Product Catalog

Biography & Memoir M-Z

Individual titles:

• The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus - Lets readers join Roget on his worldly adventures and emotional journeys as he explored the power of words.
• The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan - The astonishing true story of Josiah Harlan, the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, the man who would be the first and last American king.
• Mandela: The Authorized Biography - by Anthony Sampson
• Manhattan '45 - Jan Morris evokes the city and the era in all its romantic grandeur.
• Mao Zedong - The essential background about the Chinese leader, including his relations with family, friends, and confidential assistants, as well as his youthful writings, poems, letters, and drafts of speeches.
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu - Marco Polos incredible odyssey--along the Silk Road, and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life
• The Master - A fictionalized study based on many biographical materials and family accounts of Henry James's life
• Me Talk Pretty 1 Day - by David Sedaris
• Mississippi Solo: A Memoir - by Eddy L. Harris
• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali - The true story of the life and death of a remarkable West African midwife
• A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir - by Toyin Falola
• Mr China: a Memoir - A coming-of-age tale for both the author and his fellow westerners who foolishly dreamed of conquering the vast Chinese market.
• Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa - by Peter Godwin
• My First Summer in the Sierra
• My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir - by Susan Allen Toth
• The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64 - A vivid portrayal of a privileged young Yankee who became a battle-hardened soldier and revered officer
• New Orleans Stories - edited by John Miller
• North Country: A Personal Journey Thorough the Borderland - by Howard F. Mosher
• Northern Nurse
• Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood - by Nega Mezlekia
• Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route Into Spain - A delightfully irreverent tour of the 500-mile pilgrimage route from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• On Paris - by Ernest Hemingway
• Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian LIfe
• One Man's Meat - A New England classic back in print.
• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History - Born in 1735, Elizabeth Marsh traveled farther and more adventurously than any other woman, and most men, of her time.
• Out of Africa And Shadow On the Grass - by Isak Dinesen
• Paris in the Fifties - This New York Times bestseller chronicles a beautiful and bygone era in the history of the world's most alluring city, from the vantage point of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a part of it.
• Paris to the Moon - The New Yorker magazine writer's essays about life in the City of Light.
• Passage Through India: An Expanded and Illustrated Edition - Gary Snyder's trip that eventually took on legendary status as an iconic Beat Voyage
• The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism - by Megan Marshall
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - A memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return - The nationally best-selling graphic memoir of adolescence, homecoming, and exile, sequel to Persepolis
• Persian Girls: A Memoir - A story of promises kept and promises broken, of dreams and secrets, and most importantly, of sisters.
• The Pianist - This post-World War II memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived in Warsaw between 1939 and 1945, offers a testimony to the power of music and humanity.
• The Piano Shop On the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier - by Thad Carhart
• Picasso
• A Pirate of Exquisite Mind - The first major biography of the explorer--and pirate-- William Dampier, one of the pioneers on whose insights our understanding of the natural world was built.
• A Place Called Home
• Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner - Chronicles Andersen's persistent longing for the landscape she left behind
• Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders - A rare window on a world racked with turmoil yet full of hope.
• Quench the Lamp - by Alice Taylor
• A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton - A compelling joint biography of a brilliant pair of adventurers
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - The astonishing true story of young women who met in secret each week to read and talk about forbidden Western classics in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Recollections of a Provincial Past - The best known of several autobiographies by 19th century Argentinean Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
• Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now - by Jan Wong
• Return to Paris: A Memoir - The internationally celebrated food writer stimulates all the senses as she skillfully mixes vibrant memories of her early life in post-World War II Paris, with descriptions of meals that changed her life.
• Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood - Growing up a a Jewish boy in the exotic and violent world of Guatamala in the forties
• River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra - A marvelous account of an epic journey and a touching portrait of the friendship between a traveler and his dog.
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey - Traces the bold 1914 expedition to chart the Amazon's treacherous River of Doubt, and casts new light on the expedition's extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt.
• River of Forgotten Days: A Journey Down the Mississippi in Search of La Salle - by Daniel Spurr
• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze - A powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval.
