Adrian Praetzellis
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My First Summer in the Sierra (EN)
John Muir: “My First Summer in the Sierra” (1911) takes inspiration from Muir’s journals of the months he spent between June and September 1869 as a shepherd in the Sierras. Muir went on to built a cabin along Yosemite Creek, where he lived for two years. He des
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Klasická literatúra
Kim (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: “Kim” is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the British Empire, around the time of the Second Afghan War. It tells the story of the street-wise orphan Kimball O’Hara, a highly moral Irish-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed in the “Great Game” (a
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Detektívky
The Thirty-Nine Steps (EN)
John Buchan: “I returned to the City about three o‘clock on that Monday afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. ” So opens John Buchans The Thirty-Nine Steps and with it he creates a whole new g
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Dobrodružné romány
Treasure Island (EN)
Robert Louis Stevenson: When an old sea captain dies mysteriously in his parent‘s inn, young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the captain‘s possessions that will spark a wild and adventures treasure hunt. Joined by a handful of untrustworthy pirates, he meets the antagon