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Chasing the Moon: An Epic Rivalry, A Monumental Challenge, The Race to be First by Robert Stone; Alan Andres (As told to)
36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This companion to the six-hour "American Experience" documentary airing on PBS goes beyond the series to reveal the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete the 1961 vision of President John F. Kennedy, with the first lunar landing in 1969.
Chasing the Moon: the Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke Tothe Apollo Landings by Robert Stone; Alan Andres (As told to)
27.99 NZD
Category: History
In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion book to the landmar ...Show more
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone (SUFFOLK CCC SELDEN)
41.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"A stunning novel by a great American writer."--"Washington Post" Jerusalem: home to seekers, heretics, hustlers, and madmen of many faiths. In this most fractious city, a plot unfolds to bomb the sacred Temple Mount. Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist, stumbles upon the plot while inv ...Show more
Death of the Black Haired Girl by Robert Stone
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good
In an elite New England college, Professor Steven Brookman embarks upon a careless affair with a brilliant but reckless student, Maud Stack. She is a young woman whose passions are not easily contained or curtailed, and is known as something of a firebrand on campus. As the stakes of their relationship ...Show more
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
50.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America ...Show more
Prime Green : Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
22.99 NZD
25.00 (8% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade, in the words of the man who experienced it all... From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, f ...Show more
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