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River of No Reprieve

Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544277295
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book River of No Reprieve written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of In Putin’s Footsteps chronicles a deadly trek through the icy Russian region known for gulags and isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He is searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges that typify modern Russian culture, but instead he finds the roots of that culture—in Cossack villages unchanged for centuries, in Soviet outposts full of listless drunks, in stark ruins of the gulag, and in grand forests hundreds of miles from the nearest hamlet. That’s how far Tayler is from help when he realizes that his guide, Vadim, a burly Soviet army veteran embittered by his experiences in Afghanistan, detests all humanity, including Tayler. Yet he needs Vadim’s superb skills if he is to survive a voyage that quickly turns hellish. They must navigate roiling whitewater in howling storms, eschewing life jackets because, as Vadim explains, the frigid water would kill them before they could swim to shore. Though Tayler has trekked by camel through the Sahara and canoed down the Congo during the revolt against Mobutu, he has never felt so threatened as he does now. Praise for River of No Reprieve “This is a fiercely evocative account of an astonishing journey, wrenched out of near-disaster.” —Colin Thubron, author of In Siberia and The Lost Heart of Asia “Nonfiction adventure at its best. A page-turner from cover to cover.” —Adventure Journey “Reads like a Dantean tour of purgatory, providing a gloomily beautiful glimpse of nature—and humanity—at its bleakest edges.” —Men’s Journal

Going Places

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 161069385X
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Murderers in Mausoleums

Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618799916
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Murderers in Mausoleums written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the vast expanse of remote, challenging terrain from the steppes of southern Russia and the turbulent Caucasus Mountains to the deserts of central Asia and northern China to reveal the diverse lands and peoples of the region.

Book Lust to Go

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570617015
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Book Lust to Go written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe. From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region’s unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure — no passport required.

Ledyard

Author : Bill Gifford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151012183
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Ledyard written by Bill Gifford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction

Author : Neal Wyatt
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 9780838909362
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction written by Neal Wyatt and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating what at she calls the " extravagantly rich world of nonfiction," renowned readers' advisor (RA) Wyatt builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to compelling and increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports. Within each, she explains the scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and the subject's position in readers' advisory interviews. Wyatt addresses who is reading nonfiction and why, while providing RAs with the tools and language to incorporate nonfiction into discussions that point readers to what to read next. In easy-to-follow steps, Wyatt Explains the hows and whys of offering fiction and nonfiction suggestions together Illustrates ways to get up to speed fast in nonfiction Shows how to lead readers to a variety of books using her "read-around" and "reading map" strategies Provides tools to build nonfiction subject guides for the collection This hands-on guide includes nonfiction bibliography, key authors, benchmark books with annotations, and core collections. It is destined to become the nonfiction 'bible' for readers' advisory and collection development, helping librarians, library workers, and patrons select great reading from the entire library collection!

From the River's Edge

Author : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Publisher : Living Justice Press
ISBN 13 : 1937141136
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book From the River's Edge written by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and published by Living Justice Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orignally published: New York: Arcade Pub., 1991.

Facing the Congo

Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780349114507
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Congo written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Abacus (UK). This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book transports readers into the jungles and crocodile-infested waters of sub-Saharan Africa. The author travels a river barge teeming with merchants, mothers, prostitutes, fishermen, and spiritual followers, then launches his quest to confront the Congo River by descending its longest navigational stretch.

Three Rivers

Author : Dan Lee
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476691908
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Three Rivers written by Dan Lee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows. Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers.

Celebrant

Author : D. Lambert
Publisher : 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644504030
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Celebrant written by D. Lambert and published by 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The line between enemy and ally blurs... Tohmas Galanth has arrived in the north, outnumbered on every front. To survive his commitments to his besieged uncle, he must defeat the hoards, but DoomDragon is no easy foe and his battles are fought in steady retreat. To end the decade-long war, Tohmas must survive assassinations, betrayals, spies, and the crumbling morale of his trapped men. His staunchest allies will become his greatest threats as the winter looms.

The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 1 (2005)

Author : Congjie Liang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004156364
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 1 (2005) written by Congjie Liang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-05-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This yearbook from the publishing wing of CASS features voices of experts and witnesses from the People's Republic of China describing and commenting upon the environment and protection measures in the PRC in 2005. This work can also serve as a primary source for analysis of the political climate for NGOs and public intellectual and policy discourse China"--Provided by publisher.

The Publishers Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Siberian Dawn

Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Ruminator Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Siberian Dawn written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Ruminator Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No guidebook existed for my route; no one had ever done it before", writes Tayler. As the first American to visit many of the places he goes, his reports on a country in transition are timely and unforgettable. It is also the account of one man's love for a fragile, desperately troubled country.

The Line Becomes a River

Author : Francisco Cantú
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735217726
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Line Becomes a River written by Francisco Cantú and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.

Let Us Descend

Author : Jesmyn Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982104511
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Let Us Descend written by Jesmyn Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more. “Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.” —Vogue • “A novel of triumph.” —The Washington Post • “Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.” —People From “one of America’s finest living writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub)—comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that’s destined to become a classic. Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is “[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours” (NPR). Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this “[s]earing and lyrical…raw, transcendent, and ultimately hopeful” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet.

Miami Virtue

Author : Gregory L. Ulmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004534644
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Miami Virtue written by Gregory L. Ulmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida Research Ensemble is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group experimenting with choragraphy, which applies modernist arts practices and poststructural theory to the design of image as category. Image categories function for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word categories functioned for literacy.

Into Siberia

Author : Gregory J. Wallance
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250280060
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Into Siberia written by Gregory J. Wallance and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He’s a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows Into Siberia to delve into horror without succumbing to despair." — The New York Times Book Review In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance’s Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man’s harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history’s most heinous human rights abuses. In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies in exile parties froze to death in their mothers’ arms. Kennan came to call the exiles’ experience in Siberia a “perfect hell of misery.” After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day.