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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling a teenage dream. At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, twice. On a do-it-yourself community service trip in college, he went to East Africa--a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike part of the world in the throes...
Author
Publisher
The Countryman Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; cm
Description
"In Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, J. W. Ocker explores Poe's strange physical legacy along the East Coast and across the ocean by touring Poe's homes, examining artifacts from his life--locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, the bed where his wife died--and traveling to the many memorials dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. Along the way, Ocker meets Poe fans from a range of backgrounds and professions--actors,...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
v, 264 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Description
The daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath recalls how she moved to the countryside to start a new life, but instead found herself rescuing a baby magpie and embarking on an unlikely journey toward joy and connection. When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her poetry column for The Times (London), and possibly even breathing new life into her...
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"Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer. His efforts to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia, mirrored his struggle to form a new nation. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout the book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and his thoughts on slavery."--From publisher description.
49) Hearst's dream
Author
Publisher
EZ Nature Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
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Series
Publisher
Roaring Forties Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
209 pages
Description
"Take a journey into how California influenced Steinbeck's creative process and how, in turn, his legacy has influenced modern California. Literary pilgrims will learn about the land's prominent role in Steinbeck's work; tourists can visit the same buildings that he lived in and wrote about; and history buffs will appreciate the engrossing perspective on daily life in early 20th-century California"--
51) François Halard
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustrations ; cm
Description
"Included in this ... volume are Halard's images of the ... homes of the most important tastemakers, artists, and designers of the twentieth century: Axel Vervoordt, Roger Vivier, Richard Avedon, the Duchess of Devonshire, Julian Schnabel, Schiaparelli, Carlo Mollino, Balthus, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, and many more, including Halard's own homes in New York, Paris, and Arles. Photographed in his inimitable "grand manner,"...
52) Arabian sands
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xvii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
Description
Born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated in England, from 1945 Wilfred Thesiger spent five years exploring in and around the vast, waterless desert, the 'Empty Quarter' of Arabia. Travelling amongst the Bedu people, he experienced their everyday challenges of hunger and thirst, the trials of long marches beneath the relentless sun, the bitterly cold nights and the constant danger of death if it was discovered he was a Christian 'infidel'. He was the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xii, 166 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor," or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice--Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xi, 339 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Details a three-month period in 1888 when Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh shared a small yellow house in the south of France, describing how these two master artists worked together until Van Gogh suffered a devastating psychological crisis.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
"As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived. And though, when he came of age and took up residence there,...
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