Product Catalog

Biography & Memoir M-Z

Individual titles:

• The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus - Lets readers join Roget on his worldly adventures and emotional journeys as he explored the power of words.
• The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan - The astonishing true story of Josiah Harlan, the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, the man who would be the first and last American king.
• Mandela: The Authorized Biography - by Anthony Sampson
• Mao Zedong: A Life - The essential background about the Chinese leader, including his relations with family, friends, and confidential assistants, as well as his youthful writings, poems, letters, and drafts of speeches.
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu - Marco Polos incredible odyssey--along the Silk Road, and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life
• The Master - A fictionalized study based on many biographical materials and family accounts of Henry James's life
• Me Talk Pretty One Day - by David Sedaris
• The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East - by Neil MacFarquhar
• Merde Happens - by Stephen Clarke
• Mississippi Solo: A Memoir - by Eddy L. Harris
• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali - The true story of the life and death of a remarkable West African midwife
• Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir - by Elena Gorokhova
• A Moveable Feast, the Restored Edition - by Ernest Hemingway
• Mr China: a Memoir - A coming-of-age tale for both the author and his fellow westerners who foolishly dreamed of conquering the vast Chinese market.
• Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa - by Peter Godwin
• My First Summer in the Sierra
• My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir - by Susan Allen Toth
• Northern Nurse
• Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood - by Nega Mezlekia
• Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route Into Spain - A delightfully irreverent tour of the 500-mile pilgrimage route from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• On Argentina - by Jorge Luis Borges
• On Paris - by Ernest Hemingway
• Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian LIfe
• One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir - A groundbreaking and wide-angled memoir by the acclaimed Kenyan Caine Prize winner Binyavanga Wainaina
• One Man's Meat - A New England classic back in print.
• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History - Born in 1735, Elizabeth Marsh traveled farther and more adventurously than any other woman, and most men, of her time.
• Original Letters from India: New York Review Books Classics
• Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure
• Out of Africa And Shadow On the Grass - by Isak Dinesen
• The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland - by Barbara Sjoholm
• Paris to the Moon - The New Yorker magazine writer's essays about life in the City of Light.
• Paris, Paris: Journey into City of Light - by David Downie
• Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir - by Donald Worster
• The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism - by Megan Marshall
• Pearl Buck in China: Journey to "The Good Earth." - by HIlary Spurling
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - A memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return - The nationally best-selling graphic memoir of adolescence, homecoming, and exile, sequel to Persepolis
• Persian Girls: A Memoir - A story of promises kept and promises broken, of dreams and secrets, and most importantly, of sisters.
• The Pianist - This post-World War II memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived in Warsaw between 1939 and 1945, offers a testimony to the power of music and humanity.
• The Piano Shop On the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier - by Thad Carhart
• Picasso
• Pink Boots and a Machette: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explo - by Mireya Mayor
• A Pirate of Exquisite Mind - The first major biography of the explorer--and pirate-- William Dampier, one of the pioneers on whose insights our understanding of the natural world was built.
• Pitch Uncertain: A mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice - by Maisie Houghton
• A Place Called Home
• Ponds of Kalambayi: A Peace Corps Memoir - by Mike Tidwell
• Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong - by Terry Teachout
• Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner - Chronicles Andersen's persistent longing for the landscape she left behind
• Prospero's Cell Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu
• Pyongyang Journey in North Korea - by Guy Delisle
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - The astonishing true story of young women who met in secret each week to read and talk about forbidden Western classics in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Recollections of a Provincial Past - The best known of several autobiographies by 19th century Argentinean Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
• Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now - by Jan Wong
• Return to Paris: A Memoir - The internationally celebrated food writer stimulates all the senses as she skillfully mixes vibrant memories of her early life in post-World War II Paris, with descriptions of meals that changed her life.
• River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra - A marvelous account of an epic journey and a touching portrait of the friendship between a traveler and his dog.
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey - Traces the bold 1914 expedition to chart the Amazon's treacherous River of Doubt, and casts new light on the expedition's extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt.
• River of Forgotten Days: A Journey Down the Mississippi in Search of La Salle - by Daniel Spurr
• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze - A powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval.
• Road from Coorain - One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman.
• Rowing to Alaska And Other True Stories - The story of McLennan's utterly extraordinary life through a series of adventures.
• Running Away To Home - by Jennifer Wilson
