Category Archives: Travel Guides
Epic Vegan: Wild and Over-the-Top Plant-Based Recipes
Not Your Granny`s Home Cookin`!`Epic Vegan` offers a step-by-step guide to creating timeless comfort foods that are over-the-top delicious, and always plant based. Think classic and nostalgic, yet messy, juicy, and Instagram-worthy at the same time. Are you into playing with your food? `Epic Vegan` does just that, encouraging home cooks to think outside of
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
On August 1, 1944, Miron Bialoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit
Off The Rails: A Train Trip Through Life
In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains–and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity.”I`ve gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I`ve watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I`ve met more people on trains
Autobiography Of A Corpse
Virtually unpublished during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky`s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables have since 1989 earned him a reputation as one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century. Included in this collection of eleven newly translated tales are some of his strangest and most brilliant conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to
The Bridge of Beyond
In this intoxicating tale of love and madness, mothers and daughters, folkloric wisdom and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe, aged yet unbowed Telumee tells her life story, along with that of the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from, even in their physical absence.
Passage Through India
In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder, with his former wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India “to see the hearth-land of the Buddha`s teachings.” As always, Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case, also wrote
Zama
First published in 1956, `Zama` is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature.Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, `Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de
Agostino
Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance
Midnight in the Century
In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin`s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for `Midnight in the Century`, Serge`s searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalin`s betrayal of the revolution.
Naked Earth
Set in the early years of Mao`s China, `Naked Earth` is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change. Liu Ch`รผan and Su Nan meet in the countryside after volunteering to assist in the new land reform program. Eager to build a more just society, they are puzzled and
More Was Lost: A Memoir
Best known for her classic book `Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden`, Eleanor Perรฉnyi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. `More Was Lost` is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the early days of World War II, after her return to the United States. In 1937, at the age
Amsterdam Stories
J. H. F. Gronloh was a successful Dutch businessman, executive of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and father of four, with a secret life: under the pseudonym Nescio (Latin for “I don`t know”), he wrote a series of short stories that went unrecognized at the time but that are now widely considered the best prose ever
Tyrant Banderas
Translated by Peter BushThe first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garcia Marquez`s `The Autumn of the Patriarch` and Roa Bastos`s `I, the Supreme`, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramon del Valle-Inclan, one of the masters
Taka-Chan and I: A Dog`s Journey to Japan
A tale of adventure, loyalty, daring escapes, friendship, and honor, Taka-chan and I has it all. One day, Runcible, a Weimeraner, digs a hole from his home on Cape Cod all the way to Japan. There he meets Taka-chan, a little girl imprisoned by a seadragon who is angry that fishermen like Taka-chan`s father no
Minik: The New York Eskimo: An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People
In 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary brought six Polar Inuit, intended to serve as live `specimens` at the American Museum of Natural History, to New York. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained.
Young Man With A Horn
Dorothy Baker`s `Young Man with a Horn` is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it courses with the verve and swing of the music that defined an era. From the beginning, Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn`t matter to
Cartography.
A lavishly illustrated reference guide, Cartography. by Kenneth Field is an inspiring and creative companion along the nonlinear journey toward making a great map. This sage compendium for contemporary mapmakers distills the essence of cartography into useful topics, organized for convenience in finding the specific idea or method you need. Unlike books targeted to deep
The Skin
Translated by Rachel Kushner”It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte`s own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel, in which the contradictions inherent in any attempt to simultaneously conquer and liberate a
