Product Description
Meet Nikki Nasco: 40, single, obsessive, neurotic, unorthodox and unexpectedly fun. She is having a very normal day. She goes to the gym, she calls her mother, and she stresses out about not having her Top Five desert island CD s selected.
Meet Amber Lawson: 35, lesbian, driven, aerobics instructor. She too is having a very normal day. She attends law school, teaches Boot Camp and receives a phone call from Nikki, the purpose of which she never fully understands, but knows there is a deserted island involved.
And then the darkness comes...
In a world where coffee is no longer available, the only television shows are reality TV re-runs, and the animals are talking back, Nikki, Amber and a singing Coyote in a do-rag are out to restore the light (and hopefully prevent Nikki s eyes from being stolen by an Irish midget).
Normal is missing. Reward.
Del Sesto pays homage to Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore in this clever, insightful, and flat-out hilarious novel while maintaining an entirely original point of view, making All Encompassing Trip one of my favorite books of the year! Jen Lancaster, author of Bitter is the New Black
All Encompassing Trip is a trip! Imagine Kafka, Kerouac, and Douglas Adams on the road, and you ll get a feel for this completely original, witty, and wild book that s (thank goodness!) anything but normal. Del Sesto s prose sparkles. What a great debut. Lori Jakiela, author of Miss New York Has Everything
Customer Reviews:
A trip worth taking twice.......2007-10-11
I enjoyed this book on the first read, but the second read made it even more fun. As another reviewer pointed out it is easy not to get exactly what is going on at some points in the book. (I'm sure that is by design. I think the "reveal" was handled deftly.) The thing that keeps the pages turning, though, is Del Sesto's whipcrack prose. This book is loaded with many "Damn! I wish I'd written that!" lines. A few of those will carry you through any "lost" points until you reach familiar territory once again.
A warning is in order, however. I did find myself craving coffee a lot during the reading of this book.
an entertaining trip.......2007-08-02
What a trip...
The main character of this book, Nikki, wakes up one morning and the world is completely dark. Everything she touches disappears (well, except for the things that were on her bed while she slept) nobody can see her, she can't make coffee, and there is a (British) talking coyote on her front steps. This is how the book begins, and it only gets crazier from there.
Nikki is neurotic, intelligent and obsessive; yet she's completely adorable and has so much of each and every one of us within her. Her best friend Amber is a more down to earth and organized woman, who helps to balance Nikki's chaos and help them through their journey. Ultimately this book is about self discovery, but there are a lot of entertaining things that happen on the way to reaching that point. Nikki finds out at the start of the story that there are a series of tasks she needs to complete before her world can resume its normalcy. Part of the task is even figuring out what the tasks are, since Lefty, her talking coyote companion only sings segments of songs as hints. Nikki needs to decipher his messages and complete these tasks, all while staying one step ahead of Luke, the bad guy, who wants Nikki's eyeballs. Seriously.
I can't even begin to sum this book up accurately--you need to read it for yourself. I was giggling by the end of the first page, and I honestly didn't stop until the last page. It's creative, original and highly entertaining. I recommend it to any of you who enjoy something a little different...think Douglas Adams ("The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) meets Christopher Moore (highly satirical author) and you have Nicole Del Sesto
A fun and funky read from cover to cover........2007-07-09
The debut novel of California author Nicole Del Sesto, All Encompassing Trip is a fantastically bizarre and whimsical story about the literal breakdown of reality. Caught amid a world of darkness in which nothing is on television but reality TV rerun, animals are talking back, and simple coffee is beyond mortal reach, stressed-out forty something woman Nikki Nasco and driven aerobics instructor and lesbian Amber Lawson must join forces with a singing Coyote in a do-rag to bring back the light. Irreverent to the point of being quixotic, All Encompassing Trip evokes the wild and crazy atmosphere of a world where normal is Missing in Action. A fun and funky read from cover to cover.
Okay but not great.......2007-07-08
The book was okay. It wasn't as good as the description on the back made it sound like it would be. It took me at least halfway to even begin getting into it. It all finally made sense at the end, but I don't think a lot of people will be able to stick with it that long to find out what was going on.
