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Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Abigail Noyce
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That she herself was now the older, drier, pouchier-faced woman who once had been, as Pip was now, a mobile destabilizing menace, a kind of rogue warhead …
Jonathan Franzen • Purity: A Novel
In his book The Crofter and the Laird, the American author John McPhee journeys to Colonsay, the tiny Hebridean island that was the home of his ancestors. Here, he discovers, ‘almost every rise of ground, every beach, field, cliff, gully, cave, and skerry has a name’. The island has only 138 inhabitants, but 1,600 place names.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
He gained a reputation as one of the best shipwreck divers on the East Coast; some said he might be among the best in the world. One day Nagle paid him the highest compliment by saying, “When you die no one will ever find your body.”
Robert Kurson • Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Louis Sr. was a swift quipper, and I loved just listening to him talk.