The Great Dismal
Bland Simpson
Simpson mixes personl experience, travel narrative, oral history and natural history to produce an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people.

by Paul Dempsey (1994)
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Bland Simpson
Simpson mixes personl experience, travel narrative, oral history and natural history to produce an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people.
Lisa Wells
"A searing portrait of a generation on the brink, Yeah. No. Totally. delivers the bad news. With a voice at once angry, soulful, fearless, and anarchistic, Lisa Wells pulls no punches. From the self-conscious nights at the bar to the shores of a river that no longer exists, from the internet message boards to the motel rooms after the show, Wells has seen herself, and she has seen us. This is what we look like"--Back cover.
Christopher Kremmer
A new and updated edition of "Stalking the Elephant Kings", the award-winning book on Laos by the author of "The Carpet Wars". Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visited Laos - at the crossroads of change in Southeast Asia.
Linda Jakobson
First as a teacher and then as a Finnish foreign correspondent living in China, author Linda Jakobson describes the changes that have been taking place over the past ten years. A result of hundreds of interviews with Chinese of all ages and of all ranks, this personal, wide-reaching, and intelligent book speaks on several topics with some startling conclusions.