Roaring Forties Press: 23 books

Cover of A Journey Into Michelangelo's Rome
by Angela K Nickerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008

From St. Peter’s Basilica to the Capitoline Hill, this unique resource-part biography, part history, and part travel guide-provides an intimate portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo and the city he restored to artistic greatness. Lavishly illustrated and richly informative, this travel...
Cover of A Journey Into Flaubert's Normandy
by Susannah Patton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006

Richly illustrated with maps, historical and contemporary photographs, and period artwork, this guidebook takes tourists and armchair travelers on a stimulating journey through the small towns, rolling hills, and windswept coast of Flaubert’s Normandy. The novelist’s homes and the locations that...
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The Edge

The War against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports

by Roger Pielke
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Roger Pielke reveals how sports stars break the rules in their search for a competitive edge.Both entertaining and thought-provoking, THE EDGE not only visits the battlefields in the war against cheating and corruption, but also explores ways to ensure that “the spirit of sport” can survive in today’s...
Cover of A Journey Into Matisse's South of France
by Laura McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007

For more than 50 years the passionate pursuit of color led Henri Matisse to visit some of the most enchanting villages in southern France. Travelers and art lovers will delight in this mix of art, history, biography, and travel guide that covers southern France and explores the teal skies, emerald hills,...
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Angels & Demons Rome

The Insider's Guide

by Angela K. Nickerson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

Retrace the steps of Robert Langdon, Vittoria Vetra, the Hassassin, and the camerlengo, to find a new and exciting perspective on the city of Rome.
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Bob Dylan

New York

by June Skinner Sawyers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

Packed with information, savvy insights, and surprising facts, this guide to Dylan’s years in New York City examines the role that the city played in the creation of his music, the evolution of his creative process, and the continual reinvention of his public persona.In the landscape of Manhattan,...
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by Mark Bernardo
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Weaving the story of the King's personal and public life with detailed descriptions of the locations in Memphis that served as the setting for his musical education and evolution, this pop culture guide offers a refreshingly even-handed account of Elvis Presley's life. Elvis came to Memphis as a 13-year-old...
Cover of A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's New York
by Kevin C Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Mrs. Parker, the new edition of this guide includes never-before-seen archival photographs to illustrate Dorothy Parker’s development as a writer, a wit, and a public persona. The book uncovers her favorite...
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Out of the Box

The Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler

by Julie McSorley, Marcus McSorley
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

Reg Spiers arrived in England in 1964 as a world-class athlete. He returned to Australia in a box, but that was only the start of his adventures.Crazily impulsive, romantic, and free-spirited, Reg became a national hero for smuggling himself 13,000 miles home as air freight. But as his fame and sporting...
Cover of A Journey Into the Transcendentalists' New England
by R. Todd Felton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006

This lavishly illustrated volume examines the major figures of the Transcendentalist movement and explores the places that inspired them. Beginning with Transcendentalism’s birth in Boston and Cambridge, the book charts the development of a movement that revolutionized American ideas about the artistic,...
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Shanti Bloody Shanti

An Indian Odyssey

by Aaron Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Journalist Aaron Smith never planned to go to India before he had a contract put on his life by a drug dealer, when suddenly India seemed like the perfect place to get lost. In the process, he ended up finding himself, as well as encountering a dead body or two, witnessing the tragic death of a friend,...
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Love on Trial

Our Supreme Court Fight for the Right to Marry

by Kris Perry, Sandy Stier
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Told in their own voice, this is the story of two women who took their struggle for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court--and won. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are the lead plaintiffs in the team that sued the state of California to restore marriage equality. By 2008, when Californians...
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Mad Men's Manhattan

The Insider's Guide

by Mark P. Bernardo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

This book introduces readers-whether they are native New Yorkers or Mad Men fans who have never set foot in the city-to the places, both famous and not so famous, that play a role in the historical and dramatic tapestry of Mad Men, from the famous Madison Avenue ad agencies that inspired its setting...
Cover of French Ghosts, Russian Nights, and American Outlaws: Souvenirs of a Professional Vagabond
by Susan Spano
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

Susan Spano, America’s original Frugal Traveler, explores some of the most romantic, most exotic, and wildest corners of the world in this captivating collection of her best-loved pieces.French Ghosts, Russian Nights, and American Outlaws: Souvenirs of a Professional Vagabond takes the reader on magical...
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