Travel related books
First published in the early twentieth century shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin has been translated by Natasha Randall and republished in 2006. We is considered a precursor to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Fourand has a feeling similar to Ray Bradbury's Fa
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It seemed very far fetched to me that a country or a person would try to subvert an entire religion. It seemed even less possible to me that anyone could hate the thought that a God exists, so much that he would devote his entire life to subverting the Catholic Church. Surely this book must be a
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Recommended by a friend in my graduate program in Portland, Ryszard Kapuscinski's Imperium stands apart as an amazing piece of journalistic history of the former Soviet Union. For those interested in the realities of the different republics of the Soviet Union from the late 1930s to the early 19
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Scarecrow in Gray, Barry D. Yelton, 2006, ISBN 9780595401857 Francis Yelton (actual ancestor of the author) is a reluctant participant in the last months of the Civil War. He would much rather stay on his North Carolina farm, but, he also does not want to be known as the 19th Century equivalent o
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