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Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer (1912-2006)

explorer, photographer, mountaineer, alpine skier, geographer, golfer

  • University of Graz

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Seven Years in Tibet (Sieben Jahre in Tibet)
Wiedersehn mit Tibet
Weisse Spinne
Lost Lhasa
I come from the stone age
Sieben Jahre in Tibet
Seven years in Tibet
Beyond Seven years in Tibet
Siete años en el Tibet
Der Himalaya blüht
Unterwegs
Return to Tibet
Sieben Jahre in Tibet
Mein Leben
Die Götter sollen siegen
Sieben Jahre in Tibet
Sieben Jahre in Tibet
Seven years in Tibet
Ladakh Gods and Mortals Behind the Himalayas
Erinnerungen an Tibet
Geister und Dämonen
Borneo
Seven years in Tibet
Die Weiße Spinne. Das Große Buch vom Eiger
Geheimnis Afrika
Das alte Lhasa. Bilder aus Tibet
Entdeckungsgeschichte aus erster Hand
Rinpotsche von Ladakh
Die letzten Fünfhundert
Wiedersehen mit Tibet
Ladakh
Huka-Huka
Seven Years in Tibet
I Came from the Stone Age
Reencuentro Con El Tibet
Huka- Huka. Bei den Xingu- Indianern im Amazonasgebiet
Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama
Meine Tibet-Bilder
I come from the stone age
The Book of the Eiger
SIete años en el Tíbet
Sedam godina u Tibetu
Ladakh
The white spider
Fifty years after Tibet
Die Weisse Spinne
The Heinrich Harrer limited edition portfolio = Han-rig Ha-rar tshad can par deb kyi par bźi = Das Heinrich Harrer limited edition portfolio
The great escape Tibet and Lhasa
Tibet Is My Country
Mein Leben. 5 CDs. Mit einem Exclusivinterview des Autors
Seven years in Tibet
Ich komme aus der Steinzeit
Seven years in Tibet
Unter Papuas
Wiedersehn mit Tibet
Mein Leben. 4 Cassetten. Mit einem Exclusivinterview des Autors
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry (born 1937)

journalist, photographer

  • Pembroke College in Brown University, University of Maine

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Messenger (The Giver #3)
The Giver
A summer to die
Number the Stars
Imagine
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick
Rabble Starkey
Looking back
Gossamer
Anastasia at This Address
All about Sam
Switcharound
See You Around, Sam!
The Willoughbys
Zooman Sam
Taking care of Terrific
Autumn Street
Like the willow tree
Crow call
Find a stranger, say goodbye
Anastasia has the answers
Your move, J.P.!
Gooney Bird and the room mother
Gooney the Fabulous
Son
Anastasia's Chosen Career
Anastasia Absolutely
Shining On
Literature Guide
Attaboy, Sam! (Sam)
Gathering Blue
Anastasia Again
The one hundredth thing about Caroline
Stay!
Anastasia Krupnik
Woods at the End of Autumn Street
The Silent Boy
Anastasia on Her Own
Bless This Mouse
Gooney Bird is so absurd
Us and Uncle Fraud
Anastasia at Your Service
Birthday ball
Gooney Bird Greene
Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst
Anastasia On Her Own
Dear author
Gooney Bird on the map
Carol und Phil und das Chaos nimmt seinen Lauf
Gooney Bird and all her charms
Anastasia - Three of the Best
Carol und Phil und der unheimliche Mister F.
Could It Really Happen?
Giver Quartet
Willoughbys Return
Anastasia ist nicht zu bremsen
The Neuman Systems Model and Nursing Education
Anastasia off her rocker
Anastasia. Hals über Kopf
Literature Circle Guides
Newbery Collection Boxed Set
ECONOMIC AND PERSONAL BENEFITS AND COSTS OF GENERIC BACCALAUREATE AND BSRN NURSING PROGRAMS IN THREE NORTH ATLANTIC STATES
Number the stars and related readings
TotA+lly middle school
On the Horizon
The giver
Number the Stars (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Windeby Puzzle
Here in Kennebunkport
The Road Ahead
The Sam Krupnik Series
Anastasia Krupnik Stories
The Worlds of Lois Lowry 3 Copy Boxed Set (The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger)
Giver L-I-T Guide Literature in Teaching
Anastasia Tiene Problemas New Ed
Windeby Puzzle
Giver (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Rabble Starkey
Gooney the Fabulous
Reading on a Roll
Gathering Blue
Anastasia Package
The Worlds of Lois Lowry 3-Copy Boxed Set
Gooney Bird Greene Three Books in One! : (Gooney Bird Greene, Gooney Bird and the Room Mother, Gooney the Fabulous)
Giver (Graphic Novel)
Your Move, J.P.!
The One and Only Anastasia
Anastasia Krupnik ; Anastasia again ; Anastasia at your service
Like the Willow Tree
SparkNotes Literature Guide to The Giver
Summer to Die
Willoughbys Movie Tie-In Edition
Anastasia e suo fratello
Summer to Die
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (born 1958)

