Product Catalog

Biography & Memoir A-L

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• The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mount McKinley - by Barbara Washburn
• Across Asia On a Bicycle
• Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt - The wide-ranging adventures of outdoorsman, naturalist, and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
• Afloat
• The Africa House - This portrait of a fascinating and complex colonialist is a masterpiece of biography and storytelling.
• Afrobeat!: Fela and the Imagined Continent - by Sola Olorunyomi
• Alexis De Tocqueville: A Life - Written by an eminent scholar of both European and American history
• All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India - When she was seven, the author and her parents leave California for an ashram in a cobra-ridden, drought stricken spot in India.
• All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas
• All Will Be Well: A Memoir - A memoir of McGahern's childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.
• Among Stone Giants : The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expeditio - by Jo Ann Van Tilburg
• Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989 - by Bruce Chatwin
• Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel - Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth -- the Sahel.
• Another Day of Life - by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West - Depicts the present-day Balkans in all its cultural glory.
• Another Long Day On the Piste - by Will Randall
• Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North - Freuchen's warmth, wit, and literary relent make this book stand out; it is a rich human saga.
• Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman - Irish Times columnist's memoirs of growing up in Dublin.
• Artist Explorer: A Ride Through Persia to India in 1892 - Recounts the amazing adventures of a painter who sought to study the world
• Back On the Road: A Journey Through Latin America - These journals chronicle Guevara's trip through Latin America as his youthful idealism was developing into the political fervor that made him a revolutionary icon.
• Becoming an Outdoors Woman: My Outdoor Adventure - by Christine Thomas
• Before Mao - A deeply moving, beautifully told saga of Li Lisan, Mao's predecessor at the head of the Communist Party
• Beyond the Chestnut Tree - by Marie Bauer
• Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa - by Allister Sparks
• The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home - This intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod traces one family's fascinating story and celebrates the perennial joys of summer at the beach.
• Bill Bryson's African Diary - by Bill Bryson
• Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam - Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war year.
• The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood - A revealing memoir that describes life in Iran before the revolution.
• Blood & Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah - Tells the dramatic inside story of Caspian oil and the rich, tumultuous history of 20th-century Iran.
• Blue Clay People : Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge - by William Powers
• Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors - Erdrich brilliantly weaves personal insights on Ojibwe culture & keen observations about her family into a lyrical and entertaining memoir.
• The Bookseller of Kabul - by Asne Seierstad
• Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa) - Portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision
• Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero -- Autographed - The story of one of the giants of American history
• Breaking Clean - by Judy Blunt
• Breaking Trail : A Climbing Life - by Arlene Blum
• Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx - Breathing Space is the story of a young woman, Heidi Neumark, and the Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church-aptly named Transfiguration-that took a chance calling on a pastor from a starkly different background.
• A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorne's Year Under Sail - by Catherine Petroski
• Brooklyn Was Mine - A tribute to New York City's most literary borough
• Burning the Days: Recollection - by James Salter
• Camping Out in the Yellowstone, 1882 - by Mary B. Richards
• The Cat from Hue : A Vietnam War Story - In this unflinching memoir, laced with humor, anger, and love, Laurence recalls coming of age during the war years as a journalist and as a man.
• Catfish and Mandala - A solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam made by a young Vietnamese-American
• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life - Illuminating as never before this mythic figure who embodied the greatest moment of revolutionary communism as a force in history.
• Chief of Station, Congo: A Memoir of 1960-67 - A classic political memoir from a master spy who lived in wildly dramatic times.
• Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds - Sabine Kuegler was five years old when her linguist-missionary parents took her to live in West Papua, Indonesia.
• Choosing Wilderness My Life Among the Ospreys - by Claude Arbour
• Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa - by Justin Hill
• Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - A highly regarded writer on Indian food offers an enchanting memoir of her early life in Delhi, occurring during a time and within a society that has since disappeared.
• The Cloud Garden - A botanist and a young explorer tell their amazing story of being ambushed by terrorists and held hostage for nine months in Central America.
