Tiger of the snows: The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest
7 best books like Tiger of the snows: The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest (Tenzing Norgay): The Princess and the Goblin, The Elephant Vanishes, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Crystal Horizon: Everest: The First Solo Ascent, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, My Inventions
The Princess and the Goblin
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0140367462 |
Published in 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is one of the first books in the modern fantasy genre. This book had tremendous and very visible influence on all the (now much more famous) authors that came after it.
It is of course very dated. It does not match the standards that fantasy have created...
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant...
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0141036192 |
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
Crystal Horizon: Everest: The First Solo Ascent
| Author | Reinhold Messner |
| ISBN | 0898865743 |
On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Mesner reached the summit of Everest alone and without the use of oxygem. His vivid account of this extraordinary achievement forms the core of "The Crystal Horizon." Messner describes with passion his journey through Tibet, a mysterious country of snow peaks, ruined...
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| ISBN | 0394756940 |
In Stockholm of 1980 or so a man is living in a tiny cold water flat. He writes reviews for a local newspaper of modest circulation. He is a refugee from war-torn Poland and, he says, the son of that Polish genius -- shot by a Nazi in the streets of Drohobycz Poland in 1942 -- Bruno Schulz. He is obsessed with...
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
| Author | Michael Taussig |
| ISBN | 0807841064 |
My aim in this book is to elicit the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. The devil is a stunningly apt symbol of the alienation experienced by peasants as they enter the ranks of the proletariat, and it is largely in terms of that...
| Author | Nikola Tesla |
| ISBN | 1599869942 |
This important title is the autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla appropriately titled his work on his life, My Inventions, as he was one of the most important inventors and scientists in history. The book touches on his life and career, his first inventions, discovering the magnetic field,...
