Karsten Heuer describes the experiences he and his wife shared as they migrated across the arctic with a herd of caribou. Includes anecdotes and photographs from their journey.
A biography of American novelist Carson McCullers, discussing her childhood in the South, her early success, her marriage, and her relationships with other celebrities.
Contains brief biographies of one hundred individuals whose accomplishments influenced the American way of life, including politicians, industrialists, crusaders, entertainers, and others; organized chronologically.
a tale of race and restless youth in the rural South
Hemphill, Paul
2000
Reveals why Little River, Alabama, experienced racial violence in 1997, including the murder of a black man, an attack on a white storekeeper, and the burning of two black churches by white teens.
A young woman raised on a commune in the Adirondack Mountains recalls her feelings and observations as she came of age during the 1960s in a community that was deliberating destroying convention and creating a new, "pagan" lifestyle to replace it.
Profiles a Polish tailor who survived four concentration camps, headed an operation of 450 tailors supervised by Himmler and Eichmann, and testified in war crimes trials about the atrocities and massacres against the Jews.
Presents nineteenth-century American author Henry David Thoreau's reflections on living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an ecological appendix.
