Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
8 best books like Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth (Dennis McCarthy): Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, Conqueror, The Chosen, Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time, Warlord, Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico, The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers, Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0575075163 |
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space . . . Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE, British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY, and REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination and breathtaking...
Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue to one victory over the barbarian nations after another, until he is close to achieving his secret mission: resurrecting interstellar civilization with the help of the ancient battle computer Center, which whispers at the back of...
| Author | S.M. Stirling |
| ISBN | 0671877240 |
The human galactic federation is in ruins, and the worlds have devolved to various levels of barbarism. On the planet Bellevue, which is at about the early nineteenth century in development, a young officer named Raj Whitehall and his friend venture into the catacombs under the capital. There, they...
Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time
Debates on the authenticity of the Star Wars franchise and the hero-or-villain status of George Lucas are at the heart of these essays by bestselling science-fiction authors. The incredible popularity of the movies has led to the formation of strong emotions within the science fiction community...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0743435877 |
Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue, when he came across an ancient but still functioning Fleet Battle Computer named Center. With Center's vast fund of knowledge and strategic calculating abilities, Raj could...
Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
| Author | Tony Cohan |
| ISBN | 0767920910 |
Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as—faced with the invasion of the town by tourists...
The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
| Author | Alex Banayan |
| ISBN | 0804136661 |
The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.
The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented...
Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home
| Author | Matthew Kepnes |
| ISBN | 1250190517 |
Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad.
"Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world...
