A personal, detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire at the point of collapse. Kapuściński begins with his own childhood memories of the postwar Soviet occupation of Pinsk, in what was then Poland's eastern frontier, and takes us up to 1967, when, as a journalist just starting out, he traveled across Siberia and through the Soviet Union's seven southern and Central Asian republics, territories whose individual histories,...

"Oto Polska" to seria ksiazek krajoznawczych, które w przystepny sposób przyblizaja dzieciom Polske. Dzieki tej serii mlodzi czytelnicy beda mogli poznac najwazniejsze wydarzenia w historii Polski i najwybitniejszych Polaków, dowiedza sie, gdzie warto pojechac i co zwiedzic, a takze jakie odkrycia i wynalazki sa udzialem Polaków. W tomie ,,Najciekawsze miejsca" dzieci dowiedza sie, dokad warto pojechac, aby poznac najpiekniejsza polska przyrode...

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State -- and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little...

Luscious and evocative, The Umbrian Supper Club recounts the stories of a small group of Umbrian women who - sometimes with their men and, as often, without them - gather in an old stone house in the hills above Orvieto to cook, to sit down to a beautiful supper, to drink their beloved local wines. And to talk.