Stevenson, Seth. Grounded: a down to earth journey around the world. Sydney: Harper Collins, 2001. Makes a great case for circumnavigating the world without leaving the ground.
Hazard, Richard. In Hazard. New York: New York Review of Books, 1938/2008. Ficto-ethnographic study of cargo ship when it hits a hurricane. Anxiety inducing narrative.
Secreste, Merlye. Frank Lloyd Wright: a biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. A less than flattering account of the man behind the architect.
Atlas, John. Seeds of change. Vanderbilt University, 2010. Atlas gave an account of his book dealing with the Acorn organization (we should all know about) and how it was destroyed by the Republican Party and FoxNews. Scary stuff.
Gauguin, Paul. Letters to his wife and friends, edited and with a preface by Maurice Malingue, trans. by Henry J. Stenning, Boston: MFA, 2003. Deals with Gauguin's struggles to survive, relations with fellow artists and to maintain contact with his estranged wife. Background reading for the Tate's Gauguin retrospective.
For a much a less sanguine view of the Canary Wharf development and its social implications, see Kal Gulson's Education policy, space and the city, forthcoming from Routledge.
Perec, George. An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris, trans. Marc Lowenthal (Cambridge, Mass.: Wakefield Press, 2010). This extraordinary little novella documenting the infraordinary makes mention of number 96, our local bus.
Cobb, Richard. Paris and elsewhere. New York: New York Review of Books, 1998. Acquired at Paris' Village Voice, this set of essays on Paris and other cities in France is marvelous.
Cobb, Richard. Paris and elsewhere. New York: New York Review of Books, 1998. Acquired at Paris' Village Voice, this set of essays on Paris and other cities in France is marvelous.
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