Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Songs O9f Trees
In The Songs of Trees, award-winning nature writer David Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees` connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. In doing this he shows that every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from
Short Stories in Japanese and English – Parallel Text
Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction. Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time, this collection, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having to constantly consult a dictionary. Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are
Short Stories In Russian
A dual-language edition of Russian stories–many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without constantly having to refer to a dictionary. The stories–many of which appear here in English for
Short Stories in Chinese and English – Parallel Text
Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world`s most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel translations, offer students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer to a dictionary. Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are by both
Paris Versus New York
When Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, “Paris versus New York”, he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet – it garnered more than a million and a half page views in just a few months, and the attention of savvy online critics. Now
Columbus: The Four Voyages
He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between people. He ended his career in near lunacy.
Death of a Hero
One of the great World War I antiwar novels – honest, chilling, and brilliantly satiricalBased on the author`s experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington`s first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and
Devil on the Cross
One of the cornerstones of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngugi was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later
The Power of One
First with your head and then with your heart …So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, its a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings
Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America`s first `girl stunt reporter`. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world in emulation of Phileas Fogg. This volume, the only printed and edited collection of
First Pass Under Heaven
The Great Wall of China is the largest man-made structure ever built, stretching for over 4,000 kilometres from central Asia, across the Gobi Desert, through the remote, cold mountains of northern China to end on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Gray, a young New Zealand lawyer, wanted to be the first person in
The Dhama Bums
Published just one year after “On The Road”, this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
Rashomon
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan`s foremost stylists – a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. `Rashomon` and `In a Bamboo Grove` inspired Kurosawa`s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as `The Nose`, `O-Gin`
Kusamakura
Literally meaning `Pillow of Grass`, Kusamakura is Soseki`s portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. Soseki`s artist attempts to live as a hermit using other people as his stimuli for his sensations and reflections. The artist fluently and prolifically composes poetry, but finds himself unable to paint – despite
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor`s Son
Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his daughters` courtships and marriages, and the eventual menace of the pogroms, Sholem Aleichem reveals the fabric of
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck`s most widely read and beloved novels–“Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row,” and “The Pearl.” From Steinbeck`s tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in “Of Mice and Men,” to his tough
The Saga of Gosta Berling
One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerlof became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and best-loved novel, and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo to stardom. Set in 1820s
