Finalist, 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Winner, 1998 J. Anthony Lukas Prize “An enthralling story, full of fascinating characters,intense drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulations,courageous truthtelling, and splendid moral fervor . . . A work of history that reads like a novel.” —Christian Science Monitor “Carefully researched and vigorously told, King [...]
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Drayson, Nicholas — A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
“A charming love triangle in Nairobi, Kenya, forms the center of a novel that manages to be both sweet and gripping.” —Publishers Weekly “A lighthearted novel about birding and a wager to win the right to call a woman for a date.” —Kirkus “While the reader is pulled along by the suspense of the contest, [...]
