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by David P. Stern
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sstern.htm

                 
         

            Booklist, other recommended books, with brief descriptions.

  1.   A Fez of the Heart by Jeremy Seal
  2.   Murder on a Kibbutz by Batya Gur
  3.   The John McPhee Reader selections from books by John McPhee
  4.   When Earth and Sky Changed Places by LeLy Hayslip with Jay Wurtz
              continued in Child of War, Woman of Peace
  5.   The Happy Islands of Oceania by Paul Theroux
  6.   Nuclear Renewal by Richard Rhodes
  7.   Out West by Dayton Duncan
  8.   The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery
  9.   Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover
  10.   Slide Rule by Nevil Shute
  11.   Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold
  12.   The Ends of the Earth by Robert D. Kaplan
  13.   Searching for Paradise by Thurston Clarke
              (Original title: "Searching for Crusoe")
  14.   Baby, Would I Lie?" by Donald Westlake
  15.   Zero Three Bravo by Mariana Gosnell
  16.   The Transforming Principle by Maclyn McCarthy
              (The life of Oswald Avery and the Secret of DNA.)
  17.   Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
  18.   The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
  19.   The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  20.   Tycho and Kepler by Kitty Ferguson
  21.   Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
  22.   A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
  23.   Eastward to Tartary by Robert Kaplan
  24.   The Arch of Kerguelen by Jean-Paul Kaffmann
  25.   Washington Schlepped Here By Christopher Buckley
  26.   A Short History of Nearly Everything By Bill Bryson
  27.   Population 485 by Michael Perrry
  28.   The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
  29.   The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
  30.   Blue Latitudes the story of captain Cook, by Tony Horwitz
  31.   Talking to the Enemy by Avner Mandelman
  32.   Love my Rifle more than You by Kayla Williams
  33.   Night Calls by by Henry Eisenberg with Arlene and Howard Eisenberg
  34.   Imperial Grunts by Robert D. Kaplan
  35.   An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner
  36.   The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine The illustrated notebook of Henry O. Gusley
    edited and annotated by Edward T. Cotham, jr.
  37.   The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin
  38.   Francis Crick, Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
  39.   The Occupation--war and resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
  40.   The Origins of the Future by John Gribbin
  41.   Mirrors of the Unseen by Jason Elliott
  42.   The Coast by Joseph J. Thorndike
  43.   Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove
  44.   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  45.   Becoming Shakespeare by John T. Lynch
  46.   Jerusalem by Simon Goldhill
  47.   Doctors by Sherwin B. Nuland
  48.   In the Footsteps of Marco Polo by Dennis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell
  49.   In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
  50.   Nathanael Greene by Gerald M. Carbone
  51.   In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
  52.   The Oasis by Petru Popescu
  53.   The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
  54.   The Little Book of String Theory by Steven S. Gubser
  55.   Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
  56.   1948, A Soldier's Tale by Uri Avnery
  57.   I Shall not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
  58.   Sailors in the Holy Land by Andrew Jampoler
  59.   The Man who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley
  60.   Lost in America by Sherwin Nuland
  61.   Delhi by Sam Miller


 
         

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Author and Curator:   Dr. David P. Stern
     Mail to Dr.Stern:   david("at" symbol)phy6.org .

Last updated 24 November 2005