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  • White Jaguar 4
    Arkady Fiedler / Tom Pinch
    The best-selling saga continues!As the clan of the White Jaguar breaks off from the tribe and starts its own independent political existence, new complications arise: enter an epidemic, native slavers, and English interlopers. Survival hangs in the balance.Plus--some Arawak myths, more encounters with the weird nature of the Orinoco jungle, and the occasional flash of literary ...
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    10,07 €

  • Mr. Wheels and the Mysteries of the City of Copernicus
    Zbig Nienacki / Tom Pinch
    Mr. Wheels has been a huge smash hit in Eastern Europe for decades. 160 volumes of fan fiction (!), three cinematic releases (including one in 2023), two TV series.But never a peep in English!?Until now.In February 1945, the Soviet Front came suddenly to Frombork, the city of Copernicus on the Baltic. Too suddenly for SS Colonel Koenig to get away with his loot. In panic, the m...
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    14,07 €

  • Mr. Wheels and the Templar Treasure
    Zbig Nienacki / Tom Pinch
    Mr. Wheels has been a huge smash hit in Europe for decades. 160 volumes of fan fiction (!), three cinematic releases (including one in 2023), two TV series.But never a peep in English!Until now.(drum roll)Voice One, dramatic: In 1310, King Philip the Fair of France found himself short of cash and decided to destroy the Order of Knights Templar and burn its members at the stake ...
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    13,09 €

  • The Thirteenth Apostle
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    A highly readable account of the life and career of Constantine the Great--one of the most influential Roman Emperors--from one of the best-read European scholars of antiquity. The book traces the emperor’s political career as well as his religious development from a worshipper of Sol Invictus-Apollo to an avid Christian. It does so against a rich tapestry of the economic reali...
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    14,14 €

  • Rome and Jerusalem
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    From Europe’s legendary scholar of antiquity, finally in English.The great denouement of everything: nations fall, loves die.Ecce terminus est: the conclusion of the Jewish Trilogy and of the story of Titus and Berenice.Following the Maccabee rebellion, one hundred years of wars reestablished the Kingdom of the Jews. Under Herod, it enjoyed thirty years of peace. Sixty years la...
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    14,02 €

  • Herod King of the Jews
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    Herod was an Idumean, a half-Jew at best; a monster; a killer; a ruthless political operator. He was also his people’s great benefactor and the last Jew to rule all of Palestine in antiquity.There have been scores of books on the subject of Herod. Is there any reason to have another one?Oh, yes! And how!First of all, no other biography of Herod situates him within the Graeco-Ro...
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    15,61 €

  • White Jaguar 2
    Arkady Fiedler / Tom Pinch
    n international best-seller since 1957, now finally in English.The Northern Coast of South America. Year of Our Lord 1727.A rag-tag band of slaves--Indians and Africans--runaways from the Caribbean island of Margarita, travel a thousand miles by land and sea from the Caribbean into the depths of the Orinoco Delta in search of their promised land: a new home. Along the way, they...
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    9,26 €

  • White Jaguar 1
    Arkady Fiedler / Tom Pinch
    Who are you, really?A timeless European classic. 7 million copies in 7 languages. Three generations of fans. And now finally in English!An extraordinary tale set in an extraordinary land.In 1726, a Polish-Virginian in trouble with the law took to the sea and was stranded on an uninhabited Caribbean island. His only desire was to survive and find a way back to his civilization. ...
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    9,32 €

  • Tiberius Caesar
    Jacek Bocheński / Tom Pinch
    A great work of literature and a profound reflection on state terror from a man who spent forty years fighting one.Tiberius Caesar--a free standing work in its own right--completes Bocheński’s Notorious Roman Trilogy--probably the most important literary work to come out of Eastern Europe since World War II.After the picaresque volume 1, Divine Julius (how to overthrow a republ...
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    26,45 €

