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 | Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
"Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new tributary to a tributary to a tributary of the Amazon, nothing of importance was achieved." Not...
Manufacturer: Marlboro Press
| $9.75
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 | Country Days
Alice Taylor's books have made her almost as beloved among Irish-Americans as St. Patrick himself. With nearly a million copies of her books in print internationally, she continues to be the most popular writer in Ireland today. Country Days, her n...
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
| $4.06 - $9.95
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 | Dressing Diana
Chronicles the metamorhosis of a frumpy pudgy sloane, via the intensive training of Vogue, to the fashionable trend setter of the 90's, and culminates in the extraordinary New York sale of her dresses.
Manufacturer: Welcome Rain Publishers
| $30.00 - $40.00
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 | A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
An "extraordinary biography" (New York Times Book Review) of a brilliant pair of adventurers. Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she...
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
| $11.00 - $19.95
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 | Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she neverthele...
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
| $5.74
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 | George III: A Personal History
In George III: A Personal History, British historian Christopher Hibbert reassesses the royal monarch George III (1738–1820). Rather than reaffirm George III’s reputation as “Mad King George,” Hibbert portrays him as not only a compe...
Manufacturer: Basic Books
| $9.94
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 | Isaac Newton (Lives and Legacies Series)
Quarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illiterate family to become one of the towering intellects of science. Now, in this fast-paced, colorful biogra...
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
| $1.51 - $21.95
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 | Richard The Lionheart: The Mighty Crusader
New in paper
In a biography as compelling and controversial as its subject, Richard I of England, comes bursting to vivid life. Richard's personality was as imposing as his legend, and his far-ranging adventures make fascinating reading. Travel ...
Manufacturer: Phoenix Press
| $7.35
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 | Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985
These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself t...
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
| $37.93
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