Ralph Steadman
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1970, British artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former associate of the Hell's Angels, one Hunter S. Thompson. Their working relationship resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism. This book tells the inside story of a remarkable collaboration that documented the turbulent years of the civil rights movement, the Nixon years, Watergate,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Ralph Steadman's legendary partnership with American writer Hunter S. Thompson started a new style of reportage which captured the imagination of a generation. They first teamed up to cover the Kentucky Derby in May 1970"--BOOK JACKET. "Their most notorious collaboration, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, became one of the bestselling titles of our era. Gonzo journalism and Gonzo art symbolized the times. This collection will be the first to show Steadman's...
7) Appetites
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anthony Bourdain is man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family and friends. Appetites, his first cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire...
8) Animal farm
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Language
English
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Description
George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.