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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham

10 best books like A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham (Steve Kemper): Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth, Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of the Other Side of the Wind, Selected Essays, Augustine: A New Biography, Jim Bridger: Mountain Man, Wolf: The Lives of Jack London, Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War, Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, And Vulgar Excesses, A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park, Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth
AuthorHilary Spurling
ISBN1416540423
Not a biography, more a study of her life in China and how that effected her, the book trails off wrapping up half her life in a couple of dozen disaster filled and disappointment flavoured pages.

Pearl Buck was just a name to me, one of that curious tribe of once very popular authors who are now largely...
Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of the Other Side of the Wind
AuthorJosh Karp
ISBN1250007089
In the summer of 1970 legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. Coincidentally it was the story of a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years...
Selected Essays
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0140390138
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that an appreciation of its vast natural resources would become the foundation of American culture. His assertion that human thought and actions proceed from nature, was a radical departure from the traditional European emphasis on domesticating nature to suit human...
Augustine: A New Biography
AuthorJames J. O'Donnell
ISBN0060535377
O'Donnell, provost at Georgetown University and editor of the definitive edition of Augustine's Confessions, is admirably qualified to chronicle the life of the man who wrote history's most famous autobiography. But in this book, suffused with the methods (though thankfully not the tortured vocabulary)...
Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
AuthorStanley Vestal
ISBN0803257201
Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink....
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London
AuthorJames L. Haley
ISBN0465004784
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—by turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would...
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
AuthorRobert Roper
ISBN0802715532
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
viii, 421 pp. 8vo. The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper's brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman. Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound...
Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, And Vulgar Excesses
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0201570009
This is a pleasant collection of short essays, many of which were previously read by the author on NPR. Pinkwater waxes eloquently on his boyhood, his weight, writing and art, teaching writing and art, and owning befriending dogs.

No surprise here, but my favorite essays involved food and...
A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
AuthorEdward O. Wilson
ISBN1476747415
The remarkable story of how one of the most biologically diverse habitats in the world was destroyed, restored, and continues to evolve—with stunning, full-color photographs by two of the world’s best wildlife photographers.

A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose...
Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
AuthorRobert Graysmith
The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (who Mark Twain met during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist on the loose in mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.

   When...
Mornings in Mexico
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN1845118685
Much of D.H. Lawrence's life was defined by his passion for travel and it was those wanderings that gave life to some of his greatest novels. In the 1920s Lawrence travelled several times to Mexico, where he was fascinated by the clash of beauty and brutality, purity and darkness that he observed. The...
War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
AuthorJohn F. Ross
ISBN0553804960
What is it about the way U.S. history is taught that makes it uninteresting to so many Americans? I wish I knew. Perhaps the lessons we get in fourth grade — third grade was Colorado history for me — are so poorly constructed as to seem worn and trite. Regardless, it's a shame we can't do better at making...
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
AuthorChristopher B. Krebs
ISBN0393062651
The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height...
The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature
AuthorBill Goldstein
ISBN0805094024
A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual journey four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot,...
The Parthenon Enigma
AuthorJoan Breton Connelly
Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most...
Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton
AuthorByron Farwell
ISBN0140120688
No man can be all things at once, no matter how hard he tries, but no man ever tried harder than Richard Francis Burton. He made significant contributions in the fields of literature and geography, and was also a poet, traveler, soldier, diplomat, inventor, explorer, archaeologist, student of religion...
African Silences
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0679731024
African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- nominated for...
Head Games
AuthorCraig McDonald
ISBN1932557423
You start a book like Head Games, set as it is in the fifties, and you wonder if it has to go so hard on period details like casual homophobia, and so often at that. The first novel written in Craig McDonald's Hector Lassiter series, although the seventh chronologically, starts well. People die indiscriminately,...
The German Aces Speak: World War II Through the Eyes of Four of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
AuthorColin D. Heaton
For the first time, four German WWII pilots share their side of the story.
 
Few perspectives epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of combat more perfectly than those of the fighter pilots of World War II. As romanticized as any soldier in history, the WWII fighter pilot was viewed as larger...
Det Lykkelige Arabien: En Dansk Ekspedition, 1761 67
AuthorThorkild Hansen
ISBN8701234021
It was not for colonization nor for trade that six men left Copenhagen by sea in 1761. They were not charged with spreading Christianity; they wanted no slaves. The Age of Enlightenment had its moments, after all. It was an all-star team of scientists: a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor,...
Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip through Hell and High Water in Post-earthquake Japan
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
Just weeks after multiple disasters struck Japan, National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann ventures into the nuclear hot zone, outfitted only with rubber kitchen gloves, a cloth facemask, and a capricious radiation detector. In this Byliner Original from the new digital publisher Byliner,...
The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
AuthorJohn L. Allen Jr.
ISBN0770437354
One of the most respected journalists in the United States and the bestselling author of The Future Church uses his unparalleled knowledge of world affairs and religious insight to investigate the troubling worldwide persecution of Christians.
 
From Iraq and Egypt to Sudan and Nigeria,...
Combat Crew
AuthorJohn Comer
Combat Crew is one of the best memoirs about the air war over Europe ever written.

John Comer kept a journal of the 25 missions he flew in 1943 when the casualty rate on his base was close to 80%. After each raid Comer gathered the crew together and pieced together the air battle from a 360-degree...
Churchill: A Study in Greatness
AuthorGeoffrey Best
ISBN0195161394
One of the glorious triumvirate of World War II and founder of the strong Anglo-American friendship that is still apparent today, Winston Churchill stands out in history as a man who led his country through one of its most difficult times, with all of the steadfastness of a fierce and loyal bulldog. Churchill...
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader
AuthorIda B. Wells-Barnett
ISBN0143106821
The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer

Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat....
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