Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
By: Sara Wheeler
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With the writers of the golden age as her guides--Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among othe…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Their lives were and are consumed with the generally dreadful business of being Russian."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"Their lives were and are consumed with the generally dreadful business of being Russian."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"Russian's claim the banya as their first doctor, vodka being the second and raw garlic the third."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"Russian's claim the banya as their first doctor, vodka being the second and raw garlic the third."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
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1. 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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- russia
- history
- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
"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
2. The Guermantes Way
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne
4.27
Format: 619 pages, Paperback
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more
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- literature
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش میآید، چون تخیل با توست"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک میشناسد"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
3. Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
By: C.J. Sansom
2.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But … read more
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4. Surprised by Oxford
By: Carolyn Weber
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more
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5. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
By: Graham Robb
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra inco… read more
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6. La casa in collina
By: Cesare Pavese
4.70
Format: 84 pages,
Il momento forse piu alto della maturita dello scrittore Cesare Pavese: la storia di una solitudine… read more
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7. Mia madre è un fiume
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Un esordio stupefacente, che segna la scoperta di una scrittrice dallo stile magistrale. Il raccont… read more
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8. Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
By: David Greene
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far away from the trendy cafes, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow… read more
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9. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- literature
- travel
- nonfiction
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
10. Vertigo
By: Geoffrey Sainsbury , Boileau-Narcejac
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
L'histoire se deroule en France, durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Flavieres, ancien inspecteur de… read more
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11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
12. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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- russia
- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
13. There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
By: Fiona Hill
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity ha… read more
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- russia
- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
14. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
By: Robert P. Jones
4.43
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a pro… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. Il vecchio al mare
By: Domenico Starnone
3.36
Format: 128 pages, ebook
«Nel corso della mia vita ho fatto di tutto, proprio di tutto, per smania di racconto». Sulla spiag… read more
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16. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
17. Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
By: Sara Wheeler
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With the writers of the golden age as her guides--Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among othe… read more
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- russia
- russian literature
- history
- biography
- memoir
- literature
- travel
- nonfiction
- russian history
- literary criticism
"Their lives were and are consumed with the generally dreadful business of being Russian."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"Russian's claim the banya as their first doctor, vodka being the second and raw garlic the third."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"According to a much quoted Russian saying 'the country has two eternal problems, roads and idiots'."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"Turgenev complained in a letter that Spring in Europe lacked the explosiveness of that season in Russia."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
18. The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind (Wellcome Collection)
By: Martin Sixsmith
4.18
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times More than a… read more
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- nonfiction
- russia
- history
19. A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece
By: Peter Fiennes
3.29
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in n… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
20. Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance
By: Peter Apps
4.19
Format: 727 pages, Kindle Edition
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - … read more
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- nonfiction
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