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Book #11 Book Awards IV Reading Challenge Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer isbn 0679770046 by Richard Holmes Holmes wrote respected biographies of Romantic era writers such as Robert Lewis Stevenson, Cole… -
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Book #10 Book Awards IV Reading Challenge The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 ISBN 014303765X by Antony Beevor The Spanish Civil War was a world war between the two better-known world wars. The Republic… -
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Book #9 Book Awards IV Reading Challenge To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger (ISBN 0688115853) by Mark Jenkins Readers with an interest in the Niger river and the peoples near it will find this an interesting travel n… -
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Book #8 Book Awards IV Reading Challenge On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul (ISBN 0312420676) by Jason Goodwin This is an account of a six-month walk across eastern Europe to Istanbul in the early 1990s. Goo… -
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Book #7 Book Awards IV Reading Challenge The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (ISBN 0670894737) by John M. Barry This book won the 2005 National Academies Communication Awards. The awar… -
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Book #6 Book Awards IV Reading Challenge Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (ISBN 0809001586) by William Cronon This is an ecological and social history of New England. His view is e… -
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Book #5 for Book Awards IV Reading Challenge Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe (ISBN 0156027178) Diane Souhami Having spent four years alone on an island after being marooned… -
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The Late George Apley (0316735671) John P. Marquand One would think that a Pulitzer Prize winner for 1938 would be merely picturesque and irritatingly affected. Especially one about Boston Brahmins, the kind of people w… -
The Poor are "Crazy," The Rich "Eccentric"
The amazing novel The Underground Man (Mick Jackson, 1998) is a fictionalized biography of a Victorian era eccentric. William, Fifth Duke of Portland, lived from 1800 to 1879 and is most famous for living in the eight t… -
Take my Camel, Dear
Anthony Burgess (Tremor of Intent) Peter deVries (Blood of the Lamb) wrote comic novels that treated religion seriously. So did Rose Macauley. The Towers of Trebizond begins as a comedy. Narrator Laurie accompanies her A…
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