Baghdad Without A Map And Other Misadventures In Arabia

Travel

tony-horwitz

Travel Writing

Angus & Robertson Limited

The author recounts his experiences traveling through the Middle East, describing Beirut's shell-shocked streets, the Ayatollah Khomeini's grief-crazed funeral, and an unexpected encounter with Muammar Qadaffi

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

Dutton

A Voyage Long and Strange : Rediscovering the New World

History

Americas

John Murray

Confederates in the Attic

Confederates In The Attic

Sceptre

Confederates in the Attic - Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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Amazon.com Review Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Yet despite his monumental discoveries, principally in the South Pacific, Cook the man has remained an enigma. In retracing key legs of the circumnavigator's journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the cultural and environmental havoc wrought by the captain's opening of the unspoiled Pacific to the West, as well as the alternately indifferent and passionate reactions Cook's name evokes during the writer's journeys through Polynesia, Australia, the Aleutians, and the explorer's native England. Horwitz skillfully weaves a biography and travel narrative with warm humor that is natural and human-scale, and his restless inquisitiveness quickly infects the reader. While striking dichotomies abound throughout that journey--Maori toughs who adopt Nazi imagery to symbolize their own fight against white domination, millennia-old Polynesian sexual mores that would shame the Reeperbahn, a sense that Christianity decimated native cultures at least as effectively as Western venereal diseases did--few are more poignant than the ones that abound in Cook's own life. This fine work is an adventurous reminder that answers to historical riddles are elusive at best--and seldom as compelling as the myriad new questions they pose. --Jerry McCulley

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Picador/Henry Holt And Co.

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart.Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance.

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Vintage

The neglected story of America's founding by Europeans. Horwitz begins 1,000 years ago with the Vikings, throughout the French voyageurs, Moorish slaves, long before the Mayflower landed. He rediscovers the new world.

a voyage Long and strange

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

Henry Holt and Co.

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