The true story of two young men with one ambition: “to descend the Amazon from its beginning.” It was a feat that no one before them had claimed. After six years of prospecting for gold in South Africa, 31-year-old Lee Williams sails to South America in pursuit of adventure. A long horseback trek across the highlands of Argentina brings him to La Paz, Bolivia, where he meets James Orton, an Englishman and, like himself, “an experienced victim of the wanderlust.” Their expedition begins without fanfare high in the mountains of southern Perú. Day after day, as they follow the Urubamba River into the depths of endless rain forest, the trappings of civilization vanish behind them. Along that river, they will dine with plantation owners and, weeks later, beg an Indian woman for a bite of food. They will build a raft and drift peacefully one day, then cling to it for life the next. They will encounter the savagery of rubber barons and slave traders, but also the humanity of the people they call “savages.” As they near their journey’s end, they will imagine the acclaim that awaits them. But their story will take a tragic turn and have a far different ending.

Amazonia 1907: Outside the Circle of Civilization

Biographies & Memoirs

Williams, Lee English

Historical

Fair Oaks Press

This landmark book features 200 privately commissioned and rarely seen bookplates from a signature American artist, with information about the origin and design of each. 120 illustrations.

ROCKWELL KENT: ART OF THE BOOKPLATE

Arts & Photography

Roberts, Don

History & Criticism

Teddy Bears

Beth Van Hoesen

Oddly moving, serious, fine-art paintings of people's beloved Teddy Bears. In 1995, San Francisco artist Beth Van Hoesen began painting teddy bears, a subject perplexing to those who knew her as a serious painter and printmaker. Over the next five years, she borrowed dozens of stuffed bears to create a collection celebrating the teddy bear - not as a cultural icon, but as a lifelong companion. She treats her subject with truth and affection, creating strangely intimate portraits of these 36 bears, each accompanied by a few words from the bear's owner or maker.

Hoesen, Beth Van

Painting

The most complete edition of Twain's two stories, it uses Mark Twain's preferred text and includes passages not previously included--and not available in any other version. The editor's afterword tells how Twain came to write the "Diaries," which are recognized today as his most personal works of fiction. "Funny? Yes. And you expect that from Twain. But this is also a love story... " --Birmingham Weekly, May 1999 "The sort of book that makes for deeply satisfying reading... one of the great love stories of all time." --The Mark Twain Forum, January 1999

The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain

Literature & Fiction

Mark, Twain

United States

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The Diaries of Adam & Eve (CD)

Reference

An American legend rewrites a remarkably contemporary Adam and Eve. In tackling the first three chapters of Genesis, Twain creates a story of The First Couple who are psychologically familiar to even 21st Century Americans. He wrote the Diaries as a tribute to his own marriage, so they are also his most heartfelt and personal work. Between 1893 and 1906, he attempted six versions; only these satisfied him and were published in his lifetime. 
This expanded edition is • beautifully illustrated • faithful to Twain's final rewrites • faithful to Twain's wish that the two tales be "bound together" • and includes passages published for the first time.

The Diaries of Adam & Eve (Audio Cassette)

TWAIN,MARK

Reference & Collections

The most complete edition of Twain's two stories, it uses Mark Twain's preferred text and includes passages not previously included--and not available in any other version. The editor's afterword tells how Twain came to write the "Diaries," which are recognized today as his most personal works of fiction.

The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Translated by Mark Twain

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Amazonia 1907: Outside the Circle of Civilization

ROCKWELL KENT: ART OF THE BOOKPLATE

Teddy Bears

Teddy Bears

The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain

The Diaries of Adam & Eve (CD)

The Diaries of Adam & Eve (Audio Cassette)

The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Translated by Mark Twain