Category Archives: Travel Guides
Writing on the Edge
Powerful essays by such luminaries and literary giants as Daniel Day-Lewis and Martin Amis offer a compassionate look at the crises that most affect our world today. An important book for anyone interested in global issues, “Writing on the Edge” features twelve essays that take the reader to countries in crisis. Award-winning writer Martin Amis
Crisscrossing America:Discovering America From The Road
After purchasing his first motorcycle–a Harley-Davidson–in 2004, John Gussenhoven almost immediately planned an epic cross-country road trip, the kind that many dream about but few actually make. Crisscrossing America is a photographic journal of his two-year, two-leg journey crisscrossing the United States–from Mt. Vernon, Washington, to Naples, Florida, and from San Diego, California, to Eastport,
Harlem, A Century of Images
A century of Harlem, through the eyes and lenses of some of the most important artists and photographers of the twentieth century. The vibrant and bustling neighborhood occupying the upper reaches of Manhattan has been at the crossroads of the artistic, literary, and political currents of the African-American community since the early days of the
Mountains: Portraits of High Places
An inspiring collection of evocative images collected by lifelong mountaineer Sandy Hill, who has a singular knowledge, understanding, and experience of the world`s highest places. Powerful, beautiful, wild, sublime, and forbidding, the world`s summits are often considered the last real frontier. “Mountain” is a luxuriously illustrated celebration of mountains and of the sense of wonder
Painted Bodies
The seminal volume on body painting and adornment by the world`s preeminent photographers of African culture. Following the international masterpiece Africa Adorned, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have focused on the traditions of body painting spanning the vastly unique cultures of the African continent. In a contemporary world so fascinated with tattoos and piercings, Beckwith
Che`s Travels
Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice travelled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che`s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and
The Czech Reader
The Czech Reader brings together more than 150 primary texts and illustrations to convey the dramatic history of the Czechs, from the emergence of the Czech state in the tenth century, through the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and the Czech Republic in 1993, into the twenty-first century. The Slav-speaking Czechs have lived for more
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost its Mind and Found its Soul
The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolutionAs the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools
The Camera as Historian
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works
An American Dream: A Novel
In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner s Song. As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in
The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in English. The history of Chile is rendered from diverse perspectives, including those of Mapuche Indians and Spanish colonists, peasants and aristocrats, feminists and
The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping, the classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future–until, at
Camping Hawaii
Describes in detail 120 camping grounds on Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu and Kauai. As well and directions on how to get there and the facilities available, each entry includes advice on what to do and see in the area. Many of the campsites listed are free camps with just a time limit on how
Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
A panoramic view of Los Angeles history from 1542 to the present, told through a rich mosaic of diary entries and letters written by LA natives, transplants, and some just passing through, including Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein
Landfalls of Paradise: Cruising Guide To The Pacific Islands
Covering Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and the eastern Pacific islands of the Galapagos, this guide is a standard on all vessels cruising in the Pacific. Overall sketch charts of each group, plus a list of ports of entry, distances between ports, public holidays and special events, weather, currency, language, electricity, postal address for general delivery pickup
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking’”and an inspiring, bold plan for how we can solve them. A leading expert on modern-day slavery, Kevin Bales
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
“John Young has been at the center of human spaceflight since the mid-1960s, and his revealing autobiography speaks to internal issues, external possibilities, and the commitment of this individual to the movement of humanity beyond earth.”–Roger D. Launius, senior curator, space history, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum “Young covers over forty years of NASA
A History of Cambodia
This candid assessment, covering over 2000 years of Cambodian history, focuses on transformations and historic implications of myths surrounding these changes. In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the “Journal of Asian Studies” as an “original contribution,
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics” is an invaluable resource for those interested in learning about Argentine history and culture, whether in the classroom or in preparation for travel in Argentina.Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina – in all its complexity
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics` is a vivid introduction to muchos Mรฉxicos – the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveller, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico – including
