son of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, was born on 2 March 1860. He was educated at Rugby and graduated LLM from Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1904, he married Barbara, youngest daughter of W Shore Nightingale of Embley Romsey and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. He had one son. He was a member of the following clubs: Athenaeum, Oxford...
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    23,71 €

  • Among the Pines (Esprios Classics)
    Edmund Kirke
    James Roberts Gilmore (1822-1903) who also wrote under the pseudonym Edmund Kirke, was the author of: Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time (1862), My Southern Friends (1863), Down in Tennessee (1864) and On the Border (1867). ...
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    23,64 €

  • The Shield (Esprios Classics)
    Leonid Andreyev
    Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (1871 - 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. Andreyev’s style combines elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature. Andreyev’s first collec...
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    20,74 €

  • The Dark Descent
    Kimki Kita
    After the loss of her grandmother, Kokoro will face the biggest challenge of her life: psychosis. Based on true events, this autofiction will spiral you down the path of a mentally ill twenty-year-old in Southern Ontario, Canada, who has to fight for her sanity. ...
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    14,26 €

  • Sea and Sardinia (Esprios Classics)
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
    Sea and Sardinia is a travel book by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes a brief excursion undertaken in January 1921 by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, a. k. a. Queen Bee, from Taormina in Sicily to the interior of Sardinia. They visited Cagliari, Mandas, Sorgono, and Nuoro. His visit to Nuoro was a kind of homage to Grazia Deledda but involved no personal encounter....
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    22,90 €

  • Letters From China and Japan (Esprios Classics)
    John Dewey
    John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. The overriding theme of Dewey’s works was his profound belief in democracy, be it in politics, education, ...
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    20,73 €

  • A Rhapsody on Japan and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
    Onoto Watanna
    Winnifred Eaton was a Canadian author and screenwriter. Although she was of Chinese-British ancestry, she published under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna and under the name Winifred Reeve. In the early 1870s, the Eaton family left England to live in Hudson, New York, but stayed there only a short time before relocating to Montreal, where Winnifred was born. Her father stru...
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    18,38 €

  • Narrative and Legendary Poems (Esprios Classics)
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound. Whittier was first i...
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    18,47 €

  • Personal Poems (Esprios Classics)
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound. Whittier was first i...
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    18,47 €

  • The Fugitive (Esprios Classics)
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquets Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter from Bengal. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the 'profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse' of Gita...
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    19,64 €

  • Uncle Piper of Piper’s Hill (Esprios Classics)
    Tasma
    Jessie Catherine Couvreur (pseudonym Tasma) (28 October 1848 - 23 October 1897) was an Australian novelist. In 1873 she visited Europe, and between 1879 and 1883 spent much time there giving courses of lectures in French at various European cities. She also wrote for the Nouvelle Revue and received from the French government the decoration of Officier d’Académie. She revisited ...
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    27,45 €

  • Strange Pages from Family Papers (Esprios Classics)
    T. F. Thiselton-Dyer / TFThiselton-Dyer
    The Reverend Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer, MA, Oxon (25 July 1848 - 14 July 1923) was a son of William George Thiselton-Dyer, physician and of Catherine Jane, née Firminger. He was educated at King’s College School and at Pembroke College, Oxford. He was successively curate of St John’s Church, Fitzroy Square, curate of Holy Trinity Church, Kilburn, vicar of St Paul’s Church...
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    23,71 €

  • The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume III (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 - 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained a...
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    22,96 €

  • The Life of Gordon, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Demetrius C. Boulger / Demetrius CBoulger
    Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger (14 July 1853 - 15 December 1928) was a British author. He was born in Kensington to Brian Austin Boulger and Catherine de Kavanagh-Boulger. He was educated at the Kensington School. Beginning in 1876, Boulger contributed to the important British journals on questions concerning India, China, Egypt and Turkey and Congo. With Sir Lepel Griff...
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    24,46 €

  • Girl on the Edge
    Jacqueline Cox
    The sequel to Girl With a Suitcase finds Jackie a teenager, pregnant and alone. With no family to turn to, Jackie is forced into yet another institution-not a school but a home for single mothers-to-be. Shamed and shunned by society, the young girls there are expected to give up their babies for adoption. But it’s now the beginning of the 1960s and times are changing. Jackie be...
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    29,20 €

  • History and Culture of Vanuatu Island
    Robbie Hunter
    History and Culture of Vanuatu Island. People and Tradition. Vanuatu is a Pacific island adventure far beyond any notions of cruise-ship ports and flashy resorts. Deserted beaches, ancient culture, remote and rugged islands and world-class diving are just a small part of the magnetism of this scattered 80-plus island archipelago. Where else can you hike up a crater to stare dow...
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    36,03 €

  • The State of Libya
    Samuel Thomas
    The State of Libya. Once a Happy Nation. It may take time to fix the damage done by Libya’s civil war, but it will also require a significant amount of investment. The cost of the destruction wrought by the conflict will one day be counted as the value of investment that is required to achieve recovery. Libya’s extensive energy resources and relatively small population, along w...
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    35,88 €

  • Tales, Tall and Short, About Food in Peru
    Mikkela Thompson
    M’s Adventures in Peru -- Tales, Tall and Short, About Food in Peru are stories and history about food and restaurants in Peru. The author lived in Peru for several years and ate at over 100 restaurants in Lima. ...
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    16,37 €


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