Fall 2000 Hardcover List
Edited by Laurele Riippa
Compiled by Lynn Andriani, Dena Croog, Robert Dahlin, Cindi DiMarzo, Charles Hix, Karole Riippa, and Bella Stander
-- 8/14/00
Travel Abroad
ABRAMS
Literary Trails: British Writers in Their Landscapes (Nov., $49.50) by Christina Hardyment identifies sites made famous in classic books. QPB selection.
BALLANTINE
Searching for Crus : A Journey Among the Last Real Islands (Jan., $TBA) by Thurston Clarke journeys to 19 islands around the world. Ad/promo.
BHB INT'L
London and South Africa (Sept., $75 each) by Gerald Hoberman.
Spectacular Sydney (Sept., $19.95) by Ken Duncan features the city hosting the 2000 Summer Olympics that begin on September 15.
BROADWAY BOOKS
In Tuscany (Oct., $35) by Frances Mayes with Edward Mayes, photos by Bob Krist, celebrates the Italian region's people, food, landscape and art. Ad/promo.
CHRONICLE BOOKS
Tuscany and Its Wines (Oct., $24.95) by Hugh Johnson specializes in wine and explores the region's geography and culture.
FLAMMARION
(dist. by Abbeville)
Living in Venice (Oct., $50) by Frederic Vitoux offers an insider's tour of the city.
HARPERCOLLINS
Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted (Feb., $24) by Annie Hawes. Two sisters travel to Liguria and fall in love with the region and its people. 50,000 first printing.
MILKWEED EDITIONS
Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary (Oct., $21.95) by Bill Holm explores whether islands encourage "eccentricity of grandeur" in humans as Darwin argued that they do. Advertising. Author tour.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE PRESS
Quest for Adventure (Oct., $35) by Sir Chris Bonington. A noted mountaineer profiles the 20 most remarkable expeditions of the 20th century.
Courting the Diamond Sow: Kayaking Tibet's Forbidden Tsangpo River (Jan., $26) by Wick Walker is a firsthand account of the journey that ended with the death of renowned white-water paddler Doug Gordon.
PAVILION
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Captain Corelli's Island: Cephallonia (Oct., $29.95) by Andy and Terry Harris. Inspired by Corelli's Mandolin, this heavily illustrated volume traverses the Greek island.
CLARKSON POTTER
A Trip to the Beach (Oct., $25) by Melinda Blanchard and Robert Blanchard recounts the misadventures of two Vermonters who opened a restaurant on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.
RUMINATOR BOOKS
Facing the Congo (Sept., $27) by Jeffrey Taylor tours the lush jungles and crocodile-infested waters of the Congo River. Advertising. Author tour.
SHERIDAN HOUSE
Letters from the Lost Soul: A Five Year Voyage of Discovery and Adventure (Sept., $29.95) by Bob Bitchin. A "very large, tatto d captain" and his crew explore islands of the South Seas, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
SIERRA CLUB BOOKS
Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey (Sept., $25) by Edward Kanze frames a road trip Down Under around the retelling of The Odyssey. Advertising.
STEERFORTH PRESS
House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood (Sept., $22) by Adina Hoffman. An American in East Jerusalem observes daily life. Author tour.
THAMES & HUDSON
The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland (Sept., $40) by Christopher Fitz-Simon, photos by Hugh Palmer, is the 11th volume in the popular series. Advertising. BOMC selection.
TRAVELERS' TALES
Take Me with You: A Round-the-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home (Sept., $24) by Brad Newsham chronicles the author's 100-day worldwide search for the perfect person to invite to America.
Travel U.S.A.
ABRAMS
The Hamptons: Life Behind the Hedges (Sept., $39.95) by Susan Meisel and Ellen Harris offers an insider's view of homes, gardens and scenic wonders. Country Homes and Gardens Book Club and Architects and Designers Book Service selections. Author appearances.
