Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

7 best books like Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Sara Wheeler): A Place of Execution, A Thousand Acres, Paris to the Moon, In the Lake of the Woods, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Worst Journey in the World, Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

A Place of Execution

Author	Val McDermid
ISBN	0312979533

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George Bennett it...

A Thousand Acres

Author	Jane Smiley
ISBN	1400033837

Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny, and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her...

Paris to the Moon

Author	Adam Gopnik
ISBN	0375758232

With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés,...

In the Lake of the Woods

Author

Tim O'Brien

This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

In these first five stories about Poe's detective Auguste Dupin, he establishes many of the traditions or motifs we know from classic detective fiction. The eccentric but brilliant detective who solves the mystery merely by analysing the facts from his armchair, the mystery of how a murder was committed...

The Worst Journey in the World

Author	Apsley Cherry-Garrard
ISBN	0143039385

The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey, draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots...

Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

Author	Lennard Bickel
ISBN	1586420003

Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion,...