poet, film director, essayist, actor, photographer

  • Lycée Chaptal, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon

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Extension du domaine de la lutte
La possibilité d'une île
Soumission
Sérotonine
La Carte et le Territoire
Ennemis publics
H.P. Lovecraft-Contre le Monde, Contre la Vie
Plateforme
Lanzarote et autres textes
Unreconciled
Les Particules Elementaires
Le sens de combat. Der Sinn des Kampfes
En présence de Schopenhauer
Interventions
Die Welt als Supermarkt
Suche nach Glück
H. P. Lovecraft
" Rester Vivant" Et Autres Textes
Michel Houellebecq
Beauty Our 50th Issue
Las partículas elementales
Aniquilación
Anéantir
Rester vivant
Renaissance
Les Classiques Larousse
The art of struggle
Interventions 2
Interventions 2020
Configuration du dernier rivage
Vincent Lambert - Une mort exemplaire ?
Platform Proof
Interventionen
Interventions 2020
Rester vivant
Interventions 2020
Unreconciled
Compendium Michel Houellebecq
Kusatilmis Yasamlar
Plattform
Michel Houellebecq
Poésies
Gail Levin
Gail Levin (born 1948)

art historian, photographer, curator, academic, essayist, women's rights activist, historian, art theorist, artist, exhibition curator

  • Tufts University, Rutgers University

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Lee Krasner
Edward Hopper
Hopper's places
Synchromism and American color abstraction, 1910-1925
The Poetry of Solitude
Marsden Hartley in Bavaria
Ethics and the visual arts
Becoming Judy Chicago
Silent places
Twentieth-Century American Painting
Alex Katz, process and development
Theresa Bernstein A Century In Art
Aaron Copland's America
The Watercolors of Edward Hopper
The Paintings of Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper. Ein intimes Porträt
Marsden Hartley
Wassily Kandinsky and the American avant-garde, 1912-1950
Die gemalte Wirklichkeit. Edward Hopper und sein Amerika
Edward Hopper as illustrator
Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
Edeward Hopper as Illustrator
EDWARD HOPPER CROWN ART LIB (Crown Art Library)
Edward Hopper, prints and illustrations
Learning Through Songs
Symphonics R Us
Edward Hopper at Kennedy Galleries
Angel Mateo
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

