A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship that paints a portrait of one of the world's greatest cities, Renaissance Venice, at its most potent moment in history.
In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the effects of Libyan strongman Khadafy's 1969 September revolution. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.
In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz
: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
by Michela Wrong
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
"Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land". "This book will become a classic"
In the Heart of the Sea
: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Hardcover: May 2000
Paperback: May 2001
Tells perhaps the greatest sea story ever - an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick.
In the Kingdom of Ice
: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by Hampton Sides
Hardcover: Aug 2014
Paperback: May 2015
New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age. Winner of the 2014 BookBrowse Award for Nonfiction.
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