After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and...
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Author:Millard, CandiceSummary: -
Author:Mowat, ClaireSummary:This biography describes life in a small Newfoundland outport as Claire and Farley Mowat found it in the 1960's, before it was touched by the modern worl.
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Author:LEAVITT, DavidSummary:This account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily' begins by asking why Florence has always proven to be such a popular destination for suicides, then moves into an analysis of what makes the city, in Henry James's...
- Author:Fabijančić, TonySummary:
Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the...
- Author:Celia BrayfieldSummary:
Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South...
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Author:Lyons, Stephen J.Summary:Collection of essays about life in the Inland Northwest - the region between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains, encompassing parts of Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, Northwest Montana, and Northeast Oregon.
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Author:BLASI, Marlena deSummary:A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, Marlena de Blasi thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet, within a few months she quits her job, sells her house, kisses her two grown-up children goodbye and moves to Venice to...
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Author:Morris, RoySummary:Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the...
