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Guadalcanal diary

2000
A reprint of the 1943 book in which news correspondent Richard Tregaskis provides an eyewitness account of the World War II battles on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942.

Spilling open

the art of becoming yourself
2000
A collection of art, poetry, and self-discovery by American woman Sabrina Ward Harrison from the age of eighteen to twenty-one.

Indian Time

a year of discovery with the native Americans of the Southwest
1993
Join the author as she tours Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1991 in an effort to learn more about her native American beliefs and customs.

Rebel without a crew; or, How a 23-year-old filmmaker with $7,000 became a Hollywood player

1995
Texas filmmaker Robert Rodriguez shares the story of how he completed the feature film "El Mariachi" with one camera, no crew, and a mere seven-thousand-dollar budget.

One man's wilderness

an Alaskan odyssey
1999
The author chronicles his experiences living in the wilderness of Alaska and recounts his day-to-day activities of building a log cabin and making what he needed from materials around him.

More readings from One man's wilderness

the journals of Richard L. Proenneke
2012
Diary entries chronicle Richard L. Proenneke's life living in the wilderness of Twin Lakes, Alaska from 1974 through 1980.

Traveling with Che Guevara

the making of a revolutionary
2004
Presents the diaries of Albert Granado describing his motorcycle journeys through South American in 1952 with Ernesto Guevara, later to be known as Che Guevara, and includes archival photographs and timeline.

The diary of Elizabeth Bacon Custer

on the plains with General Custer
2004
Presents the diary of the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, focusing on their life on the Great Plains from 1873 to 1876, when Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were clearing the way for the Northern Pacific Railroad and battling Native Americans.

No words to say goodbye

a young Jewish woman's journey from the Soviet Union into America--the extraordinary diaries of Raimonda Kopelnitsky
1994
Inspired by the diaries of Anne Frank, Raimonda records her journey to America via Europe with her family. Presents the transition from the nightmarish world of Soviet Russia to her bewilderments, challenges, and achievments in America.

The lost photographs of Captain Scott

unseen photographs from the legendary Antarctic Expedition
2011
Lost and recovered pictures taking by Captain Robert Falcon Scott during the last months of the tragic Terra Nova Expedition, in which his party reached the South Pole in January 1912, but the five man party died on the treacherous travel back home and it is believed that Scott died on March 29, 1912 on Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.

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