  • A Meeting in Oea, or Concerning Plato
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    The quirkiest, zaniest, funniest book about Plato ever written by a scholar. Or anyone.Meet Apuleius, Rome’s all-time best-selling author (of The Golden Ass, no less!), a Platonic scholar, a part-time magician, and a dowry-hunter, as he works on his treatise on Plato at night and schemes to marry a rich African widow by day.And see Plato’s life and work through the eyes of an e...
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    13,46 €

  • The Last Olympiad
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    The Serapeum destroyed, the emperor murdered, pagans raise a revolt!The best-selling European author of books on Greaco-Roman antiquity paints a rich and highly readable panorama of the intellectual life of the Roman Empire of the period of the Last Olympic Games of antiquity (AD389-AD393). Here they are, debating topics ranging from the moral consequences of bathing and chario...
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    13,40 €

  • Berlin Blue
    Zbig Zbikowski / Tom Pinch
    Can’t go forward without going back. Cold Warriors return to Berlin to settle old scores.This place, West Berlin, was then (1980-1989) an enclave: an island of the free democratic West in the heart of communist East Germany.As such, it was a refuge for many: young German men avoiding compulsory military service in the Bundeswehr, migratory birds, asylum seekers from the communi...
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    11,04 €

  • Naso the Poet
    Jacek Bocheński / Tom Pinch
    Rome’s greatest poet was sent into exile for life and his works were consigned to damnatio memoriae -- eternal forgetting. But they weren’t forgotten. Readers touched by their beauty preserved their precious volumes and copied them by hand so that the literature which had offended the government of Rome may yet live on forever. And it has.But who was Ovid? And what crime did he...
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    20,96 €

  • An Expendable Soul
    Maria Rodziewiczówna / Tom Pinch
    Move over Turgenev and Dostoevsky!In 1891, 27-year-old Maria Rodziewiczówna put pen to paper to record her experiences as a political exile in Siberia: the severity and beauty of nature, the extraordinary life of the steppe, the daily struggle to survive, and the fates of the exiles: some withering and dying, some barely eking out a living, and some adapting, thriving and even-...
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    13,78 €

  • Seven Against Thebes
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    Seven Against Thebes was one of the most important myths of antiquity: in The Iliad, Agamemnon and Diomedes kept referring to its heroes as their personal ideals. For the next two thousand years, it was the subject of countless poetic and dramatic works. One of Europe’s best-selling authors of books on antiquity discusses the myth, its roots in the Bronze Age, its historical tr...
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    18,52 €

  • Divine Julius
    Jacek Bocheński / Tom Pinch
    'Would you like to become a god? This is perfectly doable.'So starts this fascinating glimpse into the minds of Julius Caesar and his two great opponents, Cicero and Cato the Younger, written in the award winning brisk style imitating Caesar’s own. A portrait of the overwhelming drive to power on the one hand and the heart-wrenching moral compromise on the other.A great critica...
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    18,73 €

  • A Summer of the Forest Folk
    Maria Rodziewiczówna / Tom Pinch
    'Irresistibly charming. There’s something of The Wind in the Willows, something of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, something of Swallows and Amazons, and something uniquely its own as well,' A Goodreads review.A cult classic tale of life in the forest, a European best-seller, never out of print, 52 editions in 102 years, now for the first time in English.Thre...
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    18,65 €

  • Out of the Lion’s Maw
    Tom Pinch / Witold Makowiecki
    A European bestseller, in print continuously since 1946, now for the first time in English.An elderly Zoroastrian priest and his teenage apprentice. A dark plot to foment a civil war. Can the two thwart it?570 BC. The Old Mountain Lion, the predatory king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, has destroyed empires, razed cities, driven whole nations into slavery. Now, he sews discord in ...
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    21,05 €

  • Wind from the Hospitable Sea
    Tom Pinch / Witold Makowiecki
    A European bestseller, in print continuously since 1946.In extraordinary times, twelve-year-old boys must act like men.Greece 562 BC. For insolvent debtors, the price of bankruptcy is slavery. When his mother and siblings are seized for unpaid debts, little Diossos must run to fetch help. He must cross mountains, forests, and stormy seas, brave wild animals, slave-catchers, pir...
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    17,47 €