Tremedously entertaining.......2007-06-14
This is such a fun and addicting book. Nikki goes on quite a ride on her quest to bring light back to the world. The three main characters are wonderful. My personal favorite is good old Lefty, the do-rag wearing coyote that sings clues throughout the journey. Close on their heels is a seven and half foot Rastafarian with his evil leprechaun henchman and a wise cracking crow. Along with the leprechaun is a motley crew of some of the craziest characters ever put on paper, yet somehow a little too similar to someone you've run into at one time or another.
The book is so much fun it should come with a warning. You may not be able to stop reading it once you start it.
Book Description
Growing up in Trafford, Pennsylvaniahometown of The Love Boats Lauren TewesJakiela had dreams of becoming famous and making it big. Inspired by her childhood idol, Marlo Thomas in That Girl, she always wanted to move to New York City and away from the small town where her cantankerous father worked in the steel mills. When she sees an ad from an airline company promising a home base in the Big Apple and a jet-setting lifestyle all over the world, she quickly signs up. But she learns that being a flight attendant is far from glamorous. Instead of Paris layovers in a pillbox hat and white gloves, she gets Frankfurt in a one-size-fits-all polyester uniform and apron. When her father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she returns to Trafford only to discover that the writing career and life she always wanted were right there at homeand that the grass in her own backyard might just be greener than the one on TV.
Customer Reviews:
It's about the in-betweens.......2007-06-07
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. It is a true and it is those moments that slip by to a common eye, but it is those small, exact moments that Lori Jakiela captures vividly and honestly in this book. .
Whether it be it riding the bus to school with a steel town kid who banked his Hollywood dream on being an extra in Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" or in the simple exchange between herself and her neighbor while leaving New York City for an ailing father back in Trafford, Pa, Jakiela uses these small moments to capture the bigger truth. This is a book everyone to which everyone can relate.
-More sad than comedic.......2007-06-01
This well-written litte memoir was an enjoyable read. Lori's childhood with her parents in the Pittsburgh area, visited by a drug-addicted aunt of a nun and ruled by Polish-Catholic norms molded this young woman to what many girls back in the 1960s dreamed of: independence, New York and a boyfriend with clean, long hair. Although she can say she lived her dream, her dream wasn't all what she thought it was until she returned to her hometown after her dad's death, got married, had kids and wrote her memoirs.
The airline years were barely half the book, most of her stories were about her childhood, then teenaged years, college and the years as a small-town writer hanging out with unambitious men on drugs. She didn't sound very happy for many years, she always kept that elusive dream in the back of her head of making it big as a writer in New York. It was answering a Delta airlines ad that brought her to New York, but the high-flying years were never that exciting as she thought they would be.
I enjoyed this book as I could relate to many episodes: the worthless boyfriends, the drinking, the dreams of New York and other exotic places, the wonderings of weird family members who always drop in when you least want them to. But her life seemed to drag a bit after her college years and I'm glad that in the end all worked out afterall, and she no longer yearned for New York when her happiness came to her later back in western Pennsylvania.
I'm glad she wrote this book, if only to give other young women hope that there's always more outside of one's hometown, but that one's hometown is always open to you. "You can't go back home" in this case didn't ring true.
It's Lonely in the Air.......2007-03-20
The sometimes hilarious, sometimes not memoir of a woman who has spent much of her young life as a flight attendant. Many people envy the life of a flight attendant, thinking they have the best of all worlds, getting to stop off in New York, London, Paris, etc. etc. all in one day. This behind-the-scenes look reveals what those lonely flights are really like, what it's like to never get to see the cities that are just outside your door each day, what it's like to sign up for a job that you think is going to show you everything and bring loads of excitement, but then doesn't.
-- Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens
Surprising.......2006-12-16
After reading a few chapters of this book, I was a little disappointed. "Miss New York Has Everything" is promoted as the story of a small-town girl who becomes a flight attendant in order to live in New York--but the first half of the book is devoted to Jakiela's childhood and upbringing in a quirky American family in Trafford, Pennsylvania. Don't get me wrong: there's nothing wrong with the first part. It's funny and quite lovely. It's just not what I expected when I bought the book.
