In June 1960, Alzada Kistner and her husband David, an entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo.

Through a series of vignettes, M.F.K. Fisher brings us a sampling of her adventures, filled with wonderful details of memorable meals, fascinating people, and romantic places experienced while traveling through America and Europe.

The Paris salon of Gertrude Stein hosted the luminous talents of an era: Picasso, Matisse, Cocteau, Fitzgerald, Apollinaire, and Hemingway.

Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day when he worked in one of her Catholic worker soup kitchens.

Ethan Frome is a keenly etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village.

When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn’t realize that she would spend the rest of her life there.

This biography presents the Lucille that her fans have never known, from her virtual abandonment in childhood, through her early vaudeville and Hollywood years, to her troubled relationship with Desi Arnaz.

In this chilling tale, Felix Canaris, a suicidal writer, is saved by a mysterious visitor, Jasper Helwyze.

Elizabeth Taylor was catapulted into child stardom and molded by MGM into the great violet-eyed beauty of the 1950s.

Rachel Carson reveals the winds and currents of ocean life as seen through the lives of Scomber, the mackerel, and Anguilla, the eel.