How to Write: Advice and Reflections

7 best books like How to Write: Advice and Reflections (Richard Rhodes): My Ántonia, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, The Sobbing School, The Tree Where Man Was Born

My Ántonia
AuthorWilla Cather
ISBN1583485090
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride,...
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
AuthorJonathan Weiner
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin...
AuthorPeter Allison
ISBN0762745657
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!”

In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush,...
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
AuthorDelia Owens
ISBN0395680905
I really wanted to love this book. I tried. The information and the story of what these two conservationists have done is amazing, however the overly flowery descriptions and romanticized views of Africa almost drowned out the reason for the book. In North Lunagwa National Park in Zambia the elephants...
AuthorNoah Strycker
ISBN1594486352
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.

Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to...
The Sobbing School
AuthorJoshua Bennett
ISBN0143111868
Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series  
 
The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary...
The Tree Where Man Was Born
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0140239340
I purchased this book in anticipation of a journey to Africa. This chronicle is nonfiction, but it reads with the depth and intensity of poetry. Even though this book was written about the author’s experience and impressions of Africa on a series of trips in the 1960’s his insights remain timeless....
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