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Journeying: travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus
Par Nikos Kazantzakis, Themi Vasils, Theodora Vasils. 1975
Posthumous account of the novelist's visits to foreign lands in 1926, including interviews with Mussolini and the Greek poet Cavafy.…
Passion, struggle, and spirit are the themes in this travelogue. 1975. Uniform title: Taxideuontas.Journey home (Travel Literature Ser.)
Par John Hillaby. 1983
The author and his wife set out from Ravenglass, a place "that gives the impression it fell asleep on a…
bed of shingle centuries ago" and end their journey on Hampstead Heath. Tapping an inexhaustible seam of natural history, archaeology and folklore, John Hillaby blends his allusions to the past with topical commonplace things to create a unique mixture. 1983.Gentle Johnny Ramensky: the extraordinary true story of the safe blower who became a war hero
Par Robert Jeffrey. 2010
“Gentle Johnny Ramensky” is the astonishing tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one…
of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. But he served his country with exceptional bravery and skill in the Second World War. Back in civvy street he could not resist a return to the excitement of roaming darkened rooftops and breaking open the toughest of safes. 2010.Jack the Ripper: murder, mystery and intrigue in London's East End (Amazing stories)
Par Susan McNicoll. 2005
In the 1880s, the East End of London became the staging place for a series of bloodcurdling murders that caused…
outrage and widespread panic throughout the nation. Although many criminologists have speculated as to the identity of the killer, to this day the murderer is known only as Jack the Ripper. Some descriptions of violence. 2005.Recounts the perilous and remarkable 1983 journey of the author, who is a naturalist, the poet James Fenton, and three…
native guides to the center of Borneo, an area unvisited by outsiders since 1926. 1984.In trouble again: a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
Par Redmond O'Hanlon. 1989
O'Hanlon takes readers on a four-month journey up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon basin in search of the…
Yanomami Indians. His book contains humour, adventure, and a wealth of information. 1989.In Xanadu: a quest
Par William Dalrymple. 1989
This is an account of a quest, a journey which began in the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and took William…
Dalrymple and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge's Xanadu itself. 1989.In the kingdom of the thunder dragon
Par Joanna Lumley. 1997
In 1931 Joanna Lumley's grandparents undertook a three and a half month journey across the small and secret Himalayan kingdom…
of Bhutan, to honour the King with an award. Joanna retraces their steps to meet the King's descendants and discover for herself the charm of this forgotten land. Trekking on foot and pony across remote mountain passes and valleys, she visits the rural villages and the towering monasteries. She finds that little has changed since her forebears passed through, and is overwhelmed by the magic and beauty of Bhutan. 1997.I will find you: solving killer cases from my life fighting crime
Par Joe Kenda. 2017
Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhorrent murders? Do you crave to know the gory details of these crimes, and…
do you seek comfort in the solving of the most gruesome? In this book, the star of Homicide Hunter, Lt. Joe Kenda, shares his deepest, darkest, and never-before-revealed case files from his two decades as a homicide detective, and reminds us that crimes like these are very real and can happen even in our own backyards. 2017.If it weren't for sex-- I'd have to get a job: confessions of a private dick
Par James Burke, Arnold Manweiler. 1984
I drank the water everywhere
Par Charles N Barnard. 1975
Description of the voyages and travels undertaken by a world traveller, a former "Saturday Evening Post" editor. Among the places…
visited are Kwajalein, China's South Coast, the Champagne District of France, and the Greek Islands. c1975.I shot daddy: She Killed Her Father To Protect Her Sister
Par Stacey Lannert. 2011
It was a time of unregulated madness, and nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the…
roaring 1920s. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and non-existent oil wells in Panama. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished and the Chicago State's Attorney began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under an assumed identity. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2015.An evening among headhunters: & other reports from roads less traveled
Par Lawrence Millman. 1998
In this collection of essays, an inveterate traveller visits some of the more remote precincts on the planet. Includes stories…
about relaxing in slow-paced Tonga, encountering ghosts in Samoa, dining on boiled walrus north of Hudson's Bay and social faux pas in Ecuador. Some strong language. 1998.Dead reckoning: how I came to meet the man who murdered my father
Par Carys Cragg. 2017
A powerful and emotional memoir about a woman whose father was brutally murdered at home by an intruder. Twenty years…
later, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and learns startling new information about the crime. "Dead Reckoning" follows the author’s determination to confront the man who destroyed her world in order to find peace. 2017.All-American murder: the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
Par James Patterson, Alex Abramovich, Mike Harvkey. 2018
Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until…
he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives readers a front row seat to Hernandez's tumultuous downward spiral, this biography reveals the truth behind the troubled star, with first-person accounts and untold stories. Bestseller. 2018.Goodbye, sweet girl: a story of domestic violence and survival
Par Kelly Sundberg. 2018
In this memoir, Kelly Sundberg chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse--examining…
the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of pain, and how she eventually broke free. 2018.In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home. The police found a convenient suspect in Oscar…
Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp, who, despite his obvious innocence, was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor in a brutal Scottish prison. Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Using the methods of his most famous character, he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies, and outright fabrications by police and prosecutors. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in the history of forensics, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method. 2018.Can you ever forgive me?: memoirs of a literary forger
Par Lee Israel. 2018
Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich…
Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward, and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers. 2018.Death sentence: the true story of Velma Barfield's life, crimes and execution
Par Jerry Bledsoe, Velma Barfield. 2016
A shocking true story of a double life exposed by a horrible crime. Velma Barfield was overcome with grief when…
a sudden illness took the life of her fiance, North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor. Taylor's family grieved with her until traces of arsenic poisoning were revealed in the autopsy. Velma's own son turned her over to authorities. More revelations stunned her family and community--this wasn't the first time Velma, a born-again Christian and devout Sunday school teacher, had murdered in cold blood. Tried by the "world's deadliest prosecutor," Velma was sentenced to death. She gained worldwide attention as she turned her life around after the sentencing. 2016.