Greene on Capri
9 best books like Greene on Capri (Shirley Hazzard): The Road to Serfdom, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Master and Commander, Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Berlin Childhood around 1900, The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
| Author | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| ISBN | 0226320618 |
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the...
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 0870714996 |
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393307050 |
As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency...
Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
| Author | Charles Lane |
| ISBN | 1335006850 |
Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle
In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American...
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0312420137 |
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0525426760 |
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.
Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final...
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
| Author | Frances Osborne |
| ISBN | 1844084817 |
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off...
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
| Author | Brian Kilmeade |
| ISBN | 0735213232 |
Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the...
