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Onassis, an extravagant life: An Extravagant Life
Par Frank Brady. 1977
This biography of Onassis focuses on his rise to power and riches with emphasis on the women in his life…
including Ingaborg Dedichen, Tina Livanos, Maria Callas, and Jacqueline Kennedy. 1977.On the shores of the Mediterranean
Par Eric Newby. 1984
The author and his wife set out from Tuscany to investigate the Mediterranean as it was and as it is…
now. They travel via tough Naples with its Camorra murders and eight-horse hearses to Venice, Yugoslavia and a dull bus tour of Albania. He climbs Mount Olympus in a cloud, takes a Turkish bath in Istanbul and is fined for climbing the Great Pyramid. Includes strong language. 1984.On a shoestring to Coorg: an experience of South India
Par Dervla Murphy. 1976
Returning to India in an attempt to improve her feelings about the country, the author arrived with her small daughter,…
in the tiny province of Coorg. Here they settled down happily to learn something about its customs, ceremonies and attitudes. 1976.On Celtic tides: one man's journey around Ireland by sea kayak
Par Chris Duff. 1999
Kayaker Chris Duff, on his slow boat around Ireland, spends equal time on land and sea. He brings us an…
old-fashioned travelogue of excitement on the waves, unhurried explorations of monasteries and ruins, and conversations in pubs. 1999.L'homme qui marche
Par Jean Béliveau, Géraldine Woessner. 2013
Après la faillite de son entreprise d'enseignes lumineuses, Jean Béliveau est parti sur un coup de têtele jour de ses…
quarante-cinq ans, le 18 août 2000, de Montréal. Il est rentré chez lui le 16 octobre 2011 après avoir parcouru 75 543 km à travers 64 pays. Il a réussi sans préparation à effectuer la plus longue marche ininterrompue autour du monde et celle-ci a été reconnue par l'Unesco dans le cadre de la décennie internationale dédiée à la paix pour les enfants. Durant ces onze années, le marcheur porte turban et grande barbe au Soudan, mange des insectes en Afrique, du chien en Corée et du serpent en Chine. Il dort sous les ponts, dans des foyers pour sans-abri, voire dans des prisons, mais la plupart du temps chez des gens séduits par son aventure. 2013.Notice rouge: comment je suis devenu l'ennemi no 1 de Poutine
Par Bill Browder, Renaud Bombard. 2015
B. Browder est le cofondateur d'Hermitage, le plus grand fonds d'investissement étranger de Russie. Diplômé de Stanford, il fait fortune…
à Moscou auprès des nouveaux oligarques, avant d'en être soudainement chassé par V. Poutine en 2005. Cet ouvrage retrace à la manière d'un polar les circonstances douteuses de la mort de son fiscaliste dans les prisons russes en 2009. 2015. Titre uniforme: Red notice.No angel: the secret life of Bernie Ecclestone
Par Tom Bower. 2011
Ecclestone has never before revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars in London's notorious Warren Street to become the…
major player he is today. He has finally decided to reveal his secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes on race tracks, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yachts and in the air. Includes strong language. 2011.New Europe
Par Michael Palin. 2007
Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived…
intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has continually changed the map of Europe. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers. 2007.My father's business: the small-town values that built Dollar General into a billion-dollar company
Par Cal Turner, Rob Simbeck. 2018
Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father,…
Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse. 2018.My life in leadership: the journey and lessons learned along the way (Your coach in a box)
Par Frances Hesselbein. 2010
Frances Hesselbein has built a career in leadership, serving as a top executive in numerous charitable organizations. Here she recounts…
her own story, in her own words, while detailing the many leadership lessons she learned from people like Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush and Clinton, Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and more. 2010.Murdoch's World: the last of the old media empires
Par David Folkenflik. 2013
Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. In a stretch spanning six decades,…
he built News Corp from a small paper in Adelaide, Australia into a multimedia empire. Then, over two years, a series of scandals threatened to unravel his entire creation. In “Murdoch’s World”, Folkenflik tells the story of how News Corp survived this tumultuous chapter, and of the man. c2013.Mrs P's journey: the remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map
Par Sarah Hartley. 2001
The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the…
unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z. 2001.Muddling through in Madagascar
Par Dervla Murphy. 1985
Dervla Murphy and her 14-year-old daughter, Rachel, make their most accident-prone journey amongst "the most lovable people". The travellers set…
out on foot to Antsirable through the Ankaratra Mountains, then on by bush taxi and truck to discover that in Madagascar motoring is much more gruelling than walking. 1985.Mon coeur s'appelle Amazonie (Collection "Vécu")
Par Anne-Sophie Tiberghien. 1983
Mornings in Mexico
Par D. H Lawrence. 2009
In the 1920s, Lawrence travelled several times to Mexico, where he was fascinated by the clash of beauty and brutality,…
purity and darkness that he observed there. The diverse and evocative essays that make up "Mornings in Mexico" - "Market Day", "Dance of the Sprouting Corn", "The Hopi Snake Dance" - bring to life the elemental simplicity of the Zapotec Indians in Mexico. The intense, dark rhythms of the Indians in the American South West are brightly adorned with simple and evocative details sharply observed: piles of fruit in a village market, strolls in a courtyard filled with hibiscus and roses, the play of light on an adobe wall. 2009.Morgan: American financier
Par Jean Strouse. 1999
After more than a decade's research in previously unexamined archives, award-winning biographer Jean Strouse offers a landmark profile of America's…
greatest financier - J.P. Morgan. This magisterial work, brilliantly crafted and epic in scope, gives a vivid portrait of our country's greatest banker. 1999.Mountain year
Par Michael Joseph Murphy. 1964
The account of the year in an Irish mountain district, divided into twelve essays, describes the attitudes and characters of…
some of the people who live there. All his life Michael J. Murphy has lived within sight of Slieve Gullion. To him it does not represent just a large outcrop of rock, but a way of life. In his opening essay he shows how the personality of a mountain can dominate and influence the lives and living of everyone within its shadow, even the very fields. 1964.Au pied du mur: au coeur de la Terre sainte en guerre : Paris, Jérusalem, Ramallah : petit guide à usage politico-spirituel
Par Marie-Pierre Samitier. 2010
Mai 2009, Marie-Pierre Samitier part pour un voyage en Terre sainte. Nous la suivons avec un groupe de pèlerins américains…
sur cette terre chargée d'histoire et revendiquée par deux peuples et trois religions monothéistes. À Jérusalem, Hébron ou Ramallah, nous visitons avec elle les lieux saints. Mais, surtout, nous découvrons un monde en guerre, où règne la peur, matérialisée par un gigantesque mur de béton. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2010.L'enfant des neiges: récit
Par Nicolas Vanier. 2004
Conquérant de l'impossible
Par Mike Horn, Jean-Philippe Chatrier. 2005