Hearst Castle: Biography of a Country House (Nov., $49.50) by Victoria Kastner chronicles the story of William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon, Calif., castle. Advertising. Author tour.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE PRESS
Yonder: A Place in Montana (Sept., $25) by John Hemingway. The natural history and travel writer probes the background of "America's last best place."
Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest (Nov., $24) by Tom Miller.
THAMES & HUDSON
The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of the South (Sept., $40) by Bonnie Ramsey, photos by Dennis O'Kain, is the 10th title in the series. Advertising. Author appearances.
War & Military
BRASSEY'S
Hitler's Sky Warriors: German Paratroopers in Action, 1939-1945 (Sept., $32.95) by Christopher Ailsby is an illustrated history.
BURD STREET PRESS
Forget That You Have Been Hitler's Soldiers: A Youth's Service to the Reich (Nov., $24.95) by Hermann O. Pfrengle is a memoir of a Hitler Youth member.
CASSELL
(dist. by Sterling)
History of Warfare: War at Sea in the Ironclad Age (Sept., $29.95) by Richard Hill chronicles the navy's transition from sail to steam.
COMBINED PUBLISHING
Their War: German Combat Photographs from the Archives of Signal(Sept., $29.95) by Will Fowler shows WWII as it was seen in the German armed forces magazine. Military Book Club selection.
Fortress Against the Sun: The B-17 Flying Fortress in the Pacific (Oct., $34.95) by Gene Eric Salecker is devoted to the role played by the bomber in WWII against Japan.
FORDHAM UNIV. PRESS
"A Grand Terrible Dramma": From Gettysburg to Petersburg: The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed (Oct., $49.95), edited by Eric A. Campbell, presents the writings and drawings of a Massachusetts bugler.
GRUB STREET
(dist. by Seven Hills)
Air Battle Dunkirk: 26 May-3 June 1940 (Sept., $29.95) by Norman Franks recalls the great battle based on official records and the recollections of fighter pilots.
HISTOIRE & COLLECTIONS
(dist. by Combined)
Tiger I on the Western Front (Dec., $37.95) by Jean Restayn is an illustrated study of the German tank.
HOWELL PRESS
Mustang: A Gathering of Legends (Nov., $34.95) by Paul Coggan commemorates the 1999 gathering of North American P-51 Mustang aircraft.
MBI PUBLISHING
The American Soldier in World War II (Sept., $24.95) by Bernard C. Nalty relates the daily life of ordinary U.S. servicemen on the front lines.
Spyplane: The U-2 History (Nov., $21.95) by Norman Polmar examines the aircraft's development and operational past.
MILITARY ILLUSTRATED
(dist. by Combined)
Ranger: Behind Enemy Lines in Vietnam (Oct., $34.95) by Ron Field. This illustrated history features never-before-published eyewitness accounts.
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS
Reading Athena's Dance Card: Men Against Fire in Vietnam (Sept., $34.95) by Russell W. Glenn investigates the combat performance of American ground troops.
Stars in Khaki: Movie Actors in the Army and Air Services (Oct., $24.95) by James E. Wise Jr. and Paul W. Wilderson III profiles stars who served from WWI through the Vietnam War.
Flying Black Ponies: The Navy's Close Air Support Squadron in Vietnam (Oct., $32.95) by Kit Lavell, foreword by Stephen Coonts. A pilot chronicles the dangerous missions flown by his squadron in the Mekong delta.
W.W. NORTON
The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Land Warfare: An Illustrated World View (Oct., $75) by Byron Farwell. Ad/promo.
PEN & SWORD
(dist. by Combined)
Jock Lewes: Co-Founder of the SAS (Sept., $34.95) by John Lewes tells the story of the Oxford athlete who later developed many of the weapons and tactics of Britain's premier special forces unit.
PRESIDIO PRESS
Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal (Oct., $24.95) by Michael S. Smith tells how "Red Mike" Edson's forces held off the Japanese attack in August 1942.
Shadow Flights: America's Secret Air War Against the Soviet Union: A Cold War History (Nov., $27.95) by Curtis Peebles draws from previously top secret Soviet and U.S. documents to examine intelligence-gathering missions. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
PURDUE UNIV. PRESS
Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror (Oct., $24.95) by William L. Kleine-Ahlbran collects biographies of Holocaust survivors.
