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

Mr Darwin's Shooter

McDonald, Roger

My Traitor's Heart

Politics & Social Sciences

Rian Malan

Politics & Government

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

One of today’s top historical espionage writers, considered as good as Le Carré” (Chicago Tribune) and a master” (Rocky Mountain News), John Lawton adds another spellbinding thriller to his Inspector Troy series with Second Violin. The sixth installment in the series, Lawton’s new novel opens in 1938 with Europe on the brink of war. In London, Frederick Troy, newly promoted to the prestigious murder squad at Scotland Yard, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens” that also includes Frederick’s brother, Rod, who learns upon receiving an internment letter that he was born in Austria despite having grown up in England. Hundreds of men are herded by train to a neglected camp on the Isle of Man. And as the bombs start falling on London, a murdered rabbi is found, then another, and another. Amid great war, murder is what matters. Moving from the Nazi-infested alleys of prewar Vienna to the bombed-out streets of 1940 London, and featuring an extraordinary cast of characters, Lawton’s latest thriller is a suspenseful and intelligent novel, as good a spy story as it is an historical narrative.

Second Violin

Lawton, John

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Cosmic Dawn describes a highly interdisciplinary tour of billions of years of cosmic history, an epochal saga drawing on every field of modern science astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and anthropology to address the two most fundamental problems of all: the origins of matter and life. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award, the American Institute of Physics Award, and a National Book Award Nomination.

Cosmic dawn: The origins of matter and life

Science & Math

Chaisson, Eric

Astronomy & Space Science

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

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

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