I had to wait approximately 130 pages for Jakiela to move to New York, where she finds a life that's absolutely lacking in the glamour she envisioned while watching Marlo Thomas in "That Girl." While traveling around the world, sleeping in horrible hotels, cleaning after rude passengers or looking for love in all the wrong places, Jakiela is someone you like, someone you find yourself rooting for. The end of the book was touching and moving without ever being maudlin. And it's nice to know that even though she no longer lives here, Lori Jakiela still loves New York as much as I do.
Surprising How GOOD this Read is..........2006-12-11
Do you ever pick up a book and know a few pages into it that you are reading something special? I didn't know where the story was going, which is befitting a good story-- but I could relate to everything that happens in this endearing memoir. It is a book about life's dreams and disappointments, reality, relationships, family and growing up ("coming of age"). Lori Jakiela has written this book with grace and humor and an embarrassingly honest demeaner.
Book Description
A handsome, well-bred poet, playwright, actor, and partygoer, Andr was the dilettante spymaster for Britain with a vast Loyalist network. Walsh brings Andr and his role in American history to light in a book that readers of history will embrace.
Customer Reviews:
JUST DESERTS.......2006-03-09
The negative perspective of Major Andre is supported by plenty of historical literature, especially the biographies of Benedict Arnold. Andre loathed Americans and delighted in the murder of American prisoners; he looted Benjamin Franklin's house when the British occupied Philadelphia and took time during the occupation to put on a scurrilous pageant utilizing local prostitutes. It is interesting that the incriminating papers were not exactly found in his boot, but within his sock,
where he had kept them several days (!). The militiamen reduced this haughty twit to his birthday suit before finding them.
Hanged once, assassinated once..........2005-03-08
Long a student of American History and a teacher of it, I am always interested in alternative perspectives on significant events. This book, however, is mere character assassination disguised as historical fact. I have read every available source on the events leading up to and the trial/execution of Major John Andre, and by all accounts, he was an honorable man. Walsh attempts to paint Andre as a narcissistic, self-serving social climber, when according to those who were there (his enemies, no less), he was a genuinely sincere man who was merely out of his league. He was not a spy, and could not have been expected to have behaved as one. That he held his composure so well in the days leading up to his death speaks volumes as to his character. A truly narcissistic man would have done almost anything to save himself. Andre did nothing other than to preserve his sense of honor and dignity. Where did Walsh get his ideas? I read the same material, and I have no idea...
Washington hung young Major Andre........2003-11-21
First let me tell you I am not a fan of the narrative approach in history because it gives the author some leeway in slanting history. I think Walsh does a good job with the available material to make this narrative work in the executuon of John Andre. What I disagreed with in this book was Walsh making Andre appear as a calculating arrogant person, when in reality he was out of his element as a spy. After reading the book, I came away with a good impression of Major Andre, not the one the author was trying to convey.
I learned from this book how a brave man met his end with dignity. I also learned the severity of Arnold's treason, and why he should have dangled from the rope, rather than Andre.
Washington came across as a distant figure trying to save the young Republic. The three captors of Andre came across as patriotic men trying to perform their job. It is sad that in war, some brace, decent men have to die doing their duty. Andre was just such a person. He may have been an inept spy, but he was a decent soldier.
Walsh Does Not Like Andre.......2002-05-08
John Walsh does not like Major Andre. This is what you come away with after reading Walsh's book. Walsh sees Andre as some master manipulator. This is at odds with the fact that Andre couldn't amanipulate his way out of capture despite having a legitamate pass from Gen. Arnold. All Andre had to do was to show the pass and say nothing. Instead Andre takes a guess at his captor's allegiance and blurts out his own. Is this the work of a master manipulator?
Walsh's section on the trial is informative.
I think it speaks volumes about the author that on page 69 of his work he adds a footnote informing the reader that the lower arm of the Hudson River has regular tides as it is part of the sea. "This fact and its bearing on the Andre story has escaped almost all previous writers. None dwell on it." On one hand I am glad that Walsh mentions the point becuase it does make clearer why two men were needed to row a boat out to the Vulture. On the other hand it seems as if he stops his story to take a bow. It left me a little confused.
I suggest instead J.T. Flexnor's "The Traitor and the Spy".