• Colors of the Mountain - Written in simple, evocative prose, this is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood spent in China, and a welcome introduction to an amazing writer.
• Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story - An intimate and riveting chronicle is delivered by an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post 9/11 Afghanistan.
• The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships - A collection of twenty-seven accounts of varied friendships
• Cook: The Extraordinary Sea Voyages of Captain James Cook - Thomas breathes life into the complex and controversial legacy of an often-misunderstood man.
• Cork Boat: A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built - John Pollack quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.
• A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood - by Alex Karmel
• A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life - A vivid portrait of a vanishing breed--an old-style veterinarian.
• The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War - Both a revelatory insider's account of the Revolution and a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinary circumstances.
• The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings - Brilliant, fearless words on democracy and human rights-. Includes Wei Jingsheng's letters to Deng Xiaoping, letters from prison, and other writings.
• Cross Country - Sullivan recounts his family's annual summer migration from Oregon to New York, and of moving his family back and forth from coast to coast.
• Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana - An intimate look into the powerful personalities and families that have come to define the divide between Miami and Havana.
• Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana - An eloquent memoir by an American woman who lived with her family in Havana for four years.
• Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines - by Julia Blackburn
• Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution - A revelatory account of the making of an impassioned political heart and mind.
• A Day in Tuscany: More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide - A charming, heartfelt, and often humorous insiders view of the Tuscan people, culture, and landscape.
• Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad - by Waris Dirie
• Diary of Lady Murasaki - Lady Murasaki's Diary offers an intimate and equally compelling picture of her life as tutor and companion to the Empress Shoshi.
• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood - by Alexandra Fuller
• Douglass and Lincoln - A picture of two men who, in their differences, eventually challenged each other to greatness and altered the course of the nation.
• Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China - A vivid and reliable biography of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne.
• Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood - The provacative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex in the recent Muslim world.
• Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalusia - by Chris Stewart
• Dubliners - A portrait of a nation
• The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps - by Owen Sheers
• The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China - This remarkable memoir captures both the dreams and the grim realities her Chinese students faced within the confines of an oppressive political regime.
• Eat, Pray, Love - A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
• The Edge of Maine - Wolff brings readers into the heart of this region, explaining the characteristics that make it so unique.
• Edith Wharton - Brilliantly interweaves Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing
• Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman - by Alice Steinbach
• Emma's War: Love, Betrayal, and Death in Sudan - Biography of a humanitarian aid worker in Sudan who eventually married a warlord.
• Empress Orchid - A vivid portrait of the life of one of the most important women in history, Empress Tzu Hsi.
• Equal Play: Stories of Women Who Dare - Meet eleven daring outdoorswomen who blazed their own trails in activities formerly dominated by men
• The Exiled Collector: William Banks and the Making of an English Country House - The first ever biography of William Bankes, recounting his dramatic life story.
• Fellowship of Ghosts: Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun - Captures the connection between the Norwegian landscape and the myths, peoples, and dreams that it inspires.
• A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish - The story of how Barich fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck.
• The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood - by Elspeth Huxley
• Flight of the Gin Fizz : Midlife at 4500 Feet
• Following Hadrian: A Second Century Journey Through the Roman Empire - Speller captures the fascinating life of Hadrian, ruler of the most powerful empire on earth at the peak of its glory.
• Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel
• Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China - Before Dewoskin knew it, she was not just exploring but making Chinese culture
• Four Corners: A Journey Into the Heart of Papua New Guinea - An account of Salak's experience, at age 24, as the first American woman to traverse Papua New Guinea.
• From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years with National Geographic - by Thomas Y. Canby
• From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (paperback) - Brings readers into a world forgotten by the West, but one that readers will not soon forget.
• From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (hardcover) - Brings readers into a world forgotten by the West, but one that readers will not soon forget.
• Gaudi: A Biography - Brings both man and architect powerfully to life against the changing backdrop of Barcelona and Catalonia
• Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life - An exhilarating, intimate portrait of one of the defining women of our times.