poet, essayist, painter, photographer

  • Harvard University, John Burroughs School

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Naked Lunch
Last words
Junkie
The ticket that exploded
Nova Express
Speed
The exterminator
Queer
The retreat diaries
The Yage Letters
The Yage Letters Redux
Word virus
My education
The last words of Dutch Schultz
Ghost of chance
The Soft Machine
Cities of the Red Night
Queer
The letters of William S. Burroughs
The wild boys
Kentucky ham
Burroughs Live
The western lands
Interzone
The cat inside
The adding machine
The third mind
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
The job
Cities of the red night
Rub Out The Words The Letters Of William S Burroughs 19591974
Kentucky Ham
Semiotext(e) SF
Speed
Rebels and Devils
Port of saints
The place of dead roads
The soft machine ; Nova express ; The wild boys
Speed and Kentucky Ham
Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Tornado alley
Ali's smile
Roosevelt after inauguration and other atrocities
Western Lands, the
Everything Lost
The Place of Dead Roads
Junky
Ah Pook is here, and other texts
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
Place of Dead Roads
Letters of William S. Burroughs
Cursed from Birth
Junky
Junky
The book of breeething
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
The Ticket That Exploded
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Apocalypse
Reason Gives No Answers
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: Volume I
Exterminator! A novel
Painting and Guns
Three novels
La Maquina Blanda
Naked scientology ; Ali's smile
The Burroughs file
El almuerzo desnudo
Rub Out The Words Letters Of William Burroughs 19591974
Dead Fingers Talk
Rules of Duel
Blade runner
Last Words (1960s A)
Everything lost
Nova Express
Le festin nu
Bruce Weber : an exhibition
Word Virus (Flamingo Modern Classic)
Roosevelt after inauguration
William S. Burroughs
Don't hide the madness
Exterminator!
The Fenris Wolf 1-3
Last Words
The wild boys
Junkie
Havre des saints
The Soft Machine; Nova Express; The Wild Boys
Junky
Le Complot
APO-33
Early routines
Letters
The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks
Soft Machine
Las Cartas de La Ayahuasca
Speed
Almuerzo Desnudo
Mon éducation
William S. Burroughs' "The revised Boy Scout manual"
Rub Out The Words The Letters Of William S Burroughs 19591974
Cities of the Red Night
Yonqui ; El almuerzo desnudo ; Queer
The Finger
Blade runner, a movie
Last Words
LSD FLASHBACKS
The Ticket That Exploded
The job
Rub Out the Words
The Cat Inside
Queer
Le job
Oeuvre croisée
Evil River
Essais
Les terres occidentales
In Youth Is Pleasure
Exterminator!
Junky
Lost Art of Ah Pook Is Here
The Place of Dead Roads
Yonqui
Sidetripping
The Job
Yage Letters
Nova Express
Cobble stone gardens
Les Garçons sauvages
Le Havre des saints
Ah Pook Is Here and Other Texts
Ghost of Chance
New Writing and Writers
Junky
Und die Nilpferde kochten in ihren Becken
In Youth Is Pleasure
William Burroughs
The Cat Inside
Everything Lost
Yumusak Makine
Cursed from Birth
Exterminateur!
Conversations With William Burroughs
El lugar de los caminos muertos
Patlamis Bilet
Writers at work
Kentucky Ham
Mummies
Son Sozler
Ticket That Exploded
DOCTOR BENWAY
Sidetripping
Gato encerrado
Place of Dead Roads
Ciplak Solen
The Third Mind
Cities of the Red Night
Mummies
Map from Hell
Ciplak Sölen
Junkie. Bekenntnisse eines unbekehrten Rauschgiftsüchtigen
Nova Express
Wild Boys
Interzone
The Electronic Revolution
The letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959
Exterminator!
Blade Runner
Yonqui
Yok Edici
Junky
Mayfair Acadamy series more or less
Los chicos salvajes
Book of Breeething
Junky
Vahsi Oglanlar
Çıplak Şölen
Last Words of Dutch Schultz Edition
Last Words: Qui Vivre Verra
Burroughs and Friends
In Tangier
Electronic Revolution/Die Elektronische Revolution
My Education
Finger
Word Virus
¡Exterminador!
Western Lands
Icerdeki Kedi
The exterminator [by] William Burroughs [and] Brion Gysin
City Lights Journal
Havre des saints
Queer
Soft Machine
Third Mind
Strade Morte
Strange Amazing and Mysterious Places
Arabolge
The Letters of William S.Burroughs, 1945-59
Job
Seven Deadly Sins
Tiquet Que Exploto, El
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Junky (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio)
Junky
Textes
Wild Boys
Speed and Kentucky Ham
Nova Express
Paper Cloud Thick Pages (Art Random Series, No 102)
Cat Inside
El fantasma accidental
Nova Ekspresi
Exterminator!
Naked Lunch
Blade Runner
RE/Search 4/5
Painting
William Burroughs Reader
My Education
So who owns death TV?
Letters, 1945-59
Interzone
Place of Dead Roads
The dead star
Blade Runner
Y los hipopótamos se cocieron en sus tanques
Rub Out the Words
Oeuvre croisée
Electronic revolution, 1970-71
Cities of the Red Night
DEAD FINGERS TALK (by the author of Naked Lunch)
Los chicos salvajes
Kentucky Ham
Textes
Lasers (The Inside Story)
Ah Puch está aquí y otros textos
The Western Lands
Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"
Adding Machine, Collected Essays
Die Vier Apokalyptischen Reiter
Reefer Madness
Naked Lunch
Minutes to go
Ruski
Western Lands
Maquina Blanda, La
Come in with the Dutchman
Adding Machine
Elektro Devrim 8
White Subway
Dead fingers talk
Benim Egitimim
William S. Burroughs I
Die Elektronische Revolution
Entre chats
La revolución electrónica
Snack ....
Early Routines
Naked lunch
Junkie
You can't win
Rub Out the Words
Expreso Nova - Tapa Dura -
Burroughs Live
Speed
Nova Express (Evergreen Black Cat Book, BC-102)
Radiert die Worte aus
Nova Express
Time
My Education
Naked Lunch
Time
Electronic Revolution
They do not always remember
La Fille aux cheveux verts
William Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Bob Kaufman
Beat!
The naked lunch
The cut-up method of Brion Gysin
Time
The Moving times
Le festin nu
Queer
Trip to hell and back
Proclaim present time over
Dead fingers talk
Academy 23
El almuerzo desnudo
Burroughs, Pélieu, Kaufman
In search of yage
Stiletto One
The dead child
Apomorphine
Parenthetically 7 hertz
Blade runner
La scimmia sulla schiena
The seven deadly sins
Two abstracts
Datchi Shurutsu saigo no kotoba
Helnwein Faces
Helnwein - Kindskopf - Head of a Child
Heroin maintenance
William Burroughs counter display
Nova express
Blade Runner
Nova express
Dead fingers talk
赤裸的午餐
Queer
Queer
Tornado alley
Naked scientology
Cartas del yage
Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs
Interzone
William S. Burroughs
Ten age future time
Re/search #4/5
The book of breething
Anti-junk
Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs
Gradovi crvene noći
Special Burroughs issue
The moving times
At the front - critical reception
Golyj zavtrak
The Moving times
So who owns death TV?
Without your name, who are you?
Uncommon Quotes
Th e seven deadly sins
William S. Burroughs ; Brion Gysin ; and, Throbbing Gristle
Yonki
Between spaces
Cobble stone gardens
Révolution électronique
Boards syndicates governments of the earth pay
Pieces
Il pasto nudo
Lettre d'un maître intoxiqué aux drogues dangereuses
Les lettres du yage
"Naked lunch"
La révolution electronique
Burning heavens, idiot
Just say no to drug hysteria
Le camé
Jack Kerouac
The Coldspring News
La machine molle
Interview
Prostranstvo mertvykh dorog
El Lugar de Los Caminos Muertos
Die elektronische Revolution
Le lettere dello Yage
George Congo
Ah Pook Is Here!
Shotgun paintings
Twilight's last gleamings
The ticket that exploded
Burēdo rannā
En de nijlpaarden werden gekookt in hun bassins
The yage letters
Electronische revolutie
APO-33 bulletin
What in Horton Hotel Rue Vernet Gen-San Marino Zaliola the swan last day de Cobo Princi e di castel-hos it-cicale von Keop en Countesse Gay Gudewill Count Hell does that mean?????????
Sinki's Sauna
Les garçons sauvages
I, William Burroughs, challenge you, L. Ron Hubbard
Ultimes paroles
File ticker tape
The soft machine
Some of IT
Gisèle Freund
Gisèle Freund (1908-2000)

