books about: departure

books about: departure

books:

Departure

Jill Ker Conway

Vintage, 1990

enjoyable read
The wonderful autobiography entitled, The Road From Coorain, written by Jill Ker Conway is a must-read! Her engaging and rich detail gives an enchanting description of the Australian life-style from a very unique perspective. Beginning in the 1930's, young Jill Ker ...

The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)

Timothy Egan

Vintage, 1991

Fabulous natural history of the Northwest
Mr. Egan is a superb writer. This collection of essays takes you through history and across the landscape of the NW. The chapter on Salmon stands with the best environmental eriting that I have encountered.

Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them (Vintage Departures ...
Kimberly Lisagor, Heather Hansen

Vintage, 2008

A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet. Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a destination long known for the stunning beauty of its ...

The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures)

Tom Bissell

Vintage, 2008

"Would you stop the car? I'd like your help beating my son."
This is a searing, honest, and yes, fair account of a young man's reconciliation with his father, against the backdrop of a return to Vietnam. The dialog Tom records is almost too good to be true, but it's coming out of his tape recorder, so there it is. The ...

The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile (Vintage Departures)

Patrick Symmes

Vintage, 2008

Necessary reading
This is a wonderful book that explores the historical and social background of the success of a communist regime on a island ninety miles from the U.S. The author reports extensively on the school that Castro attended, and interviews several of his classmates, but ...

French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew

Peter Mayle

Vintage, 2002

Peter Mayle
My son is very into the french language and culture and this book is excellent is filling in gaps that he does not get at school and through french movies and videos. Thank you.

Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park (Vintage Departures)

Marie Winn

Vintage, 1999

wonderful story
I live in Portland Oregon, and have large populations of birds in my back yard, so this was a fun read. Perhaps i will visit NYC someday, and i will bring my glasses! What a nice book!

Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi

Jonathan Raban

Vintage, 1998

miserable bastard, but he can write
Raban left his wife in England and went to live in the States a number of years ago. He's written a number of great books about America and this is his best. He remarried and lived in Seattle, but is now divorced again. You won't see too many photos of a smiling, happy ...

The Facts In The Case Of The Departure Of Miss Finch
Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli

Dark Horse, 2007

Come, come and hear of the strange and terrible tale of Miss Finch, an exacting woman befallen by mystery and abduction deep under the streets of London! New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivers another stunning hardcover graphic novel with longtime collaborator Michael Zulli (Creatures of the Night, The Sandman). This is the first ...

Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens

Ted Conover

Vintage, 1987

An often unseen vantage point
This is an important book, particularly in today's charged political climate. It is very easy to deal in absolutes when one deals with abstract ideas, but what Conover does well, is to humanize those ideas. While many speak of illegal imigration, Conover speaks of ...

Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean

Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery

Vintage, 1999

Compelling, insightful, and funny.
This is about as perfect as a book can be. I won't recap the concept; plenty of other reviewers have summed it up. But I want to express my unbounded admiration for this book. I would never have imagined that a set of letters between friends could make for fascinating, ...

The Departure (Animorphs, vol. 19)

K.A. Applegate

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1998

Definately the Best Cassie and In the Top Animorph category!
Wow! Iloved this Book! I think everyone was impressed because usually the Cassie books stink. This book is a turning point in the Animorph series. Cassie learns that she can't escape the war, but when she has to return, it will be even harder to fight . .

Journey To The Vanished City

Tudor Parfitt

Vintage, 2000

Africa Meets Israel: A True Story About a Lost Tribe
It should probably be no surprise that the two most peripatetic peoples in the ancient world, Jews and Africans, should sooner or later have encountered one another. Tudor Parfitt, a British academic, traces the origins of a Southern African tribe known as the ...

No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo

Redmond O'Hanlon

Vintage, 1998

The Only Way I'll Ever Get to The Congo
Another excellent book from Mr. O’Hanlon. I previously read Into the Heart of Borneo and In Trouble Again. This is just as good and just as important. I wondered at first –the start was so abrupt and desultory. But I was soon taken in by the exotic ...

Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2004

Interesting Collection of the Comings and Goings of People
It's just wonderful to see the comings and goings of ordinary people candidly portrayed by a photographer as skilled as Garry Winogrand. The photograghs date from the 1950s to the 1980s with most from the 1970s and 1980s. My how airports and styles have changed. ...