Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.>
From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana''a by civil warbr>br>Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen''s central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country''s rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the U.S. embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.br>br>The Monk of Mokha is the story of this courageous and visionary young man following the most American of dreams.>
Starting off on the Eurostar from London, the author sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. This book is infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology.
For many years, the author has been travelling widely and chronicling his interactions with the countries and people he has encountered during his journey across continents. This title offers a collection of his travel writing, one that spans his entire career and includes pieces on Sudan, China and a dozen other destinations.
Lets readers follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove - roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond.
A selection from Susan Sontag's private diaries written in her youth and early adulthood. It features the young Sontag's complex self-awareness. It also shares in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking.
The widespread general impression of Matisse as on one hand a somewhat frivolous painter and on the other a rather dull and uninteresting person is long overdue for revision. This revealing biography closely examines the relationship between his life and his art.
Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated in fiction and non-fiction what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life.
The Arnold Rothstein Story. An angry howl from the heart of America, 'King of the Jews' is at once a fractured biography of Arnold Rothstein, an elegy to New York's blaring glory years and a scathing attack on a host of contemporary demons.
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern MexicoNogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.Moving through the deserts just south of the Arizona border, Theroux finds a place brimming with charm, yet visibly marked by both the US border patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. Attending local language and culinary schools, driving through the country and meeting its people, Paul Theroux gets under the skin of Mexico.From the writer praised for his ''curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms'' (New York Times Book Review), On The Plain of Snakes is an urgent and mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict. Praise for Paul Theroux:''As cool as Maugham... as observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene'' Sunday Times''Theroux''s work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged'' Observer''The world''s most perceptive travel writer'' Daily Mail''One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation'' The Times>
