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Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth
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Dispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more.
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Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (17701838) wrote at least forty-five letters to his olde
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Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illus
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'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas – it is a depiction of the s
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Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's co
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A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. Dear Mark Twain col
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Unfolded in this extraordinary collection of letters is the story of an American slave family living in two worlds—Liber
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