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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." -Dave Eggers, New York Times Book ReviewSHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR's Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "On Point, " Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub...

Il vecchio e la pistola" racconta l'incredibile storia di Forrest Tucker, che ha cominciato a infrangere la legge all'età di quindici anni e ha «cessato l'attività» a settanta, con la sua ultima fuga da San Quentin. In mezzo ha vissuto una vita pericolosa e avventurosa: ha compiuto leggendarie rapine nei caveau della banche più blindate ed è finito diciotto volte in prigione, da cui per diciotto volte è riuscito a evadere nei modi più rocambol...

From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.

From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.

Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck, The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting true-crime tales by the author of the bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales."The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire. "True Crime" follows the twisting investigation of a Polish detective who suspects that a novelist pl...

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the AntarcticHenry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, ...

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By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographsHenry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to beco...

In den 1920ern hatten nicht die Bewohner von New York oder Paris das höchste Pro-Kopf-Einkommen: die reichsten Menschen der Welt waren die Osage-Indianer im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Oklahoma. Das karge Land, das ihnen als Reservat zugewiesen worden war, barg gigantische Ölvorkommen. Doch der Reichtum brachte den Osage kein Glück: Eine mysteriöse Serie von Morden nahm ihren Anfang, der Dutzende Stammesmitglieder zum Opfer fallen sollten. Die ...

Negli anni Venti del Novecento, la popolazione al mondo con la maggiore ricchezza pro-capite era, abbastanza sorprendentemente, la nazione indiana degli Osage, confinata nei decenni precedenti in una riserva in Oklahoma. Senza più bisonti da cacciare, impossibilitati quasi a parlare la loro lingua e a praticare la loro religione e cultura, improvvisamente si ritrovarono ricchissimi per la scoperta nelle loro terre di giacimenti petroliferi imm...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookNamed a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and SlateFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery a...

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A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the Amazon

A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the Amazon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." -Dave Eggers, New York Times Book ReviewSHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR's Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "On Point, " Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub...

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In 1920 zijn alle Amerikaanse indianenstammen naar een klein grondgebied verdrongen. Zo ook de Osages. Ze leven in de marge van de samenleving, totdat olie wordt gevonden op hun reservaat in Oklahoma. Plotseling zijn ze het rijkste volk ter wereld. Ze kopen auto's, bouwen grote huizen en laten hun kinderen studeren aan Europese universiteiten. Vervolgens worden de Osages een voor een vermoord. Het dodental blijft opgelopen en de zaak komt bij...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller - Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller. In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless people perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called "The Lost City of Z." In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, ...