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Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark

10 best books like Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Jane Fletcher Geniesse): The Women of the Copper Country, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia, Arabian Sands, The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?, The Reason You Walk, Someone to Look Up To, The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya

The Women of the Copper Country
AuthorMary Doria Russell
ISBN1982109580

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their...
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
AuthorBill Geist
ISBN1538729806
Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller.
Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation,...
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
AuthorJanet Wallach
ISBN1400096197
Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and...
Arabian Sands
AuthorWilfred Thesiger
ISBN0140095144
"Arabian Sands" is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the...
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
AuthorFreya Stark
ISBN0375757538
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only...
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
AuthorGeorgina Howell
ISBN0374161623
A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
 
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind...
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
AuthorMarion Meade
ISBN0140116168
She was known for outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker - a private life set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with...
The Reason You Walk
AuthorWab Kinew
ISBN0670069345
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic Aboriginal star.

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised...
Someone to Look Up To
AuthorJean Gill
ISBN2955010162
By IPPY and Global Ebook Award Winner Jean Gill A dog's life in the south of France. From puppyhood, Sirius the Pyrenean Mountain Dog has been trying to understand his humans and train them with kindness.

How this led to their divorce he has no idea. More misunderstandings take Sirius to Death...
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
AuthorFrances Osborne
ISBN1844084817
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...
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
AuthorNancy Milford
ISBN0375760814
Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally,...
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
AuthorNeil Gorsuch
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Justice Neil Gorsuch reflects on his journey to the Supreme Court, the role of the judge under our Constitution, and the vital responsibility of each American to keep our republic strong.
 
As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was reportedly...
The Hand of Chaos
AuthorMargaret Weis
ISBN0553563696
The Hand of Chaos

Chaos is everywhere as the Lord of the Nexus orders his servant Haplo and the human child known as Bane to further their master's work on Arianus, the realm of air. But their one time companion Alfred has been cast into the deadly Labyrinth. And somehow the assassin Hugh the Hand...
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