Books in Cultural Ethnic & Regional
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Lame Deer Memoirs of a Sioux Medicine Man
Hellraiser, philosopher, sheepherder, sheriff, rodeo clown, lover, medicine man--Lame Deer was all of these and in this one-man play adapted from his book of memoirs, the Lakota Sioux holy man and sage recounts his life in a series of wry, wise, humorous and always entertaining anecdotes.
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Lost The Frank Vandenbrouke Story
<p>Frank Vandenbroucke is the great lost talent of world road cycling. Born in Mouscron in Belgium in 1974, he went on to race for three of the biggest professional teams on the world circuit - Lotto, Mapei and Cofidis, and became the darling of the cycling press for his daring approach to winning races. Between 1993 and 1999 he won a slew of races, including the Liege-Bastogne- Liege (known amongst the cycling fraternity as the hardest race in the world), Het Volk, Paris-Nice, Paris-Brussels and stages of the Tour of Spain. The Tour de France was in his sights. But his personal life was another story; he became addicted to cocaine and succumbed to pressures within his teams to take EPO and other performance-enhancing drugs. The notorious Cofidis team - where he was joint team leader with Scotland's David Millar - eventually broke him. On leaving Cofidis he moved to the Italian team Lampre and then a number of other teams until he effectively ended his career in 2004, aged only 30. Five years later, he was dead.</p>
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Tractors, Kalashnikovs and Green Tea My Life of Tractors and Travels
Ian M. Johnston is a historian, photographer, vintage car collector, and an internationally known expert on tractors. Johnston has lived the history of post-war farming and farm machinery in Australia, and he offers insights into part of Australia's post-World War II history that is rarely recorded or described so humorously. Having worked with the legendary Lanz tractor firm, he eventually formed his own agricultural machinery business, which allowed him the opportunity to travel abroad, visiting various countries, such as Japan and Romania. This delightful memoir offers amusing details of his travels involving tractors.
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