Rabble in Arms
8 best books like Rabble in Arms (Kenneth Roberts): Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, 1919, Tree Castle Island, The 42nd Parallel, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics, Dead Man's Grip, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0670037605 |
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?
This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying...
| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 0618056823 |
With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0060002565 |
Fourteen-year-old Jack sets out in a handmade canoe for the legendary Okefenokee Swamp. But after several idyllic days of exploring, he's hit with some bad luck. He can't find his way home, and he runs into a hungry alligator who takes a bite out of his canoe. When he pulls up to a remote island, he finds...
| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 0618056815 |
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world....
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0606334696 |
In the late 1800s America arraigned a conglomerate of six vessels who set out to map the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Philbrick describes the suffering of the crew, thirst, immobilized in the 'victim's or equatorial regions, and irascible bad tempers. Illness was prevalent.
The worst thing was the lack...
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
| Author | Charles Krauthammer |
| ISBN | 0385349173 |
From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges...
| Author | Peter James |
| ISBN | 0312642830 |
Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident that kills a teenage American student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered....
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
| Author | Kate Harris |
| ISBN | 0345816781 |
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