9 best-selling history books like Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by

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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

By: None

3.87

Format: 260 pages, ebook

The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world Blac…

If you liked the history plot in Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by None , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.22

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a … read more

Similar categories in Stephen E. Ambrose's Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
"Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Co…"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

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2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

By: None

3.87

Format: 260 pages, ebook

The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world Blac… read more

Similar categories in None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • native american history
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
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4. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

By: John G. Neihardt , Black Elk

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The most important aspect of this book is upon the contemporary generation of young Indians who hav… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

By: Steven Rinella

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Blood Music

By: Greg Bear

3.84

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more

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"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

7. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

By: Andrés Reséndez

3.68

Format: None pages,

read more

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8. The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

By: Bob Drury , Tom Clavin

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER An astonishing untold story of the American West The great Sioux warrior-s… read more

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9. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival

By: Peter Stark

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast … read more

Similar categories in Peter Stark's Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

10. Collected Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the … read more

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11. Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

By: Robert Bunker , Raymond W. Thorp

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

The movie Jeremiah Johnsonintroduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real… read more

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12. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

By: Dean King

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Rea… read more

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13. The Dream Master

By: Roger Zelazny

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a war… read more

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14. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

Similar categories in S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • native american history
  • nonfiction
  • native americans
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

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15. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

Similar categories in Adam Hochschild's American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

Similar categories in Werner Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. A Line in the Sand

By: Kevin Powers

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more

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19. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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20. Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

By: Steven Rinella

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The indispensable case for parenting tough, curious, and competent kids who feel at home in the out… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rinella's Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • nonfiction
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21. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

By: Brian C. Muraresku

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more

Similar categories in Brian C. Muraresku's The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name book and None's Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

  • nonfiction
  • history
"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

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4.27

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4.46

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