• Road from Coorain - One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman.
• Rowing to Alaska And Other True Stories - The story of McLennan's utterly extraordinary life through a series of adventures.
• Sahara - by Michael Palin
• San Juan: A Memoir of a City - by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia
• Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy - An absolutely convincing portrait of a complicated hero.
• A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler - In an era when the blind were routinely warehoused in asylums, James Holman was circumnavigating the world alone
• Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York - The surprising history of stone walls in New England and New York
• Serpent in Paradise - by Dea Birkett
• Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter - The behind-the-scenes memoir from the first female captain at one of New York Citys most prestigious restaurants.
• Seven Years in Tibet - The extraordinary true story of how a young Austrian adventurer became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans.
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - Rereates the history of Rwanda's barbarous and chaotic civil war and genocide
• Short Walk in Hindu Kush 2nd Ed - by Eric Newby
• Shutterbabe : Adventures in Love and War
• Simon Bolivar: A Life - Illuminates the inner world of Bolivar, the dynamics of his leadership, his power to command, and his modes of ruling diverse peoples
• Sindh Revisited - A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
• Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents - by Paul Theroux
• Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet - The story of a thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet
• Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution - by Moying Li
• Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing - by Da Chen
• The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans - by Courtney Angela Brkic
• A Strong West Wind: A Memoir - An exquisite memoir, from a 1950s childhood in the Texas Panhandle through the 1960s and beyond.
• Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign - by Pico Iyer
• Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer - Re-creates the experience of her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit.
• Tales of a Portuguese Nun - by Myriam Cyr
• Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women - by Jean Said Makdisi
• Thieves of Baghdad - A mixture of police procedural, treasure hunt, and wartime thriller
• A Thousand Days in Venice - When Marlena de Blasi traveled to Italy, she expected to fall in love with the country, not to be swept away by a Venetian man.
• Three Cups of Tea - One man's humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard
• Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York - At once a celebration of a newly fragile city and a poignant study of a family trying to find its way, and joy, within it.
• Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land - Part memoir, part travel book, part history, Tibet, Tibet ventures beyond our world-weary fantasies to discover the truth behind a culture's struggle for survival.
• To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays - A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.
• To School Through the Fields: A Country Childhood Remembered - by Alice Taylor
• Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton - The story of Denys Finch Hatton, whose life was celebrated by Isak Dinesen in "Out of Africa."
• Toujours Provence - by Peter Mayle
• Town Like Paris - by Bryce Corbett
• Travels in West Africa
• True North: A Memoir - The challenges that confronted Conway, as she sought to establish her public self.
• The Turkish Lover - by Esmerelda Santiago
• The Twelve Little Cakes - The colorful story of a precocious child born to recognized dissidents associated with the failed Prague Spring uprising.
• The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey - An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
• Unbowed: A Memoir - Wangari Maathai recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
• Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story - This memoir traces the Wheelers' personal story and the evolution of their travel guide series
• The Village of Waiting - by George Packer
• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy - by Carlos Eire
• Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country - A leading conservative thinker offers the first in-depth look at the religious life of America's greatest founding father
• West of Kabul East of New York - by Tamin Ansary
• When a Crocodile Eats the Sun - by Peter Godwin
• Where the Indus Is Young: Midwinter in Baltistan - by Dervla Murphy
• With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer - by Susannah Clapp
• The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography - A biography of the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
• The World, The World - by Norman Lewis
• Writer and the World - by V. S. Naipaul
• Yage Letters - Harris has untangled the history of William S. Burroughs's expedition into the jungles of South America to find "yage," the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon.
• A Year in Provence - A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir - A chronicle of Soyinka's turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.
• Yunnan: China's Most Beautiful Province - Describes the landscape, history, customs and lifestyles of the 26 different nationalities that call Yunnan home
• The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands - The Zanzibar Chest is an enthralling narrative of men and women meddling with, embracing, and ultimately being transformed by other cultures - one of the most important examinations of colonialism ever written.