• Sahara - by Michael Palin
• San Juan: A Memoir of a City - by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia
• Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy - An absolutely convincing portrait of a complicated hero.
• Sea Room Life in the Hebrides - by Adam Nicolson
• Season of Migration to the North
• A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler - In an era when the blind were routinely warehoused in asylums, James Holman was circumnavigating the world alone
• Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York - The surprising history of stone walls in New England and New York
• Serpent in Paradise - by Dea Birkett
• Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter - The behind-the-scenes memoir from the first female captain at one of New York Citys most prestigious restaurants.
• Seven Years in Tibet - The extraordinary true story of how a young Austrian adventurer became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans.
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - Rereates the history of Rwanda's barbarous and chaotic civil war and genocide
• Shenzhen: a Travelogue from China - by Guy Delisle
• Short Walk in Hindu Kush - by Eric Newby
• Shutterbabe : Adventures in Love and War
• Silk Parachute - by John McPhee
• Simon Bolivar: A Life - Illuminates the inner world of Bolivar, the dynamics of his leadership, his power to command, and his modes of ruling diverse peoples
• Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents - by Paul Theroux
• Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet - The story of a thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet
• Small Memories - by Jose Saramago
• Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution - by Moying Li
• Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing - by Da Chen
• South with the Sun - Roald Amundsen: His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery - by Lynne Cox
• The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans - by Courtney Angela Brkic
• Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs: in Afghanistan and Pakistan - by Greg Mortenson
• Strength in What Remains - by Tracy Kidder
• A Strong West Wind: A Memoir - An exquisite memoir, from a 1950s childhood in the Texas Panhandle through the 1960s and beyond.
• Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign - by Pico Iyer
• The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures... - by David Lebovitz
• Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer - Re-creates the experience of her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit.
• Tales from the Expat Harem
• Tales of a Portuguese Nun - by Myriam Cyr
• Tears Of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur - by Halima Bashir
• Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women - by Jean Said Makdisi
• Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands - by Roger L Di Silvestro
• Thieves of Baghdad - A mixture of police procedural, treasure hunt, and wartime thriller
• Things I've Been Silent About: Memories - by Azar Nafisi
• A Thousand Days in Venice - When Marlena de Blasi traveled to Italy, she expected to fall in love with the country, not to be swept away by a Venetian man.
• Three Cups of Tea - One man's humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard
• Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York - At once a celebration of a newly fragile city and a poignant study of a family trying to find its way, and joy, within it.
• Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land - Part memoir, part travel book, part history, Tibet, Tibet ventures beyond our world-weary fantasies to discover the truth behind a culture's struggle for survival.
• To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays - A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.
• To School Through the Fields: A Country Childhood Remembered - by Alice Taylor
• Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton - The story of Denys Finch Hatton, whose life was celebrated by Isak Dinesen in "Out of Africa."
• Toujours Provence - by Peter Mayle
• A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light - by Bryce Corbett
• The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur - by Daoud Hari
• Travels in West Africa
• True North: A Memoir - The challenges that confronted Conway, as she sought to establish her public self.
• The Turkish Lover - by Esmerelda Santiago
• The Twelve Little Cakes - The colorful story of a precocious child born to recognized dissidents associated with the failed Prague Spring uprising.
• Unbowed: A Memoir - Wangari Maathai recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
• Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
• Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story - This memoir traces the Wheelers' personal story and the evolution of their travel guide series
• The Village of Waiting - by George Packer
• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy - by Carlos Eire
• West of Kabul East of New York - by Tamin Ansary
• When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa - by Peter Godwin
• Where the Road Ends - by Binka Le Breton
• Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer - by Alexander Maitland
• With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer - by Susannah Clapp
• The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul - A New York Times "10 Best Books - 2008"
• The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography - A biography of the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
• The World, The World - by Norman Lewis
• Writer and the World - by V. S. Naipaul
• Yage Letters - Harris has untangled the history of William S. Burroughs's expedition into the jungles of South America to find "yage," the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon.
• A Year in Provence - A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir - A chronicle of Soyinka's turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.
• The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands - The Zanzibar Chest is an enthralling narrative of men and women meddling with, embracing, and ultimately being transformed by other cultures - one of the most important examinations of colonialism ever written.
• Zeitoun - by Dave Eggers