Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
5 best books like Golden Earth: Travels in Burma (Norman Lewis): The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma, The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery, Shackleton's Boat Journey, The Journal Of Brian Doyle: Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874, I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
| Author | Thant Myint-U |
| ISBN | 0374163421 |
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma--through sanctions and tourist boycotts--only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521433 |
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less...
| Author | Frank A. Worsley |
| ISBN | 1841580635 |
This is an account of the Shackleton boat journey. The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton...
The Journal Of Brian Doyle: Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0439078148 |
In Jim Murphy's newest MNIA, Jonathan Dodge runs away from home to escape his father's anger. He joins the crew of a whaling ship headed for Alaska's frozen seas, where he finds danger and adventure.
Jim Murphy once again writes an exciting story of a young boy on the cusp of a great, and sometimes...
I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words
| Author | George Beahm |
| ISBN | 1932841660 |
Drawn from more than three decades of media coverage—print, electronic, and online—this tribute serves up the best, most thought-provoking insights ever spoken by Steve Jobs: more than 200 quotations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions and inspirations...
