Nonfiction Book Poll

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Have you read or heard of any of these? Which should I select to read and review this week?

Poll #30149 Nonfiction book poll

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Which of these nonfiction books shall I read and review in the coming week?

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Mountains I: Everest: Alone at the Summit, by Stephen Venables. His team gets in trouble on Everest in 1988.
9 (12.0%)

Mountains II: Buried in the Sky, by Peter Zuckerman. Two Sherpas survive K2 when eleven other climbers died in 2008.
19 (25.3%)

Ocean: The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean, by Susan Casey. What it says on the tin. She wrote that great Vanity Fair article on the Titan.
43 (57.3%)

Water: Why We Swim, by Bonnie Tsui. What it says on the tin.
19 (25.3%)

Fire: Firestorm at Peshtigo, by Denise Getz & William Lutz. About the OTHER fire the same night as the Great Chicago Fire, less known but even worse, in Wisconsin 1871.
19 (25.3%)

Island: Island Year, by Hazel Heckman. A chronicle of the natural life of an island in Puget Sound in 1966.
17 (22.7%)

Britain: The Dun Cow Rib, by John Lister-Kaye. The natural landscape of Britain via childhood holidays by a Scottish naturalist.
12 (16.0%)

A Zuni Life: A Zuni Life: A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds, by Virgil Wyaco. What it says on the tin. Wyaco got a Bronze Star in WWII, then became a tribal leader in Zuni, NM in 1970.
34 (45.3%)

Dogs: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, by Caroline Knapp. What it says on the tin, by the author of Drinking: A Love Story.
15 (20.0%)