books about: archipelago

books about: archipelago

books:

Archipelago

The Great Weaver from Kashmir
Halldor Laxness

Archipelago Books, 2008

"Laxness brought the Icelandic novel out from the saga's shadow. . . . To read Laxness is also to understand why he haunts Iceland-he writes the unearthly prose of a poet cased in the perfection of a shell of plot, wit, and clarity."- Guardian "Laxness is a poet who writes at the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: He takes a ...

A Wildlife Guide to Chile: Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago

Sharon Chester

Princeton University Press, 2008

A welcome addition to the South American naturalist's library
The South American countries are characterised by a very high natural diversity coupled with a relative scarcity of biologists and field naturalists, the result of which is a paucity of popular literature which would enable the curious resident or visitor to easily ...

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener.
For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a ...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, Parts I - II

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

HarperCollins Publisher, 1974

Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Archipelago refers to many great ports scattered from the Bering Strait to Bosporus.There were thousands of small islands where people were transported for varying periods of time. In addition, there were transit prisons at Ust-Usa and portable confinements by ...

Tranquility
Attila Bartis

Archipelago Books, 2008

" Tranquility is a moving, emotionally complex, subtle, shocking novel..."-- Los Angeles Times Tranquility , the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and a portrait of the end of the Communist era. Reading it, ?we arrive at ourselves, at our own obsessions, in our own silence,? writes ...

The Waitress was New

Dominique Fabre

Archipelago Books, 2008

real, true and beautiful.
Pierre is a bartender, a sweet man who has almost reached the age at which he could retire. He loves what he does, it is what he lives for and how he breathes. This book humble, yet so triumphant and full of life at the same time! It is very real, no huge ups and ...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

Encyclopedic in Scope. Please Click on Links Below to My Unabridged-Version Reviews
Instead of repeating other reviewers, let's consider some details related to comparison of Nazi and Communist camps, Russian history, Soviet geopolitics, etc. Please read my detailed, annotated reviews of the three original, unabridged, sets of volumes. Click on: ...

Zanzibar & the Swahili Coast: Travelling the Zanzibar Archipelago and Tanzania?s Northeastern & Southeastern ...
Mary Fitzpatrick

Lonely Planet, 2008

Zanzibar: the name alone evokes visions of Arabian architecture, heavenly beaches and exotic, spice-filled markets. So does it live up to the fantasy? You betcha ? and this guide will help make it your reality. Complete coverage of Zanzibar ? relax on picture-perfect beaches or wander through Stone Town's narrow, cobbled streets ...

Archipelago: Portraits of Life in the World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary

David Liittschwager, Susan Middleton

National Geographic, 2005

5 for the Book, 3 for the Shipping
Like the other reviewer, my book was improperly shipped, this time in a box too large so it sloshed around on its journey, getting dinged in the process. However, the book itself is magnificent. It is a gorgeous, comprehensive collection of images detailing the ...

The Mute Objects of Expression
Francis Ponge

Archipelago Books, 2006

In Mute Objects of Expression , Francis Ponge proclaims his goal: to accept the challenge that things--objects-offer to language. These objects and scenes are perceived with unique Pongean art and humor in this volume centering on the unoccupied southern Loire countryside, where his family lived from 1940 to 1943. Because of wartime shortages, ...

Yalo (Rainmaker Translations)

Elias Khoury

Archipelago Books, 2008

Reminiscent of Camus
Khoury's character, Yalo/Daniel in the novel Yalo is reminiscent of the young man, Meursault, in Camus' The Stranger. Is what Yalo telling us reality or his reality? What's real and what isn't? Yalo does not begin as a "crazed person" as described by one reviewer. He, ...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 I-II

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Harper & Row, 1973

If It Sounds Too Good to be True, It Probably Is!
Gulag Archipelago is the award winning expose that shocked the world with its revelations about the true nature of life in the, "worker's paradise," a.k.a, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) The author, a once dedicated Communist himself, shows how ...

The Malay Archipelago
Alfred Russell Wallace

Cosimo Classics, 2007

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

Julio Cortazar

Archipelago Books, 2007

Fantastic Voyage
There are explorations that take us to new worlds, and the explorers come back ready to tell us of all the strange people and artifacts they saw. There is also the exploration of a familiar world in a new way, and that this can be just as enlightening, and ...

Lenz
George Buchner, Johann Friedrich Oberlin, ...

Archipelago Books, 2004

Lenz , Georg Bchner's visionary exploration of an 18th century playwright's descent into madness, grew in part out of Alsatian pastor Oberlin's journal, which is translated here in its entirety for the first time. Lenz is a dispassionate account on the nervous system of a schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever written from the ...