North to the Orient
10 best books like North to the Orient (Anne Morrow Lindbergh): Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story, The Last Grain Race, The Spirit of St. Louis, A Thatched Roof, Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir, Det Lykkelige Arabien: En Dansk Ekspedition, 1761 67, The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion
| Author | Judy Corbett |
| ISBN | 0091897319 |
When Judy Corbett caught sight of a great stone mansion in the craggy wilds of north Wales, she had little idea of the adventure on which she was about to embark. She and her husband, Peter, had long dreamed of buying an old ruin and escaping the pace and excesses of modern life. But it was only when they had...
| Author | P.L. Travers |
| ISBN | 0850307864 |
Years ago, when I was in my own dark wood wandering and could not find my way, serendipity sent What the Bee Knows: Reflections On Myth, Symbol and Story my way. I immersed myself in P.L. Travers feminine-centered retelling of Greek myths, her essays, poems and interviews. Her essay titled, Re-Stroying...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 0864427689 |
In 1938 an eighteen-year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel...
| Author | Charles A. Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0743237056 |
The classic, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Charles A. Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight
Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again…
Charles...
| Author | Beverley Nichols |
| ISBN | 0881927287 |
Beverley Nichols fans, armchair gardeners, and literature enthusiasts will delight in this reprint of the second book in his Allways trilogy, with facsimile reproductions of Rex Whistler's original graceful illustrations and a new foreword by Roy C. Dicks. Nichols's humorous ruminations on life...
| Author | Thomas DeBaggio |
| ISBN | 0743205669 |
"We are foolish, those of us who think we can escape the traps of aging," writes Tom DeBaggio. "I was one of them, dreaming of a perfect and healthy old age....Now, at fifty-eight, I realize the foolishness of my dreams as I watch my brain self-destruct from Alzheimer's." Losing My Mind is DeBaggio's extraordinary...
| Author | Celia Lyttelton |
| ISBN | 0593051149 |
When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, she realized a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils and essences, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Thorkild Hansen |
| ISBN | 8701234021 |
It was not for colonization nor for trade that six men left Copenhagen by sea in 1761. They were not charged with spreading Christianity; they wanted no slaves. The Age of Enlightenment had its moments, after all. It was an all-star team of scientists: a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor,...
| Author | Barbara Sjoholm |
| ISBN | 1593761597 |
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.
Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
| Author | Thomas Graboys |
| ISBN | 1402753411 |
At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of “The Cardiology Dream Team” summoned to treat Boston Celtics...
| Author | Connie Rice |
| ISBN | 1416575006 |
From one of the nation’s most influential civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—a noble, hard-hitting memoir chronicling the life of a fiercely powerful woman dedicated to public service.
Connie Rice has taken on the bus system, the...
| Author | Julia Fox Garrison |
| ISBN | 0061120618 |
Just an ordinary day . . .
You get up, fix breakfast for your three-year-old son, drive yourself to work -- a day like any other. You're running late for a meeting, and as you hurry down the hall, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and suddenly your vision explodes and . . . you're gone.
When...
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
| Author | R.D. Rosen |
| ISBN | 1595581650 |
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species...
| Author | Reeve Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0385334443 |
"We Lindberghs still know ourselves best as a tribe: close-knit, self-enclosed, and self-defining, always prepared to be besieged by invisible forces upwelling from the past...."
The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and controversial...
| Author | Rene O. Villanueva |
| ISBN | 9712714217 |
Sa mahigit na 40 informal essays na tinipon sa Personal: Mga Sanaysay sa Lupalop ng Gunita, nagbalik sa kanyang unang 20 taon ang itinuring na isa sa pangunahing contemporary playwrights at awtor ng kuwentong-pambata, si Rene O. Villanueva, na ang unang hinangaang characters sa fiction ay sina Engot...
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0143039733 |
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all...
| Author | Jenna Bailey |
| ISBN | 0571233139 |
Fifty Years of Friendship through a Secret Magazine
Jenna Bailey
In 1935, a young woman wrote a letter to the women's magazine Nursery World:
'Can any mother help me? I live a very lonely life as I have no near neighbours. I cannot afford to buy a wireless. I adore reading, but...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life
| Author | Susan Hertog |
| ISBN | 0385720076 |
An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea...
Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
| Author | R.G. Grant |
| ISBN | 0756619025 |
From the early pioneers to the latest spaceflight technology, this groundbreaking book charts the inspirational story behind humankind's conquest of the skies. In the 100 years since the Wright brothers' first powered flight, aviation has witnessed many memorable events. From record-breaking...
Long Way Back to the River Kwai: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II
| Author | Loet Velmans |
| ISBN | 1628721650 |
Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter "SeamanOCOs Hope" and then sailed to the Dutch East IndiesOConow IndonesiaOCowhere he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners...
The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of Wright family...
| Author | Marion Crawford |
| ISBN | 0312312156 |
Once upon a time, in 1930s England, there were two little princesses named Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England.
We all know how the fairy tale ended: When King George died, “Uncle...
Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
| Author | Rick Newman |
| ISBN | 0345465385 |
They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made.
In today’s wars,...
