Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru

5 best books like Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru (Hugh Thomson): Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island, Serpent in Paradise, Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies, Room for a Stranger

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0143036556

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...

An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island

Author	Tom Neale
ISBN	0918024765

What we have all now and then dreamed of doing, Tom Neale did: go and live alone on a desert island. For years while storekeeping in the South Pacific, he planned, read and talked until the great day when he was landed on his little kingdom, aware of (but undismayed by) the fact that he would have to struggle...

Serpent in Paradise

Author	Dea Birkett
ISBN	0385488718

Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders--descendants of the Bounty mutineers--Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two centuries, "Fletcher Christian's children," whose culture and...

Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies

Author

Stephanie Wood

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about the...

Room for a Stranger

Author

Melanie Cheng

By the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2018.

Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn’t mind, not really—not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company—but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she...