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Language: en
Pages: 372
Pages: 372
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 178
Pages: 178
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-21 - Publisher: Knopf
This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure throug
Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
New translation based completely on a surviving copy of Steller's 1743 manuscript that details the exploration of Alaska.
Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-10 - Publisher: Mariner Books
Dodge Morgan, at age 53, sailed around the world nonstop in 150 days, the fastest solo circumnavigation ever made. This book tells the story of that incredible
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and t