Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-03-04
Dewey code: 615
RRP: £6.99
Price: £21.95
Review The Grasmere Journals / Oxford Paperbacks:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1972-04-20
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: £3.50
Review Birdless Summer (China: Autobiography, History) / Triad Books:
Publication date: 1999-11-10
RRP: £14.95
Price: £12.24
Review A New Voyage Round the World: The Journal of an English Buccanneer / hummingbird press:
Creator: Merlin Holland
Publication date: 2003-04-07
RRP: £18.99
Price: £14.00
Review Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde / Fourth Estate Ltd:
Creator: Raymond Rosenthal
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1992-02-27
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.75
Review Conversations / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-07-16
Dewey code: 942.370092
Price: £10.95
Review Tangye / Book Guild Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-11-08
Price: £7.99
Review The Right Stuff (Picador Books) / Picador:Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979-the year the book appeared-Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing-willing?-delighted!-to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero. " Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne. Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). [+]The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. -Patrick O'Kelley.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1986-09-25
Price: £4.99
Review Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publication date: 1995-10-13
Price: £15.99
Review "Daily Telegraph" Book of Obituaries: A Celebration of Eccentric Lives / Macmillan:
Creator: J.D. Duff
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1983-12
Dewey code: 891.733
Price: £4.99
Review A Russian Schoolboy (World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Creator: Derek Jameson
Publication date: 1989-04
RRP: £14.95
Price: £14.95
Review The Emperor's Guest: Diary of a British Prisoner of War of the Japanese in Indonesia / Oleander Press:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1989-07-01
Dewey code: 920.037
RRP: £15.95
Price: £12.53
Review Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 (Loeb classical library) / Loeb:
Creator: Edward Fenton
Publication date: 1998-06-01
RRP: £18.99
Price: £13.14
Review The Diaries of John Dee / Day Books:
Publication date: 1990-07-01
Dewey code: 610.73092
Price: £25.95
Review Ever Yours (Loeb Classical Library) / Harvard University Press:
Price: £8.80
Review The Moon's a Balloon / Listen for Pleasure:
Edition: 1st Shambhala Ed., 150th Anniversary Ed
Publication date: 2004-03-05
Dewey code: 818.303
Price: £18.99
Review Walden: Or, Life in the Woods / Shambhala Publications Inc:
Creator: Kathleen Raine
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1981-11-02
Dewey code: 821.8
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99
Review The Celtic Twilight / Colin Smythe Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-12-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.74
Review My American Century / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Authors
- Jean-Francois Champollion
Price: £10.99
Review Egyptian Diaries: How One Man Solved the Mysteries of the Nile / Gibson Square Books Ltd:
Authors
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Pietro Bembo
Publication date: 1987-09-21
Price: £15.00
Review The Prettiest Love Letters in the World: The Letters Between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Bembo, 1503-1519 / The Harvill Press:
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