Rin Tin Tin

SUSAN ORLEAN

Penguin/Random House

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup : My Encounters with Extraordinary People

Biographies & Memoirs

Random House]

The story of orchid thief and obsessive, John Laroche, and the bizarre world of the orchid fanciers of Florida. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders and showmen, their rivalries, vendettas and crimes, smuggling, thefts and worse provide the backdrop to an exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector.

Orchid Thief

William Heinemann Ltd(england

Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up

Business & Money

Industries

William Heinemann, Ltd.

The Orchid Thief

Regional U.S.

Bt Bound

My Kind of Place

Travel

Travel Writing

A New York Times Bestselling Author Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in a uniquely witty and sophisticated travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois.

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories From A Woman Who's Been Everywhere

Thorndike Press

From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin's improbable introduction to Hollywood leads to the dog's first blockbuster film and over time, the many radio programs, movies, and television shows that follow. The canine hero's legacy is cemented by Duncan and a small group of others who devote their lives to keeping him and his descendants alive. At its heart, Rin Tin Tin is a poignant exploration of the enduring bond between humans and animals. But it is also a richly textured history of twentieth-century entertainment and entrepreneurship and the changing role of dogs in the American family and society. Almost ten years in the making, Susan Orlean's first original book since The Orchid Thief is a tour de force of history, human interest, and masterful storytelling - the ultimate must-read for anyone who loves great dogs or great yarns.

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legacy

Atlantic Books UK

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup - My Encounters With Extraordinary People

Reference & Collections

Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and David Dabydeen (Guyana). While early studies of post-colonization literature focused on how revisions of historical works "write back" to the British empire, this study argues that trans-historical, cross-cultural dialogues also reveal the global complexity of eighteenth-century cultural forms (i.e. the periodical essay, travel narrative, pantomime, satirical engraving, and slave narrative). By transforming the generic form of their eighteenth-century sources, the African and Caribbean writers in this study strategically call attention to the modes of storytelling utilized by eighteenth-century writers Richard Steele, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, William Hogarth, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Ignatius Sancho, and subsequently expose how the encounters, exchanges, and acts of resistance taking place around the world influenced aesthetic experimentation in England. Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century is thus a reconsideration of eighteenth-century literature, art, and drama. However, because these engagements with British literature, art, and drama concurrently reflect twentieth-century encounters with neocolonial oppression, political violence, and racism, this study also proposes that engagements with the British eighteenth century double as inquiries into whether the modern world has progressed since the eighteenth century.

State By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America and Out of the Book Production. (Book and DVD Set)

Anthony Bourdain

Joshua Ferris

Susan Choi

PAUL GREENBERG

John Hodgman

Rick Moody

dagoberto-gilb

Daphne Beal

Alison Beghdel

Will Blythe

Heidi Suavits

Ecco

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