Book type: non-fiction (1975)


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An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. An Inland Voyage, first published in 1878, is Stevenson's earliest book. It describes a voyage undertaken with this Scottish friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, mostly along the Oise River from Belgium through France, in the autumn of 1876. Stevenson and Simpson each had a wooden canoe rigged with a sail, propelled with double-bladed paddles, a style that had recently become popular. An Inland Voyage paints a delightful picture of Europe in a more innocent time, with quirky innkeepers, travelling enter... continue

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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum EN

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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A collection of the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-43) who lived in Amsterdam that were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, but their interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them and in the internal journey they chart.

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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Elliott, Jason EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
"Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of the capital, Kabul.

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An Unfinished Love Story : A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
"Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. Dick was one of the young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, and he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Doris was a White House Fellow and worked directly for Lyndon Johnson, later assisting on his memoir. The Goodwins' last great adventure involved opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia Dick had saved for more than fifty years. The voyage of remembrance revived the hope that the youth of today will carry forward th... continue

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Anarcho-Blackness : Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey EN

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What Black liberation and anarchism have in common, and what they can offer each other.
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And Still I Rise by Doreen Lawrence, Margaret Busby EN

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Since the murder of her son Stephen in 1993, Doreen Lawrence has campaigned for justice for Stephen and for other victims of racially-motivated crimes. In this book, she describes the unimaginable events of 1993 and the years that followed as they happened to her.

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And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation by Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna (Author) EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world. Slowly, they made their way to the safety of Sierra Leone. They were the lucky ones. After years of exile, with the fighting seemingly over, Agnes returned to Liberia--a country now devastated by years of civil war. Families have been torn apart, villages destroyed, and it seems as th... continue

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Andorra Revealed by Clare Allcard, Judith Wood, Iain Woolward, Ursula Simpson Ure, Alexandra Grebennikova EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
Andorra Revealed: Entertaining stories about one of the world's more enigmatic countries. Journey with us through fact and fiction, memoire and imagination, behind the scenes and into the heart of this unique, pocket-sized country. The book is crammed with facts, past and present and interwoven with bedtime stories that reveal even more of this rare Co-Princedom: tales of smugglers and pigs, murder and even witches on broomsticks. Serving as an entertaining companion for would-be visitors and a practical guide for those considering Andorra as a place to live, it shares with you the allure that... continue

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Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood by Frank McCourt EN

Rating: 4 (15 votes)
Description:
Stunning re-issue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller. Angela's Ashes is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, from Brooklyn tenements to Limerick slums, of courage and survival against seemingly overwhelming odds. It is imbued on every page with McCourt's distinctive humour and compassion.

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Anger Is My Middle Name : A Memoir by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to live whe... continue