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Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba

Robert Wheeler · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home -- naming it the Finca Vigia -- with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment...
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Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

JAMES FALLOWS · Pantheon
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A unique, revelatory portrait of the civic and economic renewal already taking place across America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A surprisingly hopeful view of the country between its coasts.For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling...
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Rain: Four Walks in English Weather

Melissa Harrison · Faber & Faber
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback

An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.Whenever rain falls, the English countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain...
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy...
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