Walsh Does Not Like Andre.......2002-05-08
John Walsh does not like Major Andre. This is what you come away with after reading Walsh's book. Walsh sees Andre as some master manipulator. This is at odds with the fact that Andre couldn't amanipulate his way out of capture despite having a legitamate pass from Gen. Arnold. All Andre had to do was to show the pass and say nothing. Instead Andre takes a guess at his captor's allegiance and blurts out his own. Is this the work of a master manipulator?
Walsh's section on the trial is informative.
I think it speaks volumes about the author that on page 69 of his work he adds a footnote informing the reader that the lower arm of the Hudson River has regular tides as it is part of the sea. "This fact and its bearing on the Andre story has escaped almost all previous writers. None dwell on it." On one hand I am glad that Walsh mentions the point becuase it does make clearer why two men were needed to row a boat out to the Vulture. On the other hand it seems as if he stops his story to take a bow. It left me a little confused.
I suggest instead J.T. Flexnor's "The Traitor and the Spy".
Customer Reviews:
Hitler would be pleased..........2007-03-11
This is what happens when a group of people decide to get together and implement Hitlerian tactics to impose upon others their own demented views. Because they aren't accepted by society, they coerce society into acceptance through propaganistic tactics. At its core, this book is evil and twisted. When all is said and done people will probably hate gays more when the truth finally surfaces about this book and people begin to realize they've been manipulated and lied to. The homosexual movement is in its honeymoon right now enjoying its iron fisted approach to acceptance. But when all is said and done the homosexual fantasy will be exposed for what it is.
Marshall Kirk.......2006-08-11
I would like to say thank you to everyone who purchased and got something out of "After the Ball." Marshall Kirk was my uncle. I say "was" because he passed away a year ago. I'm glad his legacy will live on in this book and all of the genealogy research he'd done over the years.
Prophetic book with a message for today.......2001-05-09
This book is a look at how gay activism can become more pragmatic and realistic. While "shock" tactics may be fun and a wonderful outlet for our pent up emotions (and may even have their place), this book shows why they are not effective at changing society or government. The first part of this book shows how to change society, using the same propaganda that is unfortunately being used against us by ignorant ministers and politicans whose lies and propaganda are absorbed faster than truth and reason by our society. The second half of the book explains how, despite the wonder and goodness of much of the gay community, some maladaptive behaviors have appeared in the gay community (primarily due to its persecution from less evolved members of our society) and how we can combat them to make our community even better and more nurturing. I don't agree with every conclusion the author makes, but it is a truly sobering message for gays and lesbians today; work with the system as it is or be second class citizens forever.
This book pioneered the movement's shift toward pragmatism.......1999-11-19
Although its tone is sometimes too harsh and its generalizations too sweeping, AFTER THE BALL remains a prescient landmark in the American gay rights movement. The book recast the debate about effective tactics among gay activists, and laid the foundation stone for organizations such as GLAAD. The book's logic for gays is compelling, if uncomfortable: either face the unvarnished realities of American bigotry, and attack them aggressively at their psychological roots, or else fail to win a secure place in society. Ever since it made waves inside and outside the gay community, this polemic has been condemned by both the gay left wing and the religious right wing -- so it must be doing something right for the rest of us.
Love it or loathe it, you won't be indifferent.......1999-08-24
Since time out of mind, gays have been the hapless victims of the hateful propaganda of a society almost uniformly arrayed against them. This 1989 book suggested ways in which the gay community could (a) organize itself and (b) throw those very propaganda techniques -- lies, if you will -- back in homohaters' faces. In 1999, the gay commmunity is doing just that. Naturally, the religious and political right are enraged. A work of fundamental -- tho' easily missed -- sociohistorical significance.
Book Description
This concise, richly illustrated biography of the African elephant--from ancient Egypt to the most recent discoveries about elephant society and communication--is also a passionate plea to preserve the species.
The relationship between elephant and man has been dominated by brutality and persecution. Centuries of exportation, unabated hunting for ivory, and shrinking habitat have left only five countries in Africa with sizeable elephant herds. Corrupt governments and lawless poachers are currently flouting what little protection the elephant has.
