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  • Sherlock Holmes Missing Years: Timbuktu

    podle Vasudev Murthy ...
    Série Kniha 2 - The Missing Years
    "This story has great richness of voice and will take you on a fascinating journey. It is both an adventure and a colourful experience." —Calvert Markham, Treasurer of the Sherlock Holmes Society of LondonStill wondering what Sherlock Holmes was doing between his reported death at Reichenbach and his reappearance in The Empty House? Only Dr. Watson knew the truth. From 1891 to 1894, Sherlock ... Přečtěte si více

    203,49 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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  • Garment of Shadows

    A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

    podle Laurie R. King ...
    Série Kniha 12 - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLaurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance in a perilous part of the world, each racing against time to prevent an explosive catastrophe that could clothe them both in shrouds.In a strange ... Přečtěte si více

    192,79 Kč

  • O Jerusalem

    A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

    podle Laurie R. King ...
    Série Kniha 5 - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
    At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft."Gentlemen, we are at your service." Thus Holmes greets the two travel-grimed Arab figures who receive them in the orange groves fringing the Holy Land. Whatever role could the volatile Ali and ... Přečtěte si více

    192,79 Kč

  • The Yacoubian Building

    A Novel

    podle Alaa Al Aswany ...
    August Book Sense PickA fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed 'scientist of women.' A purring, voluptuous siren. A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for accepting the modest banknotes he tucks into her pocket afterward. An earnest, devout young doorman, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism. A cynical, secretly gay newspaper editor, helplessly ... Přečtěte si více

    300,19 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Desert Queen

    podle Janet Wallach ...
    The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. • With a new Afterword • "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." —The Boston GlobeHere is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited ... Přečtěte si více

    212,19 Kč

  • The Road to Oxiana

    podle Robert Byron ...
    In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now ... Přečtěte si více

    235,79 Kč

  • The Map of Love

    podle Ahdaf Soueif ...
    In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause.A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif's secret. ... Přečtěte si více

    256,69 Kč

  • Samarkand

    podle Amin Maalouf ...
    A gripping historical novel set in 11th century Persia that imagines the life of poet and philosopher Omar KhayyamAccused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genius, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to ... Přečtěte si více

    244,59 Kč

  • Travels with a Tangerine

    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic ... Přečtěte si více

    279,59 Kč

  • The Letters of Gertrude Bell

    podle Gertrude Bell ...
    Gertrude Bell, happily for her family and friends, was one of the people whose lives can be reconstructed from correspondence.Through all her wanderings, whether far or near, she kept in the closest touch with her home, always anxious to share her experiences and impressions with her family, to chronicle for their benefit all that happened to her, important or unimportant: whether a stirring tale ... Přečtěte si více

    48,29 Kč

  • Late for Tea at the Deer Palace

    The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

    podle Tamara Chalabi ...
    A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family’s tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present.The Chalabis are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Iraq. For centuries they have occupied positions of honour and responsibility, loyally serving first the Ottoman Empire and, later, the national government.In ‘Late for Tea at the Deer Palace’, Tamara Chalabi explores ... Přečtěte si více

    707,39 Kč

  • The Days

    His Autobiography in Three Parts

    podle Taha Hussein ...
    **Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is difficult to overstate Taha Hussein's contribution to the intellectual renaissance in Egypt during the 20th century."—The Guardian**The monumental three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest ... Přečtěte si více

    355,29 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus