In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
By: Jeff Biggers
3.90
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Selected as "Best Travel Books of the Year 2023 (So Far)" by Wanderlust Magazine, Top Summer Read b…
Want to Read $ 15.99"One map, titled “Mediterranean without Borders,"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
"In fact, it might be more accurate to speak of “le Sardegne,"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
"While Sardinian authors, like Giuseppe Cossu in 1799, had been lamenting the oversight of the island’s history and “unfaithful geo- graphic maps"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
"An Italian romance may begin in a gondola amid the marvel of Venice, but a traveler looking for the great stories of Italy will board a sailboat amid the gale force of mistral winds, confront the rough seas and warnings of “the insane mountains"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
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1. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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2. Travels in Siberia
By: Ian Frazier
3.91
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, t… read more
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"Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can."-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
"In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar."-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
"Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today."-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
"Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That…"-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
3. Dimentica il mio nome
By: Zerocalcare
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Quando l'ultimo pezzo della sua infanzia se ne va, Zerocalcare scopre cose sulla propria famiglia c… read more
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- italy
"Forse crescere significa anche questo. Accettare che quel monte che protegge la vallata ha anche un altro versante, nascosto. Che il terreno non è tutto uguale, ci sono zone più fertili, altre più ar…"-Zerocalcare, Dimentica il mio nome
4. Il giorno del giudizio
By: Salvatore Satta
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
[Trovi edizioni con copertine alternative per questo ISBN ] Epico e visionario, il romanzo della S… read more
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5. Italian Neighbors
By: Tim Parks
3.54
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one… read more
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6. Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
By: James McFarlane , Thorkild Hansen , Kathleen McFarlane
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Arabia Felixis the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gon… read more
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7. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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8. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
9. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.90
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more
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"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
10. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
11. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
12. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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13. The House on Via Gemito
By: Domenico Starnone
3.65
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more
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14. The Sicilian Inheritance
By: Jo Piazza
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more
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15. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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16. In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
By: Jeff Biggers
3.90
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Selected as "Best Travel Books of the Year 2023 (So Far)" by Wanderlust Magazine, Top Summer Read b… read more
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"One map, titled “Mediterranean without Borders,"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
"In fact, it might be more accurate to speak of “le Sardegne,"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
"While Sardinian authors, like Giuseppe Cossu in 1799, had been lamenting the oversight of the island’s history and “unfaithful geo- graphic maps"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
"An Italian romance may begin in a gondola amid the marvel of Venice, but a traveler looking for the great stories of Italy will board a sailboat amid the gale force of mistral winds, confront the rou…"-Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
17. Life: My Story Through History
By: Pope Francis
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous worl… read more
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18. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
By: Elizabeth Rush
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more
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"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
19. A Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the firs… read more
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20. The Strong Curves Cookbook: 100+ High-Protein, Low-Carb Recipes to Help You Lose Weight, Build Muscle, and Get Strong
By: Shelley Darlington
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Build strength, trim fat, and feel great with over 100 delicious low-carb, high-protein recipes fro… read more
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21. Leadership Is Overrated: How the Navy SEALs (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win
By: Kyle Buckett
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning pair of executive consultants reveal why to be successful, businesses need self-le… read more
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