What will be the African elephant's destiny? Will it soon be relegated to zoos and nature preserves? Martin Meredith lays out the history of this majestic animal from the Egyptian pharaohs' first ivory expeditions 2500 years ago to today, and explores the elephant's role in literature and popular culture. He shares recent extraordinary discoveries about the elephant's ability to communicate, its sophisticated family and community structure, and the ways--rare in the animal world--in which elephants show compassion and loyalty to each other. Meredith also illuminates how the legacy of colonialism in Africa--and unrelenting poverty, disease, and civil war--affects the elephant's fate. Can Africa find a way to preserve its most enduring symbol of freedom? Readers of national bestsellers including Silent Thunder, Elephant Memories, and When Elephants Weep will want to read this urgent, illuminating book.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful, heartbreaking, and compelling.......2007-07-21
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the fate of endangered wildlife, not just elephants. And to anyone interested in Africa, for it is the story of much more than the elephant. Meredith has written a beautiful, captivating, and often heartbreaking and enraging account of the African elephant's encounter with mankind, and how the species has suffered from man's insatiable greed, in particular for the ivory of this beautiful animal. There is also an excellent account of efforts to reverse the catastrophic decline in the African elephant population, due to the ivory trade.
As readable as a fine novel, this book also offers a great introduction to the unique nature of the elephant--the largest land mammal, and yet one of the most intelligent, sensitive, and emotional. If you do not know much about elephants, you will never look at an elephant the same way again.
If only it was more about the elephants themselves........2005-04-26
As other reviewers have pointed out, most of this book is not about the elephants themselves. I knew this going in, but as I enjoyed looking at history from the perspective of salt (Mark Kurlansky, "Salt"), I was hoping I would enjoy "Elephant Destiny" more than I did. The chapters on the elephants are toward the end (chapters 18-22), and are fascinating: it would be hard for them not to be, the social life of elephants is so interesting. For those of you who are not going to read this book, or parts of it, the two main researchers into elephant behavior are apparently Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole, and Katy Payne has a book on elephant communication. Meredith mentions elephants swimming across rivers. Fossils of pygmy elephants have been found on some Asian islands, and it is speculated their ancestors actually swam to the islands.
PACHYDERMS ARE PRECIOUS..........2004-06-28
This is a wonderful, well written, illustrated book about elephants and their role throughout history, as well as their present state in the world. I confess, I did not know much about elephants before reading this book. I now feel I know something about them, and what I have discovered is fascinating. I did not realize how complex and intelligent these magnificent creatures are, nor how dangerously close to extinction they have become. It would, indeed, be tragic were that to happen, for elephants are sociable, sentient, and intelligent.
The author takes the reader on a tour throughout history, describing the elephant's interaction with humanity and its role in the affairs of mankind and its impact on the environment. The book traces the influence of the elephant and the various uses to which mankind has put this great creature. From being used as a conveyance in times of war, to being paraded as an object of wonder and curiosity, to being hunted down mercilessly for its ivory tusks, the elephant has had a somewhat checkered history in terms of its interaction with human beings.
The author also carefully relates the elephant's own social structure, which is a sophisticated and complex one. Their mating rituals, their family life, and their handling of death are all addressed by the author, who paints a picture of a multi-faceted and remarkable society of elephants. It is only in the twentieth century that its complexity has begun to be understood by man. It is hoped that this is not a case of too little, too late.
Unfortunately for the elephant, however, its positive qualities have taken a backseat to its value as a commodity. Elephant tusks may eventually bring about the demise of the entire species, if the world does not take heed. A portion of this book is devoted to the ivory wars that have decimated the great elephant herds of Africa, turning elephants into an endangered species. Were elephants to be driven to extinction by pure, unadulterated greed, it truly would be tragic. This book effectively drives that point home.
The Romance of the Elephant.......2003-11-16
The subtitle is slightly misleading. This book is definitely a biography of the African elephant, but not from the point of view of the elephant, but of man's relationship with the African elephant. So note. This means that the science of the elephant is not the main thrust of this book, in fact, the biology, zoology, and ecology of the elephant is maybe a fourth of this book. So if you are looking solely for science, this book will disappoint you.
Bottom line first: If you are a fan of the elephant, or if this is your first book on the elephant, than this is a good book. If you know a lot about the science of the elephant, and want to know more about the culture of the elephant, this is a good start. Those wanting more science or more about the craft of ivory art, look else where.
