The Blue Nile

7 best books like The Blue Nile (Alan Moorehead): Truth Like the Sun, Gap Creek, Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier, The Truest Pleasure, A Bigamist's Daughter, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols

Truth Like the Sun

Author

Jim Lynch

A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle both in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World's Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush.

Larger than life, Roger Morgan was the mastermind behind the fair...

Gap Creek

Author	Robert Morgan
ISBN	0743203631

Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will...

Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

Author	Mark Adams
ISBN	1101985100

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition.

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds...

The Truest Pleasure

Author	Robert Morgan
ISBN	1565122224

Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family has given up on her ever marrying, narrates THE TRUEST PLEASURE--the story of their life together on her father's farm in the western North Carolina mountains. They have a lot in common--love of the land and fathers who fought in the Civil...

A Bigamist's Daughter

Author	Alice McDermott
ISBN	0747568251

I've read a few later Alice McDermott books, ones that centre more around Irish-American families, and while I can't say I adored them, they certainly struck me more than this book, one of her first, if not her very first, novels. A Bigamist's Daughter, well, I just can't quite figure out what this book...

An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

Author	Terry Tempest Williams
ISBN	0679752560

Williams often writes about things I care quite a bit about: Utah's natural beauty and/or quirky culture; environmental activism; birds; mythology; traveling; Edward Abbey; water & hiking & animals in the wild. She writes about the trails I walk on, the mountains I climb, the rivers I traverse....

A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols

Author	Winston S. Churchill
ISBN	0880294264

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Рождение Британии (Автор: Черчилль Уинстон...