This guide takes the visitor to this spectacularly beautiful area that is a possible site for the 2006 Olympics, and also provides a comprehensive survey of the region's history, geography, architecture, music and folk art, costumes, cuisine, legends and customs as well as fishing, hiking, mountain climbing and other leisure activities. The author organises the main attractions of the area in tours, which are perfect diversions for Polish descendants to visit their native land. Photographs, illustrations, and line drawings ...
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This guide takes the visitor to this spectacularly beautiful area that is a possible site for the 2006 Olympics, and also provides a comprehensive survey of the region's history, geography, architecture, music and folk art, costumes, cuisine, legends and customs as well as fishing, hiking, mountain climbing and other leisure activities. The author organises the main attractions of the area in tours, which are perfect diversions for Polish descendants to visit their native land. Photographs, illustrations, and line drawings along with maps and useful appendices portray the historical development of the region.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 309pp. Illus. Translated by Maria Gieysztor de Gorgey. A little spotting to top edge only. A very pleasing copy. (r25)
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0781805228. Translated from the Polish by Maria Giesztor de Gorgey. First edition thus. About fine in like dust jacket.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A fascinating history of the Podhale region of the Tatra Mountains in Poland, discussing the people and geography there, their traditions and culture, music, folk art, costumes, cuisine, legends, cuustoms, leisure activities which typically involve hiking, fishing, and mountain climbing, much more. Translated from the Polish by Maria de Gorgey Hardcover with dust jacket, contains glossy illustrations, appendices, indexed, listings of related Polish works, 309pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Very rare. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.