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Book cover for "Don't let's go to the dogs tonight"
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4.1 stars
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CHILDHOOD IN ZIMBABWE.
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An autobiographical account of Alexandra Fuller's childhood in Zimbabwe. The author describes her childhood in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979, relating her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia with an alcoholic mother and frequently absent father.
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THE AUTHOR, A NATIVE AMERICAN, JOINS THE PEACE CORPS AND TRAVELS TO BOLIVIA IN THE 1990s.
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"Memoir by Ursula Pike (Karuk) of her time serving with the Peace Corps in Bolivia. Focusing on international travel from a California Indian perspective, the memoir asks what it means to be both colonizer and colonized, and inquires into the challenges of building relationships between Indigenous groups from very different places"--
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REVISITING SOME OF THE SITES FEATURED IN THE ORIGINAL GREEN BOOK.
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"The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other...
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2.4 stars
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SOUTHERN USA
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"An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--
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4.3 stars
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RETRACES GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TRAVELS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES COLONIES.
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"Does George Washington still matter? The ... author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative...