The White Nile
8 best books like The White Nile (Alan Moorehead): Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, Another Day of Life, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
| Author | Jason Stearns |
| ISBN | 1586489291 |
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply...
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
| Author | Martin Dugard |
| ISBN | 0767910745 |
What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account.
With the utterance of a single line--"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"--a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed...
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 0671447548 |
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with...
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy,...
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
| Author | Philip Connors |
| ISBN | 0061859362 |
A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks...
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679737324 |
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...
The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
A rare, insider’s look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research
Readers around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill O’Reilly’s...
