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Thomas Keneally–VICTIM OF THE AURORA
A change of pace for people with “Shackleton-mania.” If you’ve read everything you can find on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s trips to Antarctica, seen the traveling exhibit with Frank Hurley’s extraordinary...
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Philip Caputo–ACTS OF FAITH
“You have in one valley a village and you have in another valley another village and the people don’t even speak the same language. This makes it easy for the Arabs to give rewards to one tribe if they...
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Paul Torday–SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
“The prospect of introducing salmon to the wadis of the Hadramawt seems to me, quite frankly, risible…. The project is not only totally absurd and scientifically nonsensical, but if we allow our name...
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Paul Theroux–SIR VIDIA’S SHADOW
“I had admired his talent. After a while, I admired nothing else [about him]. Finally, I began to wonder about his talent.” What began as a mentoring relationship between established Trinidadian...
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Orhan Pamuk–SNOW
Notes: Orhan Pamuk was WINNER of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. “I am proud of the part of me that isn’t European. I’m proud of the things in me that the Europeans find childish, cruel, and...
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William Nothdurft–LOST DINOSAURS OF EGYPT
Captivating story of discoveries and losses. The search for dinosaur fossils amid sandstorms and desert heat is anything but dry in this lively story of the excavation in January, 2000, of a site in...
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Naguib Mahfouz–KARNAK CAFE
“In spite of all the wrong turns, [the country] was growing in power and prestige, always expanding and getting bigger. It was making goods of all kinds, from needles to rockets, and broadcasting a...
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John Marks–WAR TORN
“Cities revolving within cities, constantly arising and collapsing, the healthy giving way to the sick, the sick returning to health. And the people were like the cities, containing their own deaths,...
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James Stephenson–LANGUAGE OF THE LAND
The author raises more questions than he answers. James Stephenson’s memoir about the Hadzabe in Tanzania, one of the last tribes of hunter-gatherers, is fascinating, though not always in ways the...
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Frank Pope–DRAGON SEA
“Just as the moon lures the tides, the ocean tugs at a man’s mind.” In describing the excavation of a junk which sank off the north coast of Viet Nam in the mid-fifteenth century, Frank Pope focuses on...
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