Sunday, August 2, 2009

Books of the World: The gift of countries

New countries acquired for my reading queendom:

  • Bhutan: Queen Of Bhutan Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck: Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan
  • Botswana: Peter Allison: Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
  • East Timor: Luis Cardoso: The Crossing: A Story of East Timor
  • Gambia: Phyllis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral
  • Grenada: Richardo Keens-Douglas: The Nutmeg Princess
  • Liechtenstein?: Gustav Wilhelm: The Journey of the Liechtenstein Gallery from Vienna to Vaduz
  • Liechtenstein (alternate): Gerda Lerner: Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
  • Luxembourg: Edward Steichen: The Family of Man
  • Malta: Professor Sir Themistocles Zammit: Prehistoric Malta: Tarxien Temples and Saflieni Hypogeum
  • Mauritania (if better can't be found): Samuel Cotton: Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery
  • Namibia: Neshani Andreas: Purple Violet of Oshaantu
  • Paraguay: Maureen Burn: Outcast but Not Forsaken: True Stories from a Paraguayan Leper Colony
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Basil Warner: Killing Time Between Buses
  • Tunisia: Aicha Ben Abed: Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from Roman Africa
  • Tuvalu: Gerd Koch (ethnographer): Songs of Tuvalu

Thanks, friends and family!