New York Scribner: 4 books

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's Three Years (1895) was written a decade before the Revolution of 1905--A period of marked lull that preceded the Revolution wherein the intellectuals either harboured a hope for a resurgent Russia or some (like Chekhov) viewed present with a critical eye knowing that dreams...

One of a generation on the brink of a tremendous social upheaval, Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), despite his flashes of humour, paints in his plays and essentially tragic picture of Russian society.  The plays in this volume - Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vania, and Three sisters,...

Aku-Aku, the Secret of Easter Island describes Thor Heyerdahl's research at Rano Raraku & Anakena on their many giant stone statues. The book & later film made a major contribution to awareness, outside anthropological & archeological communities, of both the island & the statues....

In Lawrenceville he wrote his name J. Montague Smith and lived up to his reputation as a society butterfly. But when a net of suspicious circumstances closed about him and he was obliged to leave his native town and begin life over again in the far West he called himself John Smith and tried to meet...