Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: biography/memoir
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West With the Night: The First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
The memoir of the British-Kenyan pilot Beryl Markham, a pioneer of African aviation
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Knife Review – Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Writer Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempted murder that almost fulfilled the fatwa imposed on him by Islamic fundamentalists.
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Book Review: From Scraps to the Everest
The story of the first Black Brazilian woman to climb Mt. Everest. An the 130 tons of recyclable material she had to collect to fund her expedition.
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Book Review: Child of the Dark*- The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
One of the most venerated Brazilian authors, the autobiography of her life in the slums and my issues with it
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