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Do karczmy, w ktorej pracuje Jim, przybywa stary kapitan z tajemnicza skrzynia. Gdy mezczyzna umiera, chlopak postanawia sprawdzic, co znajduje sie w skrzyni.W ten sposob Jim wchodzi w posiadanie mapy prowadzacej do skarbu. Wkrotce postanawia zorganizowac wyprawe po skarb, ktorego poszukuja rowniez dawni towarzysze zmarlego.Powiesc Roberta Louisa Stevensona zostala wydana po raz pierwszy w 1883 roku. Wczesniej byla publikowana w odcinkach na lamach czasopisma dla dzieci „Young Folks”. Wielokrotnie ekranizowana i wznawiana stala sie jedna z najbardziej znanych opowiesci o piratach, a takze nieprzerwanie obowiazujacym wzorcem dla wielu kolejnych historii o tej tematyce.

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An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa’s past. ‘The most enthralling account out of Africa for years.’ Daily Mail.‘“Livingstone’s Tribe” is excellent…Taylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion.’ Financial Times‘At the book’s heart is a riveting examination of Livingstone’s tribe…the whites of post-independence Africa.’ Independent on Sunday‘Taylor’s expedition into the interior of the continent’s colonial past has got everything that such a book should have.’ Guardian‘Stephen Taylor, a third-generation emigre of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits and failures…as well as a heroic, dwindling clutch of missionaries still holding the line. The catalogue of theft, corruption, murder and superstition that Taylor chronicles makes appalling, fascinating reading. Yet Taylor is no Colonel Blimp, rather an anti-apartheid liberal who fled the old South Africa and welcomed independence for Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.’ Daily Mail‘Sights and travel experiences are vividly described and people both from Livingstone’s and from the other tribes are handled particularly well.’ Sunday Times

David Crystal, one of the world’s leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. In this anthology of global proverbs Crystal brings his customary keen eye and linguistic expertise to this wonderfully rich topic.Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather, proverbial wisdom is a key factor in understanding different peoples and cultures. Here David Crystal, the world's leading commentator on language, takes us on a global tour of the world's proverbs. Whether you are in Andorra, China or Tierra del Fuego, there is a nugget of local wisdom to inform and entertain.Some proverbs to entertain:• When two elephants struggle, it is the grass which suffers. (Zanzibar)• One must chew according to one's teeth (Norway)• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance (Spain)• A blind man needs no looking glass (Scotland)• Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot (Ireland)• Don't call the alligator a big-mouth till you have crossed the river (Belize)• An untouched drum does not speak. (Liberia)• Do not try to borrow combs from shaven monks. (China)

A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of autobiographical journalism.Aidan Hartley, a foreign correspondent, burned-out from the horror of covering the terrifying micro wars of the 1990s, from Rwanda to Bosnia, seeks solace and solitude in the remote mountains and deserts of southern Arabia and the Yemen, following his father’s death. While there, he finds himself on the trail of the tragic story of an old friend of his father’s, who fell in love and was murdered in southern Arabia fifty years ago. As the terrible events of the past unfold, Hartley finds his own kind of deliverance.‘The Zanzibar Chest’ is a powerful story about a man witnessing and confronting extreme violence and being broken down by it, and of a son trying to come to terms with the death of a father whom he also saw as his best friend. It charts not only a love affair between two people, but also the British love affair with Arabia and the vast emptinesses of the desert, which become a fitting metaphor for the emotional and spiritual condition in which Hartley finds himself.