River of Lost Footsteps, Paperback - Thant Myint-U

Burma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on po...

Reducere. During a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it s...

Reducere. Award-winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine...

DescriptionIn 722 BCE, the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel were taken into captivity by the Assyrians--territory now comprising the cu...

Reducere. In the year 722 BCE the Israelite masses were taken by the Assyrian army and led off to exile. The legends surrounding the whereabouts of these Ten...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Lost Without the River is an elegantly wrought memoir of resilience, courage, and reinvention. A portrait of nature at its most beautiful and deman...

At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse, and is soon lost under the car parks and streets of the town its waters once gave lif...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes Biblical passages and Assyrian accounts of the deportation of the Israelites *Includes a bibliography for further read...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes Biblical passages and Assyrian accounts of the deportation of the Israelites *Includes a bibliography for further read...

Reducere. DescriptionHave you ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of your ancestors?Now you can, with the help of researcher and traveler Carolyn Schott and...

Reducere. After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and f...

At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve ...

Reducere. DescriptionFour Centuries of Speculation and Commodity MarketsFrom Tulips to Bitcoins is a fascinating look at big events in commodity and crypto m...

Reducere. They knew the trip would be difficult, but they didn't bargain on hell.The shout "giddap" starts the oxen down a path to the end of the world. For ...

Reducere. DescriptionA River Lost is the familiar story of an ancient culture infringed upon and altered forever by modern technology. It is the story of how...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joanne L. YeckPeter Field Jefferson: Dark Prince of Scottsville follows the rise and fall of Randolph Jefferson's most succ...

A blistering crime novel of the opioid epidemic--and its cops, villains, and victims--written by a twenty-five-year veteran of the DEA. Angel, Kent...

Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume `Sidetracks'.

Reducere. Fiction. An unnamed narrator returns to her ancestral home in an environmentally depleted harbor city with a baby in her care. She has escaped from...

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritance Names for Light traverses time and memory to ...

Reducere. 1. Nimbus (5: 13) 2. Flood (4: 21) 3. What Floats Beneath (5: 43) 4. Lost River (4: 45) 5. Styx (2: 51) 6. Night Sea Journey (5: 43) 7. Fluvius (6:...

Reducere. DescriptionThis atmospheric thriller is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter RobinsonA holiday weekend is ruined by a drowning in a picturesque...

Reducere. 'Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes' my mother once told me. As a smal...

Reducere. They knew the trip would be difficult, but they didn't bargain on hell.The shout "giddap" starts the oxen down a path to the end of the world. For ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce MarchianoGold Medallion nominee In the Footsteps of Jesus (more than 93, 000 copies sold), is available in softcoverB...

Walks in the Footsteps of Winston Graham's Poldark features 12 walks each associated with a different Poldark location from the books, a character,...

Reducere. On Sundays, Varun has his karate lesson, and his sister Varsha heads to dance school with their grandfather. One weekend, Varun reluctantly accompa...

A warm and engaging memoir from the star of Channel 5's popular series 'The Yorkshire Vet'. From work experience under James Herriot to eventually ...

Reducere. Russia - or to be exact, the Soviet Union - was the first country to probe the snowman riddle on a scientific basis. In 1958, in the post-Stalinist...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes a bibliography and online resources for further reading The Bible is the most fa...

In My Mother's Footsteps is a moving and heart-rending journey of a daughter discovering her roots and recovering her mother's beloved past. It's a...

'Grandmother's Footsteps' is a powerful story of two women separated by time, both struggling to acknowledge secrets from the past and seeking aton...

Reducere. Somebody has to tell the truth sometime, whatever that truth may be. In this, her debut full collection, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie offers up a body...

Reducere. Michael Hesemann's archaeological biography, Mary of Nazareth, was a best-selling work that has been translated into several languages. In this wor...

On the morning of 19 May 1536, a French blade stilled the heart of an English queen. Her name was Anne Boleyn and her story has made an indelible m...

This third book in Sue's series is unique for her personal style, the in-depth research, delightful details, the flora and fauna, and excellent pho...