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Rory MacLean

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Lacná kniha Letět jako Ikaros (-95%)


Jednoho větrného jarního rána v prastaré krétské vesnici obklopené horami, spadl Rory MacLean na zem. Před několika měsíci mu zemřela matka, a ze žalu se zrodila touha: touha postavit létající stroj, lehký jako pírko. A tak se MacLean na ostrově, ze kterého vzlétli Daidalos a Ikaros, vrátil zpátky ke kořenům, do dávných řeckých mýtů, a s pomocí velkorysých, avšak nepředvídatelných sousedů a spousty vína postavil letadlo, na němž se pokusil vzlétnout…
Na sklade 1Ks
0,57 € 11,33 €

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Letět jako Ikaros


Jednoho větrného jarního rána v prastaré krétské vesnici obklopené horami, spadl Rory MacLean na zem. Před několika měsíci mu zemřela matka, a ze žalu se zrodila touha: touha postavit létající stroj, lehký jako pírko. A tak se MacLean na ostrově, ze kterého vzlétli Daidalos a Ikaros, vrátil zpátky ke kořenům, do dávných řeckých mýtů, a s pomocí velkorysých, avšak nepředvídatelných sousedů a spousty vína postavil letadlo, na němž se pokusil vzlétnout…
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10,76 € 11,33 €

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Berlin


BERLIN is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centres of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realized and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful, and fallen so low; few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Rory MacLean assembles a dazzlingly eclectic cast of Berliners over five centuries, from the wild medieval balladeer to the ambitious prostitute who refashioned herself as a royal princess, from the Scottish mercenary who fought for the Prussian Army to the fearful Communist Party functionary who helped to build the Wall. Alongside them we encounter Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality in The Blue Angel, Goebbels concocting Nazi iconography, Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania and David Bowie recording 'Heroes'. Through these vivid portraits, Rory MacLean masterfully evokes the seen and the unseen, in a richly varied, unexpected tour of Berlin's history. The result is a unique biography of one of the world's most volatile and creative cities.
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16,63 € 17,50 €

Berlin


The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Through vivid portraits spanning five centuries, Rory MacLean reveals the varied and rich history of Berlin, from its brightest to its darkest moments. We encounter an ambitious prostitute refashioning herself as a princess, a Scottish mercenary fighting for the Prussian Army, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania. The result is a uniquely imaginative biography of one of the world's most volatile yet creative cities.
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14,20 € 14,95 €

Pravda Ha Ha


Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carre In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were - for most Brits and Americans - part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists - both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists - have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.
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13,25 € 13,95 €