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Safari en Afrique
Par Jean-Jacques Ouellet. 1988
The Europe I saw
Par Elizabeth Wiskemann. 1968
Two middle-aged ladies in Andalusia (The century travellers)
Par Penelope Chetwode. 1985
The author makes her tour of the most inaccessible region of Spain riding on the back of the second middle-aged…
lady in the title: her mare, La Marquesa. Together they encounter the people, the architecture and the sanitation. 1985.The middle passage: impressions of five societies, British, French and Dutch, the West Indies and South America
Par V. S. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. 1962
Naipul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, Trinidad.…
He offers a record of his impressions there and elsewhere in the West Indies and South America, and examines their common heritage of colonialism and slavery. 1962.The innocents abroad
Par Mark Twain. 1872
Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, "The…
innocents abroad" (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. 1872.The literary west: an anthology of western American literature
Par Thomas J Lyon. 1999
More than forty selections, most written by twentieth-century authors such as Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Jack Schaefer, N. Scott Momaday,…
Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, Gary Snyder, Louis L'Amour, Rick Bass, William Kittredge, Denise Chavez, Amy Tan, and Sam Shepard. Includes chronology of events and suggested reading. Strong language and some violence. 1999.Worlds apart
Par Ilka Chase. 1972
The actress-author describes her visits to Russia, the ruins in Yucatan, the carnival at Rio, and her safari to Botswana…
in Africa. Practical suggestions on where to go, what to wear, and what to eat are included in this irreverent account. 1972.The Second Macmillan anthology
Par John Metcalf, Leon Rooke. 1989
A collection of short stories, poetry, literary criticism, and memoirs by Canadian authors such as Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Patricia…
Young and Al Purdy. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.The portable Chekhov (The Viking Portable library)
Par Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1975
The portable Renaissance reader
Par James Bruce Ross, Mary Martin McLaughlin. 1981
The roots of the blues: an African search
Par Samuel Barclay Charters. 1981
The author travelled through West Africa on a quest for the origin of the blues. What began as a genealogical…
study became a personal and musical pilgrimage. The account is also a travelogue of the Africa he uncovered. 1981.The coming of Saska
Par Doreen Tovey, Maurice Charles John Wilson. 1976
Author describes the adventures she and her husband encountered in their English village and on a trip to Canada. Meeting…
a rare wolverine and other mishaps such as getting locked out of their camper in the middle of the night in wolf territory enlivened their trip. c1976.Prize stories, 1991: the O. Henry awards
Par William Miller Abrahams. 1991
The first-prize story in the 1991 edition of this short-fiction memorial to O. Henry is John Updike's "A Sandstone Farmhouse."…
The anthology contains stories by new writers as well as established ones, all selected from American publications. To mark editor Abraham's twenty-fifth edition, this volume contains a list of authors included during the twenty-five years, plus comments by this year's winners. 1991.Oscariana: the wit & maxims of Oscar Wilde
Par Oscar Wilde, Stephen Calloway, David Colvin. 1997
A collection which showcases Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime, The Maxims of Oscar…
Wilde and Oscariana, and organized by subject. Includes many epigrams and sayings which ridiculed the conventional wisdom of Wilde's day and skewered its hypocrisies. 1997.Anthologie d'Arthur Buies
Par Arthur Buies. 1994
Il est presque impossible de se procurer en librairie l'oeuvre d'Arthur Buies, même s'il est admis qu'il est l'un des…
plus grands écrivains québécois du XIXe siècle. D'où l'intérêt de la présente anthologie, préparée par Laurent Mailhot et accueillie par un concert de louanges. Les pages et chapitres (chroniques intérieures; histoire, politique, polémique; critique; fragments sous forme de dictionnaire; etc) permettent au lecteur de juger de la vivacité, de la variété et du caractère audacieux d'une oeuvre, d'abord censurée, puis méconnue. Il est grand temps de découvrir cet attachant polémiste dont la seule ambition a été, peut-être, d'étonner ses contemporains par son style. c1978, 1994.Huit femmes pour un pôle
Par Madeleine Griselin. 1988
Jean-du-Sud
Par Yves Gélinas. 1988
A Gathering of spirit: a collection of North American Indian women
Par Beth Brant. 1988
The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony
Par Adam Platt. 2019
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected…
food critics As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn't have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to some revelations which would prove important in his future career as a food critic. In Tokyo, for instance-"a kind of paradise for nose-to-tail cooking"-he learned that "if you're interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly bad meal is much better than a good one." From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, re-tracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glimpse into a life that has intertwined food and travel in exciting and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he puts it, "a professional glutton."I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Par Bassey Ikpi. 2019
A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview Selection A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi's experiences navigating Bipolar…
II and anxiety throughout the course of her life. Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Four years later, she and her mother joined her father in Stillwater, Oklahoma -a move that would be anxiety ridden for any child, but especially for Bassey. Her early years in America would come to be defined by tension: an assimilation further complicated by bipolar II and anxiety that would go undiagnosed for decades. By the time she was in her early twenties, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam, channeling her experiences into art. But something wasn't right-beneath the facade of the confident performer, Bassey's mental health was in a precipitous decline, culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of Bipolar II. Determined to learn from her experiences-and share them with others-Bassey became a mental health advocate and has spent the fourteen years since her diagnosis examining the ways mental health is inextricably intertwined with every facet of ourselves and our lives. Viscerally raw and honest, the result is an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of who we are-and the ways, as honest as we try to be, each of these stories can also be a lie.