Major Operation

6 best books like Major Operation (James White): Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, The October Man, The River of Consciousness, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, The Flowers of Vashnoi

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Author	Christina Thompson
ISBN	0062060872

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

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The October Man

Author	Ben Aaronovitch
ISBN	1473224314

Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.

Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.

Enter...

The River of Consciousness

Author	Oliver Sacks
ISBN	0385352565

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.

Oliver...

Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

Author	Robert Kurson
ISBN	1400063361

A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the New York Times bestseller Shadow Divers

Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing...

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Author	Robert Iger
ISBN	0399592091

A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.

Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005,...

The Flowers of Vashnoi

Author

Lois McMaster Bujold

This Vorkosigan novella is kind of a blast from the past, accompanied by a large dose of radiation. :)

Miles, his wife Ekaterin, and the scientist Enrique Borgos, are trying to reclaim a section of their land that was radiation-poisoned in a long-ago war, using the infamous butterbugs from...