In this soldier's story, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental loss of innocence that occurred as a result of World War I. Written after the war and as a farewell bid to England and a way of life that had ended, this book traces Graves upbringing thro…
Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally color-blind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders describe their colorless wo…
The author provides an insight into what it is like to be an African American in Africa where she found that color was not a factor but American-ness was.
