Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized w

Recounts the adventurous lives of four European women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wilderness of the Middle East and North Africa.

A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and

Part cookbook, part travelogue, this unusual book is designed to conjure up far-off lands and local dishes, from Rothschild dinner tables to Turkoman tents. The

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.