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...after seven expeditions and almost three decades of search for the famous adventurer and his party, the trail was cold, but the subject of Fawcett was not. Conceding at last that all hope of the colonel's return was gone, the Fawcett family has released for publication the memoir of his seven expeditions through the South American rain forest. It ranks as one of the major narratives in modern exploration...
...Prodigy is Norbert Wiener's memoir of his difficult years as a child genius. Now a mathematics professor at M.I.T. and a pioneer in the development of machines to do the work of men (Cybernetics-TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), he has written a book that rivals in psychological interest, if not in literary skill, the recollections of such other youthful prodigies as John Stuart Mill and Samuel Butler...
...began an editor-writer relationship which lasted until Poet Thompson's death almost 20 years later. It is the theme of this double memoir by Meynell's daughter Viola, who draws two clear, contrasting portraits of two utterly different characters. Based largely on her father's private papers, her book provides not only a sheaf of new Thompson letters but also evidence that without steady, warmhearted Editor Meynell, Thompson, the poet, might never have existed...
Such, Such Were the Joys is a miscellany of pieces written mostly during the 1940s; political essays, autobiography, literary criticism. The title piece, a long memoir of Orwell's early school days, is a masterpiece of narrative. No one has evoked more memorably the brutality young boys can show each other, the elaborate code of honor that prevails among them. "In winter," wrote Orwell, "your nose ran continually, your fingers were too numb to button your shirt . . . and there was the daily nightmare of football -the cold, the mud, the hideous greasy
Cricket, Too. His memoir is not merely a chronicle of a shy boy's woes. Orwell recognized that even in unhappy circumstances boys find ways to be happy, and lis story is brightened with recollections of butterfly hunts and cricket games that read as well as his darker pages...