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Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley 9780803273634
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.98In 1971 Manual Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background, discovered a band of twenty-six "Stone Age" rain-forest dwellers living in total isolation. The tribe was soon... -
In a State of Memory by Tununa Mercado 9780803282698
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.92In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile:... -
Red Jacket: Seneca Chief by Arthur C. Parker 9780803287556
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.08This is the story of the famous and controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, ca. 1750-1830), whose passionate and articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many... -
The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection by Mari Sandoz 9780803292420
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records... -
Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot 9780803294592
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.47Their father's favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was, "Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death." And now, Colin observes of the man sprawled under all the broken... -
Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists (Second Edition) by Paul Russell Cutright 9780803264342
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.29First published in 1969, Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists remains the most comprehensive account of the scientific studies carried out by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their... -
Rooney: A Sporting Life by Rob L. Ruck 9780803222830
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.05Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing... -
Encyclopedia of Organic, Sustainable, and Local Food by Leslie A. Duram 9780803236257
Booksplease Price: £29.01In 2009 First Lady Michelle Obama established an organic vegetable garden at the White House, reflecting the impact and popularity of the "green" food movement at even the highest levels. Global... -
The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 by Jonathan R. Dull 9780803219304
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.33For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost... -
The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival by Denise Low 9780803294936
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.30"Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end," Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by... -
Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe by Kate Buford 9780803240896
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete in U.S. history. With clarity and an eye for... -
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney 9780803281776
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.24Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the... -
Boy Almighty: An Autobiographical Novel by Frederick Manfred 9781496227706
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496227706Author Frederick ManfredFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint -
Journey Into Christmas and Star Across the Tracks by Bess Streeter Aldrich 9781496233042
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496233042Author Bess Streeter AldrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 60I -
Perfect Murders by Horace Leonard Gold 9780803233591
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Perhaps best known for editing the popular post-World War II magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Horace L. Gold also wrote comic-book scripts for DC Comics and penned... -
In the School of War by Roger J. Spiller 9780803228160
Booksplease Price: £20.12Fort Leavenworth, where Roger J. Spiller taught the army's finest for twenty-five years, is indeed a "school of war." There, among military professionals who had experienced war firsthand, Spiller... -
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale L. Morgan 9780803251380
Booksplease Price: £18.10In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, "a wilderness," he wrote, "of two thousand miles diameter." During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry... -
John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into... -
Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 1: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 1 (Revised Edition) by Edwin L. Sabin
Booksplease Price: £18.55Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and... -
Windows by Anne Quinney
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers... -
Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend by Robert M. Utley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Custer and the Great Controversy was the first book to focus on the origins of what has come to be called the Custer myth. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has always been wrapped in mystery and... -
Black '41: The West Point Class of 1941 and the American Triumph in World War II by Bill Yenne
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.48Black '41 opens with the arrival of the class of 1941 at the gates of West Point in the spring of 1937. It follows that class-nicknamed "Black '41" for their misdeeds while at the Academy-over the... -
Basketball: Its Origin and Development by James Naismith
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men's Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and gymnastics didn't... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.65The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees by James Reidel 9780803259775
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.84Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists-the so-called middle generation,... -
Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes by Billy W. Watkins 9780803260412
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In 1961 President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. It seemed like an impossible mission and one that... -
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life by Loren Eiseley 9780803267411
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the mammoth bone collection hoarded in the old red brick... -
The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton 9780803273047
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.14George and Tamsen Donner and their children, among the very first to leave from Illinois, joined emigrants headed to California in the spring of 1846. Beyond Fort Bridger, Captain Donner led a large... -
Free Land by Rose Wilder Lane 9780803279148
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of their struggle to... -
The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 by Jonathan R. Dull 9780803235182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.51For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost... -
The Most High by Maurice Blanchot 9780803261907
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Dystopian novel of post-World War II EuropeDystopian novel of post-World War II EuropeAbout the AuthorMaurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and... -
Fable for Another Time by Mary Hudson 9780803264243
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where... -
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt 9780803236394
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and... -
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Woody Guthrie 9780803244757
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.96Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax,... -
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland 9780803270589
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a... -
Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays by Doris Willens 9780803297470
Booksplease Price: £12.44During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring black music to... -
Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son by Mary F. Ehrlander 9780803295902
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.702018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of... -
Black Cherries by Grace Stone Coates
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89In this series of linked stories the child narrator, Veve, cannot fathom all the mysteries of her family's life together, but by watching and listening she pieces together a painful past. Played out... -
Man of the Family by Ralph Moody
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.84Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and... -
One Man's West by David Lavender 9780803260306
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers...