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  • Avoid the Day

    A New Nonfiction in Two Movements

    de Jay Kirk ...
    "Avoid the Day truly seems to me to push nonfiction memoir as far as it can go without it collapsing into a singularity and I am at a loss for words. You are just going to have to read it." –Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkA surreal, high-wire act of narrative nonfiction that redefines the genre, Avoid the Day is part detective story, part memoir, and part meditation on the meaning of life ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Esquive le jour

    de Jay Kirk ...
    Traducido por Stéphane Vanderhaeghe ...
    Series series
    De la Transylvanie à l'Arctique, en passant par les États-Unis, Jay Kirk nous embarque pour la fuite en avant la plus déjantée.Esquive le jour c'est un voyage qui commence en Transylvanie sur les terres de Dracula et se termine à bord d'une éco-croisière en Antarctique. C'est le parcours d'un enquêteur qui part sur les traces d'une partition disparue avant de se retrouver sur un tournage de film d ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Kingdom Under Glass

    A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals

    de Jay Kirk ...
    A sweeping historical narrative of the life of Carl Akeley, the famed explorer and taxidermist who changed the way Americans viewed the conservation of the natural worldDuring the golden age of safaris in the early twentieth century, one man set out to preserve Africa's great beasts. In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Avoid the Day

    A New Nonfiction in Two Movements

    de Jay Kirk ...
    Narrado por Andrew Eiden ...

    Completo

    11 hora 23 minutos

    ""Avoid the Day truly seems to me to push nonfiction memoir as far as it can go without it collapsing into a singularity and I am at a loss for words. You are just going to have to read it."" –Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkA surreal, high-wire act of narrative nonfiction that redefines the genre, Avoid the Day is part detective story, part memoir, and part meditation on the meaning of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Into Africa

    The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

    de Martin Dugard ...
    What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account.With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

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  • A Fortune-Teller Told Me

    Earthbound Travels in the Far East

    de Tiziano Terzani ...
    Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary years I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn.”Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, ... Leer más

    Antes $8.99 USD Ahora $6.99 USD

  • Wine to Water

    How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World

    de Doc Hendley ...
    The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who's changing the world through clean water.Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events to raise funds for clean-water projects and to bring awareness to the world's freshwater crisis. He planned to donate the proceeds through traditional channels, but instead found ... Leer más

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  • Pelletier

    The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York

    de Stephanie Anderson ...
    This book tells the story of a French cabin boy, Narcisse Pelletier, and his life with the Uutaalnganu people of north-east Cape York from 1858 to 1875. Even though it is all but forgotten in Australia, and in France is known only in its broad outlines, Pelletier's story rivals that of the famous William Buckley, both as a tale of human survival and as an enthralling and accessible ethnographic ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa

    10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa

    de Steve Kemper ...
    A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements.In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half-year, 10,000-mile adventure ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Nigeria

    A New History of a Turbulent Century

    de Richard Bourne ...
    'If you want to understand Nigeria's history in one succinct go, this is a very good choice.'Noo Saro-WiwaKnown as the African Giant, Nigeria's story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages of colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently the Boko Haram insurgency, has the country managed to stay together for a hundred years? Why, despite an ... Leer más

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  • Lifeblood

    How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time

    de Alex Perry ...
    In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. "They're not sleeping," Sachs told him. "They're in malarial comas. A few days later, they were all dead." Chambers had long avoided the public eye, but this moment ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Livingstone

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    de Tim Jeal ...
    "A superb biography, not to be missed either by armchair explorers or students of human nature…reveals the famed missionary and explorer as he really was."— Cleveland Plain DealerDavid Livingstone is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus