travels

“Free Air” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Free Air” is a road novel about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up...

“Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays“ is a collection of 9 essays and a number of articles written by George Orwell. The collection consists of these titles: Shooting an Elephant,...

Zbigniew Herbert kilkukrotnie podróżował do Grecji, gdzie odwiedził najważniejsze, fundamentalne dla greckiej kultury i tradycji europejskiej miejsca, jak Ateny, Delfy, Korynt, Mykeny, Spartę. Podróże te zaowocowały esejami i wierszami, które pokazują fascynację poety kulturą grecką. Książka stanowi próbę opisania najważniejszych wątków oraz specyfiki greckiego podróżopisarstwa Zbigniewa Herberta na...

This book takes us from the early childhood to the last days of George Lemaîitre, the man behind the theory of the primeval atom, now better known as Big Bang theory. But who was George Lemaître? A clergyman, a genius astronomer, an audacious cosmologist, a computer enthusiast ahead of his time, a professor with his head in the clouds, a bon vivant mathematician and gourmand? Dominique Lambert's book...