ANGRY WIND: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
Jeffrey Tayler
This engrossing narration of crossing the Sahel—the Saharan borderlands of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Mali—by tortuous and frequently hair-raising local conveyances finds a barren, Continue reading »
Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing
Jeffrey Tayler
Tayler (Siberian Dawn
) takes readers on an extraordinary adventure across the largest landmass on earth, from Russia through the Caucasus into South Ossetia and Continue reading »
The ideal readers for this book would be World Bank advisers drawing up credit agreements in their five-star Moscow hotel rooms as they dine on German beef. Yet anyone seeking an understanding of Continue reading »
In this Heart of Darkness-revisited tale, Tayler (Siberian Dawn) sets out to retrace the steps of British explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who in the 1870s, accompanied by a crew of hundreds of Continue reading »
In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones
Jeffrey Tayler, Nina Khrushcheva
Khrushcheva (The Lost Khrushchev), Russian-born professor of international affairs at the New School, and Tayler (Siberian Dawn), a Moscow-based American journalist married to a Continue reading »
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
John Blair
In this expansive volume, archaeologist Blair (Building Anglo-Saxon England) surveys stories of corpses rising from the dead, from classical Greece to the “corpse killing” Continue reading »
In this eye-opening account, historian Everill (Not Made by Slaves) outlines the biases, projections, misunderstandings, and irrationalities underlying Western economic Continue reading »
The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place Nobody’s Ever Heard of
Patrick Wensink
Novelist Wensink (Broken Piano for President) presents a charming, idiosyncratic love letter to his native Ohio. He hails from the state’s rural northwest, a land “so empty... Continue reading »
The Tesla Files: A Whistleblower, a Leak, a Fight for Truth: The Inside Story of Musk’s Empire
Sönke Iwersen, Michael Verfürden
In this riveting debut investigation, Iwesen and Verfürden, journalists at the German newspaper Handelsblatt, uncover Tesla’s shadowy and dangerous business practices. Based on Continue reading »