Selected Letters

7 best books like Selected Letters (Emily Dickinson): Travels with Charley: In Search of America, The Second Mountain, The Great Railway Bazaar, Into the Heart of Borneo, The 12th Planet, The Life of Emily Dickinson, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Author	John Steinbeck
ISBN	0142000701

A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover...

The Second Mountain

Author	David Brooks
ISBN	0812993268

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. In The Second Mountain,...

The Great Railway Bazaar

Author	Paul Theroux
ISBN	0618658947

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local,...

Into the Heart of Borneo

Author	Redmond O'Hanlon
ISBN	0394755405

Humor can be found on the mere incongruity of the person with the place he finds himself in. That is why we enjoy watching those Tarzan-in-the-big-city themed movies: the bewildered savage treating modern civilization as just another type of jungle and behaving just as he was before in his former habitat.

This...

The 12th Planet

Author

Zecharia Sitchin

Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth - evidence that suggests the evidence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world.

The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series...

The Life of Emily Dickinson

Author	Richard B. Sewall
ISBN	0674530802

The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall's monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), won the National Book Award when it was originally published in two volumes. Now available in a one-volume edition, it has been called "by far the best and most complete study of the poet's...

Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes

Author	Isabella Lucy Bird
ISBN	1566470501

Isabella, Isabella, who would have thought? You beat us hands down - in your long skirts and in your early 40's - what an intrepid traveler you were! So enthusiastic, especially about volcanoes (letting the soles of your shoes melt like that, really! and your early morning worship at the altar of lava...