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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
DAVID ROBERTS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing."By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west... |
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The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
Brandon Presser - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the worldIn 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing... |
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What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
Michael Kazin - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for "moral capitalism," from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden.One of Kirkus Reviews'... |
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Jody Rosen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world"The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride - across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting."... |
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Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
Louisa Lim - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable... |
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The Trench
Richard Van Emden - BANTAM PRESS; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This companion book to a BBC series is based on extensive interviews with veterans and vividly reconstructs the reality of war: what it felt like to see the front line, how the trenches themselves were constructed, how soldiers passed their leisure hours, where they slept, and what they... |
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Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
Craig McNamara - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022"Offering a complex, introspective look at how his relationship with his father turned into "a mixture of love and rage," the author sheds light on an entire generation's disillusionment with their forebears and reaches... |
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