Now, that is it, but read on for more details, if you like. This book is -rather- the history of man's relationship with the African elephant. It's quite romantic, tragic, and greedy at the same time. Meredith presents us with many facets of the elephant. From it's mythology in the ancient world, symbolizing both wisdom, and power. To the greed of the ivory trade which has happened several times in the past and has almost lead to the extinction of the elephant each time. There are plenty of color pictures showing the elephant as well as some nice illustrations peppered throughout the book.
So it starts right away with ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. And just how the elephants were used in these societies. Mostly for war, and for ivory. So, we see the history of elephant use in wars, from Alexanders first encounter with them, to Carthage's valiant attempt to overthrow Rome.
Meredith has almost captured the romance and the allure of Africa, from a colonial European viewpoint. Here, we are introduced to fabled lands of Punt, of Zanzibar. He even shows us the ties between the elephant and the Arabian nights. There are plenty of stories of the hunt, and of legendary hunters and their big adventures which included not only hunting elephants, but discovering such places as the source of the Nile.
There are some exciting passages of just how the elephant was hunted. From hunters that would to hang by an elephant tail, and bring it down, to spear hunters, to eventually gunmen.
Now, I say, from a colonial European viewpoint, because the ivory trade is intimately tied to both gold and slavery, and Meredith isn't shy to report these things too. The terrible greed is presented with some really vivid stories. One of them is about Arab merchants killing women's babeis to help the women better carry the ivory.
Throughout all the mayhem, Meredith shows the elephant as a very intelligent, gentle, and dare I say wise being. The stories are quite heartbreaking. Hunters doing mortal wound experiments finally notices the down elephant tearing, and puts it out of its misery. A calf cries in help after being stuck in a hunters trap. It's family tries to pull it out, but is scared away by hunters. Later, another troop comes, and the calf is adopted. Siblings knotting their tusks in intimate family bonding. In some ways, elephant families are more intimate than human ones.
Later chapters, present the science of the elephant. And since I'm a science fan, I found these chapters the most interesting. Meredith points out the differences between African savannah and forest elephants, and that of Indian elephants. He also writes about how elephants communicate, and their mating behaviors. But, by far the most interesting chapter in the entire book had to do with death. It is speculated that elephants 'know' of death, just as much as we do. They seem to grieve. They bury their dead. The look after the bones of their ancestors. In one story, an elephant breaks into a compound, retrieves the bones of a downed elephant, and places them back at the site where the downed elephant was shot.
Now let's get on with the negatives. Meredith focuses too much on the destruction of the elephant. Instead of having one chapter about how elephants were decimated by colonial europeans, we have several chapters each focusing on a particular region of Africa. And for each chapter, the story is much the same: an explorer finds a route into a region, a trade route is established, tusks, slaves, gold, rubber come out of the region.
It is a sad tale, and the story deserves it space, but I would rather they had focused on other things. For instance, he could have discussed more about the luxury of ivory. What makes it so alluring for people. We could have pictures of some of the items he talks about, like the chyrselephantine that are statues made of ivory and gold. With people more sympathetic to the elephant, it is hardly understandable today why anyone would want to kill an elephant to make a trinket.
Also, there are many questions unanswered that I wish Meredith will address in his next edition. What was man's pre-historical relationship with the elephant? Native Africans seemed to have lived with the elephant peacefully, it was the outsiders and ancient cultures that had a thirst for elephants. Meredith please speculate! Also, Elephants can have a powerful influence on the environment, turning jungles into savannahs. Could it be that the elephant had some influence on the expanding Sahara desert?
This is the biography of the African elephant, but I would have loved to have known the fate of Indian elephants. What about the species of elephants that lived on Greece which were only 3 feet high?
Finally, the illustrations, and pictures were a nice edition, but some key photos/drawings should be added to the next edition. In particular, is the comparison of the African savannah elephant to the African forest elephant to the Indian elephant, comparing the visible differences between these three species.
So, in summary, this book is a broad look at man's relationship with the African elephant. There are some parts that are too detailed, but Meredith overall does a fine job. He shows us just how atrocious, cruel, and mean Man's behavior has been, in stark contrast to the wise, compassionate, and graceful behavior of the Elephant.
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- And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-
- Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
- Autobiography of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
- Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
- Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus
- Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience
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