Lists of Bests: friedag's "Favorite Nonfiction" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/42394 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:15:12 GMT en-us 0 50 98 50 0 The Brontes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1214941 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Juliet Barker</div> The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2172 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0071414290.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Tomalin</div> A World of My Own http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2695688 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2695688"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0713668997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robin Knox-Johnston</div> Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/115174 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/115174"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0471404209.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Cookman</div> Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951036 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951036"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01YYfUPmQjL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Owen Beattie</div> Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (Bluejacket Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1033762 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1033762"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1557502307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Alexander Hough</div> Below the Convergence: Voyages Towards Antarctica, 1699-1839 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/885814 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/885814"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393039498.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Gurney</div> Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1728497 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1728497"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559634634.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1105807098_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard E. Byrd</div> By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy (Lost and Found Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951037 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951037"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/014RW4WNBHL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Gissing</div> A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/689319 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/689319"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312242050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430675_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Keahey</div> The Sea and the Jungle (Marlboro Travel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2649580 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2649580"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810160110.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. M. Tomlinson</div> Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco (Marlboro Travel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/827204 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/827204"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810160366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R.B. Cunninghame Graham</div> Fruit Palace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2937914 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2937914"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01D8WYS2FFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Nicholl</div> The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5028 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5028"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226580245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Nicholl</div> Martin's Hundred http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73049 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73049"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813913233.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivor Noel Hume</div> The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne : An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey (Virginia Bookshelf) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25668 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25668"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813917581.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056495847_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivor Noel Hume</div> Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319635 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/319635"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807841102.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34608316_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Stick</div> The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6394 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6394"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031242129X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giles Milton</div> The Long Way http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105579 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105579"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0924486848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernard Moitessier</div> Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative (Dover Maritime Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951044 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951044"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Fnxn3jT7L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Henry Dana</div> A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951045 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951045"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01CDDHDFZYL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Catherine Petroski</div> Serpentine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/931663 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/931663"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786707496.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Thompson</div> And the Sea Will Tell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1818747 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1818747"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327965.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vincent Bugliosi</div> Echoes in the Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174592 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174592"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553269321.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910139_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Wambaugh</div> Frame-Up!: The Shocking Scandal That Destroyed Hollywood's Biggest Comedy Star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1632144 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andy Edmonds</div> Hot Toddy, The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951047 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andy Edmonds</div> A Cast of Killers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951048 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951048"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11fQRR9i3DL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick</div> The Massie Case http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2596099 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Packer</div> Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89226 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Kent</div> The Rosenberg File: Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/717963 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/717963"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0300072058.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ronald Radosh</div> The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/438618 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/438618"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375500138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438339_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Roberts</div> White Mischief http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2744705 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2744705"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/009976671X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fox</div> Aristocrats: Sarah, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8596 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8596"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374524475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stella Tillyard</div> Celestine: Voices from a French Village http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951054 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951054"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01H58FEEQ4L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gillian Tindall</div> The bottlebrush tree: A village in Andalusia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951056 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hugh Seymour-Davies</div> The Last Log of the Titanic (Build Your Own) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951058 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951058"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01J3AB0GFEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David G. Brown</div> The Ship That Stood Still: The Californian and Her Mysterious Role in the Titanic Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951060 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leslie Reade</div> Plagues and Peoples http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9968 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9968"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385121229.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. McNeill</div> The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951063 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951063"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Y3R5N55RL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald R. Hopkins</div> The Ancient Mediterranean http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951070 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951070"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11897OTGfUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Grant</div> Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments (2Vols. in One) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78431 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/78431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/051734582X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Noah's Flood : The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217469 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217469"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684859203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Ryan</div> Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/323690 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/323690"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312319711.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65769093_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Wilson</div> The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14241 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14241"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465022723.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian M. Fagan</div> Vermeer: A View of Delft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491421 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491421"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805069305.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493028_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Bailey</div> Kiki's Paris : Artist and Lovers 1900-1930 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81542 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81542"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0810925915.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Billy Kluver</div> Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99003 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99003"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400049512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Hancock</div> A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49275 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49275"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1886913021.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056535287_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Mallon</div> The Assassin's Cloak http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951194 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951194"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01WA7H8780L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Taylor</div> Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (Studies in the Life of Women) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2294461 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2294461"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805210040.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493054_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lillian Schlissel</div>