photographer, opinion journalist, historian

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Frida Kahlo
Three Days with Joyce
Gisèle Freund, photographer
Photographie et société
Gisèle Freund
Frida Kahlo
Photographie et société
Gisèle Freund
Photographie und bürgerliche Gesellschaft
Mémoires de l'œil
James Joyce in Paris
Carnets de Gisèle Freund
Le monde et ma caméra
Gisèle Freund, Photographien
Catalogue de l'œuvre photographique Gisèle Freund
Gisele Freund
Gisèle Freund
Au pays des visages
Mexique précolombien
Gisèle Freund, die Frau mit der Kamera
Photographs
James Joyce in Paris
Gisèle Freund, l'œil frontière
The world in my camera
Fotografía Como Documento Social
Photography & society
Gisèle Freund, portrait
Three Days With Joyce
La photographie en France au XIXe siècle
El mon i la meva càmera
Malraux sous le regard de Gisèle Freund
Photographie und bürgerliche Gesellschaft
Die Blattspitzen des Paläolithikums in Europa
Fotografien 1932-1977
Adrienne Monnier Saint-John Perse et les amis des livres
James Joyce in Paris
Photography and Society
James Joyce in Paris
La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle
Fotograf ve Toplum
Mexique précolombien
Photographie und Gesellschaft
Itinéraires. précédé de Janus, le masque, le portrait
Le monde et ma caméra
Gisèle Freund, itinerarios
In Memoriam Gisèle Freund
Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)

explorer, diplomat, historian, military personnel, photographer, traveler, botanical collector

  • University of Oxford, Eton College

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The Marsh Arabs
Arabian sands
Wild
My Life and Travels
The last nomad
Danakil Diary
Desert, Marsh and Mountain
A Vanished World
Among the Mountains
The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library)
My Kenya days
La Vie que j'ai choisie
The Thesiger Collection
The life of my choice
Crossing the Sands
Desert, Marsh and Mountain (Memoirs of Arabia)
The desert
Visions of a Nomad (Memoirs of Arabia)
Les Arabes des marais irakiens
Les déserts des déserts
Die Brunnen der Wüste. Mit den Beduinen durch das unbekannte Arabien
Visions of a nomad
Désert des déserts
Among the Mountains Travels In Asia
Wilfred Thesiger's photographs
A journey in Nuristan
Desert Marsh + Mnt De Lux
Arabian sands
Wüste, Sumpf und Berge
Carnets dAbyssinie
Arenas de Arabia
On the edge
Greg Child
Greg Child (born 1957)

mountaineer, photographer, film director

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Postcards from the Ledge
Over the Edge
Thin air
Thin air
Mixed emotions
Climbing
Climbing
Over the edge
Escalada
Over the Top
Climbing Free
Free climber
Sin oxígeno
Climbing Free