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan
• The Girondins of Chile: Reminiscences of an Eyewitness - Tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile.
• Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert - by Jeffrey Tayler
• The Gods Drink Whiskey - Introduces readers to the basics of Buddhism in a way that could not be more entertaining, nor more thought-provoking.
• Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild - by Chip Brown
• The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices - In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history of Chinese women.
• Green Hills of Africa - An account of Hemingway's two-month safari on the Serengeti Plain in 1933.
• A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life - A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
• The Guynd: A Scottish Journal - An American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today.
• The Hadj: An American Pilgrimage to Mecca - An American-born writer and recent Muslim convert recounts his experiences on the Hadj, and in the process brings readers closer to the meaning of Islam.
• Heart of Darkness and Selections from the Congo Diary - by Joseph Conrad
• The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo - Huntley describes her teaching experiences during the war in Kosovo and the intimacy of the bond that she formed with the students.
• High Latitudes - by Farley Mowat
• The Hills of Tuscany: A New Life in an Old Land - Chronicles the charming, funny, and life-enriching experiences of Mate and his wife after they quit their jobs and bought an ancient farmhouse in Italy.
• Hirohito Making of Modern Japan - by Herbert Bix
• A History of South Africa - by Leonard L. Thompson
• Homage to Catalonia
• Homesteading: A Montana Family Album - by Percy Wollaston
• The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir - Re-creating Manea's harrowing childhood in Fascist Romania, while providing indelible portraits of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the pre- and post-Communist eras.
• Hot Sun Cool Shadow - by Angela Murrills
• How Grand a Flame: A Chronicle of a Plantation Family, 1813-1947 - An intimate look at a memorable time and place--a chronicle of the old South and the new.
• A Human Being Died That Night - by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
• I Dreamed of Africa - by Kuki Gallman
• In the Sierra Madre - by Jeff Biggers
• The Indian Clerk - Based on the true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown mathematical genius
• Inland Sea 5th Ed - by Donald Richie
• Into a Paris Quartier - by Diane Johnson
• Into the Wild - Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows
• Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope - The moving, inspiring memoir of Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed
• Island Garden - by Celia Thaxter
• Istanbul: Memories and the City - A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters
• The Japan Journals 1947-2004 - A record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility.
• John Fowler: Prince of Decorators - A guide to the work of the man who founded the firm that inventined shabby-chic and the English Country House style
• John James Audubon: The Making of an American - The first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.
• John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life - Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president
• The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography - Guides readers through annotated selections of Smith's most important and compelling writings.
• Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran - This lyrical coming-of-age story creates an intimate portrait of life in Tehran
• The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon - edited by Kathy Eldon
• Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - Details the lushness of a seemingly desolate region and reveals the magnificence behind the burqa
• Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles - by Simon Winchester
• La Mortola: In the Footsteps of Thomas Hanbury - How Hanbury came to establish the world famous garden La Mortola on the Italian Riviera in 1867.
• The Land of My Fathers: A Son's Return to the Basque Country - Laxalt offers an intriguing glimpse into the culture and history of his Basque ancestors
• Latin American Writers at Work - A thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time.
• Lazy B : Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in thet American Southwest
• Lear's Italy: In the Footsteps of Edward Lear - A compelling portrait of a remarkable human being and his adopted country.
• Letters of a Woman Homesteader - by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - A vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the US in the middle of the last century
• Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife.
• Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard Blackburn, Hero - by Joseph Garland
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Beah tells of his experience as a child fighting a war in Sierra Leone.
• Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - by Ishmael Beah
• The Lost Cities of the Mayas: The Life, Art, and Discoveries of Frederick Catherwood - Set in the unexplored jungle of Central America in the mid-1800s, this true-life adventure story will enthrall the armchair archaeologist.
• Louis Armstrong's New Orleans - The rags-to-riches tale of Armstrong's early life and the social and musical forces in New Orleans that shaped him
• Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir - by Neely Tucker