Det Lykkelige Arabien: En Dansk Ekspedition, 1761 67
10 best books like Det Lykkelige Arabien: En Dansk Ekspedition, 1761 67 (Thorkild Hansen): A Visit to Don Otavio, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, Dukla, Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America), The Fault Line: Traveling the Other Europe, From Finland to Ukraine, The Tree with No Name, The Symmetry Teacher
Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she set out...
Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced.
In 1918,...
| Author | Artemis Cooper |
| ISBN | 0719554497 |
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated...
| Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| ISBN | 1590171888 |
The Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its people's...
Tim Robinson’s epic exploration of the desolate, storm-lashed, limestone rocks, which have already haunted generations of Irish writers, takes the form of a clockwise journey around the coast. Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully...
| Author | Andrzej Stasiuk |
| ISBN | 1564786870 |
At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is “write a book about light.” The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes....
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
| Author | David L. Ulin |
| ISBN | 1931082278 |
Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thomson imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying...
| Author | Paolo Rumiz |
| ISBN | 0847845427 |
An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two--first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU--moving through...
A diary recounting four decades’ worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river–the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their owners’ identities and fates. Shifting...
| Author | Andrei Bitov |
| ISBN | 0374273510 |
One of Russia’s finest novelists and an heir to the literature of Gogol, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, Andrei Bitov has been widely hailed as a progenitor of the postmodern novel. The Teacher of Symmetry is his love letter to the art of storytelling. Layered with playful games between writer and reader,...
| Author | Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer |
| ISBN | 0933050461 |
The Farm in the Green Mountains is the story of a family finding home halfway across the world from their homeland.
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar, Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma...
| Author | J.R. Ackerley |
| ISBN | 0940322250 |
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of...
| Author | Trevor Burnard |
| ISBN | 0807855251 |
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive...
| Author | Peter Øvig Knudsen |
| ISBN | 8702043696 |
Fascinating story chronicling the story of one of the largest robbery/terror groups in Denmark. “Blekingegadebanden” (the gang of Blekingegade (street name)” was a group of communist/marxisist/maoistic activists who started out as political activists in the 1960’s and 70’s anti-capitalist...
Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
| Author | Sigrid Rausing |
| ISBN | 0802122175 |
Just like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature of totalitarianism.
In 1993-94 Sigrid Rausing completed...
| Author | Bjarne Reuter |
| ISBN | 8702040603 |
Roman om herboristen, ligrøveren og kvaksalveren Giuseppe Emanuele Pagamino, der i 1348 kommer til det pestramte Firenze for at se, hvad der er at erhverve af kostbarheder dér. I et hus fyldt med lig finder han drengen Arturo, som sammen med æslet Bonifacius bliver Giuseppes tro følgesvend. Sammen...
| Author | Steven Nightingale |
| ISBN | 1619024608 |
Granada is one of the iconic cities of the world. It stands for the culture of Al-Andalus, composed of Moslems, Jews, and Christians, who lived together in the legendary convivencia of the Spanish Middle Ages. Al-Andalus gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only...
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires
| Author | Dominic Ziegler |
| ISBN | 1594203679 |
Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia’s great rivers that reveals the region’s essential history and culture. The world’s ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers...
| Author | Joseph Roth |
| ISBN | 0811222780 |
The incomparable Joseph Roth imagines Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and...
What is life like in a totalitarian regime?
It is a question which has always fascinated Theodore Dalrymple - whose father was a strict if slightly inconsistent Communist.
The Wilder Shores of Marx sees the acclaimed writer visit five countries which still labour under systems inspired...
| Author | Matthew Neill Null |
| ISBN | 1940596084 |
In this lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies—and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries.
After fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal,...
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
| Author | Darío Fernández-Morera |
| ISBN | 1610170954 |
Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“al-Andalus”—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony.
There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth.
In this...
"Hærværk", Tom Kristensens selvbiografiske hovedværk fra 1930, er uden tvivl en af de største danske romanklassikere fra det 20. århundrede.
Romanen fortæller historien om den fallerede digter Ole Jastrau, der bryder op fra sin borgerlige tilværelse som familiefar og litteraturredaktør...
| Author | Steffen Kverneland |
| ISBN | 8282550264 |
Steffen Kvernelands Munch er en biografi i tegneserieform. Framstillingen er gjort på bakgrunn av sitater fra Munchs egne skrifter og samtidige skildringer fra Munchs liv og karriere. Steffen Kverneland er en av landets aller fremste tegneseriekunstnere og har med dette verket løftet mediet...
