Hartley, an acclaimed frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of his own family's 150-year-colonial legacy in Africa. A beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid young men cut down in their prime, of forbidden love and its fatal consequences, and of family and history. and the collision of cultures over the enduring course of British colonialism in Africa that defined them both.

The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War

Hartley, Aidan

Biographies & Memoirs

Atlantic Monthly Press

This book is a tribute to the world's greatest natural history monographs and contains colour plates which reveal the full breadth of achievement attained during the 18th and 19th centuries. First published over 35 years ago, this expanded edition includes more colour plates and a new foreword. The book represents the collaborative efforts of leading authorities in the fields of ornithology, art history and rare-book connoisseurship. The colour plates featured in the book include work by John James Audubon, Jacques Barraband, Mark Catesby, Daniel Giraud Elliot, John Gould, Robert Havell, John Keulemans, Edward Lear, Edouard Travies and Joseph Wolf.

Fine bird books, 1700-1900

SITWELL, Sacheverell

Leading Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner reflects on his nation from Stalin to perestroika, the evolution of the Communist party, past "cultural genocide," and the world's emergence from Cold War thinking

Parting with Illusions

Pozmer, Vladimir

When Louis XIV died in 1715 after 72 years on the throne, very few regretted hispassing. The great king had becaome a testy and ill-humoured bore, depending more and more on his wife Mme de Maintenon. He knew that his succession was fragile as it depended upon his five year old child and, to support him, the man who became regent, Philippe d' Orleans, who represented everything the king feared and detested. He was a hard drinking womaniser: in 1715 he went on trial accused of poisoning the heirs to the throne, committing incest with his daughter and engaging in treasonable activities in spain. Philippe was 41 when he became Regent and despite his sure ability to shock he possessed another side to his character. He was a cultivated and artist prince, a kind hearted father and curious about the arts,science, history and above all human nature.

The man who would be King: the life of Philippe D'Orleans, Regent of France

PEVITT, Christine

A full scale biography of one of our most powerful Secretaries of State and a masterful study of the diplomacy of the Eisenhower years.

The Devil and John Foster Dulles

Hoopes, Townsend

In the autumn of 1971, Kathryn Hulme, her dearest friend Lou -- on whom her famous best seller, The Nun's Story, was based -- and their friend Juliet made a bone-shaking safari of twenty-five hundred miles in a Land Rover with an open hatch, photographing the animals and the natives, and absorbing the impact of the great national parks in Kenya and Tanzania.

Look A Lion In the Eye: On Safari Through Africa

Hulme, Kathryn

Dusty Hopkins was worried because it looked like he wouldn't be able to attend the Old-timer's picnic, all because of an argument his Pa and Mr. Folly had about who played the best fiddle. "No Hopkins shall set foot on Folly land and no Folly shall set foot on Hopkins land. That's the way it is" declared Dusty's Pa. DUSTY AND THE FIDDLERS is the delightful Miska Miles children's tale of little Dusty Hopkins, his friend Viola Folly and how they manage to resolve a silly feud involving the pride of their families and neighbors. This is the WEEKLY READER CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB EDITION

Dusty and the Fiddlers

Arts & Photography

Miles, Miska

Music

Stated Atlantic Monthly Press 1st Edition, 1986. Hardcover. 294 pgs. In good condition. Dust Jacket shows minor wear & small tear on lower front. No marks, notes, labels, folds nor creases.

Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman

Literature & Fiction

Sissman, L. E.

Poetry

The bestselling author of Parliament of Whores now dismantles victims ranging from backpack liberals to Lee Iacocca and surveys the collapse of communism, celebrity, and liberalism. "Whatever your political persuasion, you would have to be totally humorless not to feel like chuckling when he (O'Rourke) starts hacking away".--New York Times Book Review.

Give War A Chance - Eyewitness Accounts Of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice And Alcohol-free Beer

Humor & Entertainment

P.J. O'ROURKE

Humor

Peace Kills: America's fun New Imperialism

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