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The Anatomy of Restlessness
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Description: A collection of short stories, travel sketches, essays, articles and criticism.
ISBN: 0-330-35086-2
The Mezzanine
Author: Nicholson Baker
Description: The story of corporate life and one man’s lunch hour.
ISBN: 1862070989
Knulp
Author: Herman Hesse
Description: This book is about the life of a vagrant who ponders the meaning of life and realizes his life had a purpose
ISBN: 3518380710
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Author: Alice Walker
Description: A collection of poems about revolutionaries and lovers written for those committed to beauty and love even in face of the firing squad
ISBN: 0156421739
The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Description: A story of a father and son walking through a burned America. This story explores the depths of despair and savagery alongside the power of love and self sacrifice
ISBN: 0330447548
Moby Dick
Author: Hermann Melville
Description: A sweeping paean to man's search for meaning in the ocean
ISBN: 0199535728
Alone Across Antarctica
Author: Borge Ousland
Description: Travels in Antartica
ISBN: 82-994379-1-1
In Patagonia
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Description: An account of Bruce Chatwin’s travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast & his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road
ISBN: 0099769514
Clock This: My Life as an Inventor
Author: Trevor Bayliss
Description: The story of the man who invented clockwork radio
ISBN: 0747277567
Collected Fictions
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Description: An adventure into the Argentine writer's cavernous imagination. Thinking is doing!
ISBN: 0140286802