Books like Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
12 books with a reading profile close to Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Victoria Finlay tracks the physical origins of artistic pigments by traveling to the remote geographical sources of the rainbow.
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Erik Larson reconstructs the final 1915 voyage of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, tracking its path from New York toward the Irish coast during the early stages of World War I.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Thomas Cahill argues that during the fifth century, as Germanic tribes dismantled the Roman Empire and burned its libraries, the classical tradition survived only on the remote island of Ireland.
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett entered the Amazon jungle to locate a hidden civilization he named "Z," believing it to be the birthplace of complex South American culture.
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
history, narrative
Daniel James Brown reconstructs the 1846 Donner Party disaster through the specific experiences of Sarah Graves, a twenty-one-year-old newlywed traveling west from Illinois.
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan moved beyond the deep South to establish a stronghold in the American Midwest, specifically Indiana.
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lived with the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul who risked imprisonment to preserve Afghan literature.
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Garrett M.
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Germany
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Neil MacGregor examines five centuries of German history through the lens of thirty specific objects and monuments.
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Consider the Eel
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Richard Schweid tracks the biological lifecycle of the eel from its mysterious breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to its development in the freshwater rivers of Europe and North America.
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
by Bill Bryson
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Bill Bryson traces the development of the English language from its obscure Germanic origins into a dominant global tongue.
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Aftermath
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Harald Jähner chronicles the decade between 1945 and 1955, examining the logistical and psychological survival of Germans in a nation fractured into occupation zones.
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