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10 best books like Tattoo (Earl Thompson): Gringos, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology, The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century, The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island, Enemies of Promise

Gringos
AuthorCharles Portis
ISBN1585670936
Gringos isn’t exactly what I wanted from Charles Portis at this time. Yes, I realize Portis probably had his own literary agenda, but naturally I prefer mine: i.e., that he continue to write short, funny, meandering books about semi-enlightened rednecks. Gringos fits several of these bills if you...
Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
AuthorKangxi
Manchu Monarch’s Memorable Moments and More

Jonathan Spence has not written any bad books. If you want readable, interesting books about China which take unusual angles, choose any of his. This one, which focuses on the life of the Qing (Manchu) emperor Kang-hsi (now spelled Kangxi) who...
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
AuthorPatrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN1848547528
In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year. Decades later, when he was well over fifty, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey...
The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
AuthorKobayashi Issa
ISBN1570621446
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the...
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742151
From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance...
The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556590954
Astonishing poetry collection. One of the few poets that I read cover to cover and then again few more times, untill I know each poem by heart.

Looking Forward to Age

I will walk down to a marina
on a hot day and not go out to sea.

I will go to bed and get up early,
and carry...
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World
AuthorShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
ISBN0143107488
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30 volumes--here abridged to one volume, and translated...
Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
AuthorDaniel Hernandez
ISBN1416577033
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion,...
The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN1899863249
There was a toast among the clans when they banqueted. A clansman would rise, lift a cup, and say, "To the land of the bens and the glens!" And up from the food the faces would move, and every man would roar out, "To the land of the bens and the glens!"

Och, a toast to start.

Our current President...
Enemies of Promise
AuthorCyril Connolly
ISBN0892550783
An enduring classic by one of England's finest critics, on why so many gifted writers fall short of attaining greatness.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.--Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England,...
A Russian Gentleman
AuthorSergei Aksakov
ISBN0192815733
At the center of this chronicle of Russian provincial life in the reign of Catherine the Great stands the patriarchal figure of the author's grandfather, Stepan Mikhailovich. A man of great natural dignity, imbued with respect for tradition and love of the land, he is also despotic and virtually illiterate....
History of My Life, Vols. I & II
AuthorGiacomo Casanova
ISBN0801856620
In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary--but is soon expelled. He is briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Sant' Andrea. After wandering from Naples to Rome in search of a patron, he enters...
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
AuthorMolly Molloy
ISBN1568586582
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained...
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
AuthorGustave Flaubert
ISBN0140435824
At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a “sensibility on tour,” Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer’s impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert’s traveling companion, Maxime...
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, Revised Edition, with a New Preface
AuthorRoss E. Dunn
ISBN0520243854
When I met Professor Dunn, he was already being called America's foremost authority on Ibn Battuta. As we discussed our mutually favored subject, I will never forget how he commented, "I believe I can say that I know just how a Maliki scholar in the 14th century would think."

Ibn Battuta's name...
A Flag For Sunrise
AuthorRobert Stone
ISBN0330370979
An Astonishing Saga of Politics, War, and Americans Out of Place, by a National Book Award Winner! Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country...
The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
AuthorFawn M. Brodie
ISBN0393301664
Starting in a hollowed log of wood—some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!"


So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of the lower Congo in 1863, wrote to Monckton...
The Crock of Gold (Revised Edition)
AuthorJames Stephens
ISBN1406830275
Truly unique, it is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the battle of the sexes all with charm, humour and good grace. The Crock of Gold contains 6 books: Book 1 – The Coming of Pan, Book 2 – The Philosophers Journey, Book 3 – The Two Gods, Book 4 – The Philosophers Return, Book 5 – The Policemen,...
Here's to You, Jesusa!
AuthorElena Poniatowska
ISBN0142001228
Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during the Mexican Revolution, she finds herself at the Revolution's end in Mexico City, far from her...
The Bridge in the Jungle
AuthorB. Traven
ISBN1566630630
Regarded by many as B. Traven's finest novel, The Bridge in the Jungle is a tale of a simple, desperately poor people coming together in the face of a death that affects them all. The locale is "huts by the river, " a nameless Indian settlement deep in the Mexican bush, too small to appear on any map. A festive...
Gordon
AuthorEdith Templeton
ISBN0375421947
Originally written under a pseudonym, this thrilling novel of passion in post-World War II London was banned upon its publication in the late 1960s, and is only now being republished under the author's real name. Edith Templeton creates an indelible character in the smartly dressed Louisa, a savvy...
Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life
AuthorKarel Čapek
ISBN0945774087
This trilogy of novels was the culmination of Karel Capek's career. The novels share neither characters nor events; instead, they approach the problem of knowing people—of mutual understanding—in a variety of ways. Detectives faced with a murder reconstruct the crime, but not the character...
Young Henry of Navarre
AuthorHeinrich Mann
ISBN1585674877
review of
Heinrich Mann's Young Henry of Navarre
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - February 1, 2016
full review: "Moderation, By Any Means Necessary?": https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

THIS REVIEW ISN'T LONG ENUF BUT THERE IS A LONGER VERSION AT THE ABOVE URL.

Heinrich...
Mieke Maaike's obscene jeugd
AuthorLouis Paul Boon
In't kort:
Student Stijvekleut maakt een proefschrift over 'het kutodelisch verschijnsel bij aankomende kindwijfjes', waarbij het veldmateriaal (ic een interview met Mieke Maaike) is nagevoegd. Het zwaartepunt ligt uiteraard op het verhaal van Mieke Maaike zelf, waarin ze haar seksuele...
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