7 best-selling nonfiction books like The Missionaries: God Against The Indians by Norman Lewis

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The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

By: Norman Lewis

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This work is an attack on the destruction of the culture and environment of indigenous tribes in La…

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1. Arabian Sands

By: Wilfred Thesiger

4.19

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty … read more

Similar categories in Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands book and Norman Lewis's The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
"I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of…"

-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

"Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching disintegration of his society and the destruction of ‘his belief…"

-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

"I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent t…"

-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

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2. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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3. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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4. Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This"

By: P.J. O'Rourke

4.00

Format: None pages,

P.J. O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe in Holidays in Hell, looking for trouble, the t… read more

Similar categories in P.J. O'Rourke's Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This" book and Norman Lewis's The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

Similar categories in Augustine of Hippo's Confessions book and Norman Lewis's The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

By: Dervla Murphy

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphy's account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europ… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction

7. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

By: Slavomir Rawicz

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia th… read more

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8. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

3.36

Format: 96 pages,

From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, co… read more

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9. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

By: Paul Theroux

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Dark Star Safarithe wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the l… read more

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10. At Play in the Fields of the Lord

By: Peter Matthiessen

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. … read more

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11. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

Similar categories in Lea Ypi's Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History book and Norman Lewis's The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

  • nonfiction
  • history
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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12. Burma Sahib

By: Paul Theroux

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of  The Mosquito Coast  and  The Bad Angel Brothers  comes a riveting new… read more

Similar categories in Paul Theroux's Burma Sahib book and Norman Lewis's The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

  • travel
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13. Box Hill

By: Adam Mars-Jones

3.56

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Box Hill is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in… read more

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  • british literature
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14. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

By: Dipo Faloyin

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

By: Norman Lewis

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This work is an attack on the destruction of the culture and environment of indigenous tribes in La… read more

Similar categories in Norman Lewis's The Missionaries: God Against The Indians book and Norman Lewis's The Missionaries: God Against The Indians

  • history
  • british literature
  • travel
  • brazil
  • native american
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • english literature
  • anthropology

6 best-selling travel books like The Missionaries: God Against The Indians by Norman Lewis

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Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

4.19

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Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This"

P.J. O'Rourke

4.00

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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Dervla Murphy

4.40

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Paul Theroux

3.98

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4.28

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Solvej Balle

3.71

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Iida Turpeinen

4.38

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Sara Al Husaini

4.03

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