The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler
9 best books like The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (Giles Milton): Dragonlance Chronicles, Muddling through in Madagascar, 500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians, The Third Bear, Playing God, Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils, Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie, Scotland: A New History, Sister Light, Sister Dark
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0880386525 |
CONCEPT: A group of adventurers are chosen to help drive back the Evil from another world led by the Dark Queen.
MARKETING APPEAL: The DRAGONLANCE chronicles had the whole AD&D industry behind them; TSR used this tale as a marketing ploy, using their fans and game designers (to set up the...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0879513608 |
I enjoy Dervla Murphy’s travel books. They are not guides and not books that might inspire you to travel. Usually she travels by bicycle, but this was not possible in Madagascar. Instead, she travels by local minibus, and much of the book describes the incredibly cramped conditions and terrible...
500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians
| Author | Alvin M. Josephy Jr. |
| ISBN | 0517163942 |
Very interesting; does a good job of summarizing the "entirety" of The Indians of North America. It does have a rather left-wing bent to it (and I can be very left wing). It treats in almost all cases the Indians as if they are noble and beautiful and somehow more spiritual than the average human while describing...
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1892391988 |
Compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka, contemporary fantasist Jeff VanderMeer continues to amaze with this surreal, innovative, and absurdist gathering of award-winning short fiction. Exotic beasts and improbable travelers roam restlessly through these darkly diverting and finely...
| Author | Sarah Zettel |
| ISBN | 0446607584 |
Give women the vote, suffragists said, and we’ll have a kinder, gentler, more peaceful government. Women got the vote, and the country went to war with a fury never before seen.
What if an entire planet were populated by women, with the male of the species being an enfeebled post-menopausal...
What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about...
Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie
| Author | Mary Boykin Chesnut |
| ISBN | 0517182661 |
This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all the years of the war. Period photographs illustrate this you-are-there account of the daily lives and tribulations of all who suffered...
| Author | Michael Lynch |
| ISBN | 0712698930 |
From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country that has experienced centuries of dramatic change.
Michael...
Sister Light, Sister Dark
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0765343576 |
Then Great Alta plaited the left side of her hair, the golden side, and let in fall into the sinkhole of the night. And there she drew up the queen of shadows and set her upon the earth. Next she plaited the right side of her hair, the dark side, and with it caught the queen of light. And she set her next to the black...
