Caroline Alexander, Author . Viking $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-03133-7
A contributor to the New Yorker, Granta, Condé Nast Traveler
and National Geographic, Alexander brings the past to life with travel narratives spanning continents and centuries. Alexander (The Endurance) again recreates a high seas voyage,...
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Caroline Alexander, Author Vintage Books USA $10.95 (158p) ISBN 978-0-679-73189-4
British wayfarer Kingsley's 1893 West African odyssey is retraced by a modern-day adventurer in an effort to juxtapose the less ``civilized'' past with new realities. ``Alexander may come up short in her desire to `make contact with the past,' but...
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Caroline Alexander, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-394-57455-4
In 1893 Mary Kingsley, then 30, ventured into what is now Gabon, West Africa, ``a region notorious for its deadly climate and diseases, its alarming wildlife, and its cannibals.'' The British wayfarer was enthralled and penned Travels in West Africa
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Caroline Alexander, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41901-3
In 1981, Alexander (The Way to Xanadu), a returning Rhodes scholar, tutored several (poor, black) Florida State football players in English, feeling an affinity for them despite differences of race, gender and class. The bulk of this book consists...
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Caroline Alexander, Author, W. E. How, Illustrator, Frank Hurley, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-017546-7
On their 1914 expedition to Antarctica, Sir Earnest Shackleton and the crew of his ship, the Endurance, spent 10 months stranded in ice ""like an almond in toffee""; after shifting ice-floes cracked the ship's hull, the crew spent nearly a year...
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Caroline Alexander, Author, Frank Hurley, Photographer Alfred A Knopf Inc $35 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-40403-0
The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas, has inspired at least three...
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Caroline Alexander. Viking, $32 (496p) ISBN 978-1-984-87923-3
In this soaring account, bestseller Alexander (The Endurance) spotlights a group of American airmen stationed in Burma who flew the “Hump” over the Himalayas to deliver supplies to Chinese allies during WWII. Franklin Roosevelt was committed to...
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