The Night Country
9 best books like The Night Country (Loren Eiseley): Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Bastard Out of Carolina, Middle Passage, Metaphors We Live By, Collected Poems, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Built to Last, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0345326490 |
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0061129763 |
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension...
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0452287057 |
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright,...
| Author | Charles R. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0684855887 |
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary...
| Author | George Lakoff |
| ISBN | 0226468011 |
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless...
| Author | Robert Hayden |
| ISBN | 0871401592 |
Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World...
| Author | Anthony Berkeley |
| ISBN | 0440168449 |
The Hook - After being quite delighted with my first Anthony Berkeley classic mystery, Trial and Error, I wondered if another would be as entertaining. Read on.
The Line - ”To make no bones about it, the Bendixes had apparently succeeded in achieving that eighth wonder of the modern world,...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0547342403 |
This new book—inspired by three classic, award-winning books—reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created. Macaulay has revised texts based on new research, created gorgeous new drawings, in some cases wholly re-imagined scenes...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 1635579988 |
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
