travel

The Italian Watch is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to its fullest. Throughout the book, he is constantly returning to the beauty and delights of Italian life, despite being too often significant shortcomings. Venice and Rome are undergoing the most extensive treatment.

Kipling wrote the first novel, “The Light That Failed” in many ways an autobiographical novel, having already gained fame with his poems and stories. In addition to the novel and selected stories from collections of different years, the book includes the story “Brave Captains” - about the romance and hardships of sea travel, the formation of the character of a young man, about metamorphoses that occur...

Haggard wrote the story „Red Eve” in six months. In it, we meet Sir Hugh de Cressi, the son of a merchant who is in love with Eve. She, too, is in love with him, but a traitor knight Sir Edmund Acour is caring for her. He realizes that he cannot conquer her feelings and gives her a potion. The result is that she did marry him. But how long will this potion act? Unlike other stories, where events are...

Co naprawdę wydarzyło się pod K2? Niezwykła reporterska opowieść o Narodowej Zimowej Wyprawie na K2 i lodowych wojownikach. K2. Góra zabójca. Ci, którym udało się ją zdobyć, mówią jednym głosem: to najtrudniejsza góra świata, zimą nikt jej nie pokona. No chyba że… Polacy. Tej bitwy nie można było przegrać. Oblegana przez Polaków – po raz trzeci zimą – K2, musiała się w końcu poddać. Od...