Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
Africa United
Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Africa United is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield, the former Africa Correspondent for The Independent, meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, discovering the role that soccer has...
Venus Envy
Power Games, Teenage Vixens, and Million-Dollar Egos on the Women's Tennis Tour
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A behind-the-scenes look at the hugely popular and often controversial world of women's tennis featuring such household names as Venus and Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova. At a time when attendance and TV ratings for women's tennis are at an all-time high, Sports Illustrated writer L.Jon Wertheim,...
Love Me, Hate Me
Barry Bonds and the making of an Antiher
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
No player in the history of baseball has left such an indelible mark on the game as San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds. In his twenty-year career, Bonds has amassed an unprecedented seven MVP awards, eight Gold Gloves, and more than seven hundred home runs, an impressive assortment of feats...
As the Romans Do
The Delights, Dramas, And Daily Diversio
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream...
The Race for Timbuktu
The Story of Gordon Laing and the Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers––and fortune hunters––than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle Ages, held the promise of wealth and fame...
by Colin Thubron
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“Colin Thubron is the intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writing brilliantly about them.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
“Thanks to Thubron, we encounter a world which, in its beauty...
The Red Market
On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
“An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.”
—Michael Largo, author of Final Exits
Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads...
by Colin Thubron
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.With a keen grasp of Russia's history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the perfect...
The Lost Girls
Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“Brave, funny, and deeply moving.”
— Cathy Alter, author of Up for Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over
“Three cheers to The Lost Girls for showing us, with good humor and graceful prose, the beauty and importance of leading life astray.”
— Franz...
River Town
Two Years on the Yangtze
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize
In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path...
The Cactus Eaters
How I Lost My Mind—and Almost Found Myself—on the Pacific Crest Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared an apartment...
by Tom Piazza
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which...
Crossing the Heart of Africa
An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Banff Mountain Book Awards WINNER
The spellbinding true story of retracing the extraordinary trek of Ewart "the Leopard" Grogan—the legendary British explorer who, in order to win the woman he loved, attempted to become the first person to cross Africa
In 1898 the dashing...
The House on First Street
My New Orleans Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
After fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck. The House on First Street is the chronicle of Reed's remarkable and often hilarious homecoming, as well as a thoroughly original tribute to our country's most original city.