LYNNE RIENNER PUBLISHERS
Falcon Brigade: Combat and Command in Somalia and Haiti (Dec., $35) by Lawrence E. Casper. A retired army colonel narrates this harrowing account of the two UN operations.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS
To Hanoi and Back: The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973 (Nov., $27.95) by Wayne Thompson draws from 20 years' research in classified records.
STACKPOLE BOOKS
Lincoln's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac (Sept., $34.95) by Edward G. Longacre is the first of a two-volume survey on Union and Confederate casualties.
SUTTON PUBLISHING
USAAF: 1926-1945 (Oct., $34.95) by Martin W. Bowman is a pictorial history of the U.S. Army Air Force.
Military Campaigns of the 100 Years' War (Feb., $39.95) by Kelly DeVries studies the war that divided medieval Europe.
TAYLOR
Confederate Generals: Life Portraits (Sept., $29.95) by George Cantor profiles 20 Southern generals.
Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana (Feb., $24.95) by Thomas Ayres studies the conflict in the trans-Mississippi area.
TRIUMPH BOOKS
Ship of Miracles: 14,000 Lives and One Miraculous Voyage (Oct., $24.95) by Bill Gilbert tells of "the greatest rescue operation by a single ship in the history of mankind" during the Korean War. National media tour.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
Tom Taylor's Civil War (Nov., $29.95) by Albert Castel draws upon the letters and diary of a young Ohio lawyer who fought for the Union in the Georgia campaign. History Book Club selection.
WEATHERHILL
The Japanese Sword: The Soul of the Samurai (Sept., $40) by Gregory Irvine collects previously unpublished images of swords from London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
WHITE MANE BOOKS
Civil War Hostages: Hostage Taking in the Civil War (Sept., $29.95) by Webb Garrison Sr. No one was safe when commanders thought that they could bargain with the enemy. Advertising. Author tour.
Lincoln on God and Country (Oct., $19.95) by Gordon Leidner examines the president's very specific views.
Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay (Nov., $39.95) by Christopher T. George traces the abuses of Royal Navy raiding parties.
WILEY
Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier (Oct., $30) by James R. Arnold looks at the U.S. Second Cavalry.
Women's Studies
CAREER PRESS
Your Loving Sister (Oct., $15.99) by Laurel Hoffman collects quotations from such famous sisters as Mary Tyler Moore, Evita Peron and Princess Grace.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power (Dec., $25) by Benjamin DeMott argues for a return to feminism's original large-spirited vision of human variousness.
MONACELLI PRESS
In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World (Oct., $60) by Paolo Gianturco and Toby Tuttle documents female artisans around the globe.
NEW YORK UNIV. PRESS
Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution (Jan., $25.95) by Paula Kamen examines modern women's changing sexual roles and choices. Author tour.
RANDOM HOUSE
The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality (Sept., $24.95) by Colette Dowling challenges the belief that men are "naturally" stronger than women.
RIVERHEAD
Sex & Power (Sept., $24.95) by Susan Estrich evaluates American women from the bedroom to the boardroom. Ad/promo. Author tour.
RUNNING PRESS
Woman (Oct., $29.95), photos by the Magnum Cooperative Essays, looks at the important developmental stages of women; produced in cooperation with the Ms. Foundation for Women.
SEVEN STORIES PRESS
The Clitoral Truth: The World at Your Fingertips (Sept., $19.95) by Rebecca Chalker, illus. by Fish, studies women's genital anatomy and sexual responses. Author tour.
TEXAS A&M UNIV. PRESS
Finding Celia's Place (Oct., $29.95) by Celia Morris is a memoir describing how marriage and conformity eroded the self-respect and dignity of the author's generation.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (Oct., $29.95) by Elizabeth M. Schneider. A pioneer in securing legal rights for battered women discusses how claims for those rights emerged from feminist activism.
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