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Product Description: In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty-three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice...read more
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9780307594808 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 24, 2012, cover price $25.95
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9780307741868 | Vintage Books, January 8, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S.
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9780307269959 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 21, 2009, cover price $22.95
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9780307390981 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, June 8, 2010), cover price $15.00
Furnishes a colorful portrait of the eccentric Poppa Neutrino, a vagabond who has cobbled together a life considered by most to be outside of normality, documenting his various roles as a street musician, San Francisco beatnik, football enthusiast, and wanderer, as well as the lives of his followers, including his three wives. 35,000 first printing.
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9781400065431 | Random House Inc, March 13, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: David Pearlman, 74, is a restless and migratory soul, a mariner, a musician, a member of the Explorers Club and a friend of the San Francisco Beats, a former preacher and sign painter, a polymath, a pauper, and a football strategist for the Red Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation.
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9780618382699 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 14, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Blending together biography, memoir, and essay, the author details his twenty-five year relationship with the legendary writer and New Yorker fiction editor, brilliantly examining the powerful bond between mentor and mentee.
Originally published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and other periodicals, this collection of twenty outstanding essays features the author's profiles of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the Rolling Stones, and Paul Simon, as well as his fascinating study of a New York artist who invites people to call and leave an apology on his answering machine.
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9780618123117 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays, originally published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Esquire,' and other periodicals, includes the title piece about a New York artist who invites people to call and leave an apology on his answering machine.
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9780618123018 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Blending together biography, memoir, and essay, the author details his twenty-five year relationship with the legendary writer and New Yorker fiction editor.
Product Description: When I was twenty-three years old, five months out of college, with a degree in music, and without any idea of what to do with myself, I took a job as a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and resolved to stay with it for a year because I thought it would do me good...read more
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9781886913325 | Ruminator Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When I was twenty-three years old, five months out of college, with a degree in music, and without any idea of what to do with myself, I took a job as a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and resolved to stay with it for a year because I thought it would do me good.
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9780394545875 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1985, cover price $2.98 | also contains Trailblazers in Religion | About this edition: Draws a portrait of North Carolina liquor agent Garland Bunting, a man who will do nearly anything, including dancing, preaching, or dressing up as a woman, to get his culprit
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9781886913240 | Ruminator Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A wonderfully alive portrait of an American original who is the most successful revenue agent in the history of a state that has always been enormously productive of moonshine, also serving as a memorable account of life in backwoods Halifax County, North Carolina.
9780140089851 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Draws a portrait of North Carolina liquor agent Garland Bunting, a man who will do nearly anything, including dancing, preaching, or dressing up as a woman, to get his culprit
The story of Mike Wayne Jackson, who killed his probation officer and continued on a killing spree that took him from Indianapolis to Missouri, looks into the heart of American violence and its consequences
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9780679415077 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The story of Mike Wayne Jackson, a man who killed his probation officer and continued on a killing spree that took him from Indianapolis to Missouri, looks into the heart of American violence and its consequences
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9780679749820 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1994), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The story of Mike Wayne Jackson, who killed his probation officer and continued on a killing spree that took him from Indianapolis to Missouri, looks into the heart of American violence and its consequences
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9780394573137 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Reveals the lives of Portuguese-American fishermen of Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Tlingit Indians of Admiralty Island in Alaska, and John Cronin's work in protecting the Hudson River
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9780679741343 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1992), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Reveals the lives of Portuguese-American fishermen, the Tlingit Indians of Alaska, and John Cronin's work in protecting the Hudson River
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9780394573120 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A compelling and timely study of the migrant workers who cut cane for large American sugar companies in Southern Florida provides an inside look at the difficult lives of the workers and at their exploitation by the powerful sugar industry
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9780679731870 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Wilkinson, Alec
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9780394521596 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The defined and undefined beauty and ugliness of a small town is revealed by a music student who joins the police force of a Massachusetts resort community
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