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Title	Author	Description
Afloat Afloat	Guy de Maupassant Maupassant	Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK) Contributors: Douglas Parmée
An African in Greenland African in Greenland	Tete-Michel Kpomassie Kpomassie	"Kpomassie is indisputably a man of extraordinary charm; he is also sharp and perceptive and honest?unencumbered by a sense of obligation to his hosts that might have prevented him from telling us what they are really like."— Katherine Bouton, The Nation Contributors: Al Alvarez , James Kirkup
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Autobiography of an Unknown Indian	Nirad C. Chaudhuri Chaudhuri	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Contributors: Ian Jack
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Black Sun	Geoffrey Wolff Wolff	Black Sun is master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's picture of a brilliant and self-destructive man who sought to make his life into a work of art.
Conundrum Conundrum	Jan Morris Morris	A pioneering memoir exploring the borders of gender and early sex-reassignment surgery.
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait Flaubert and Madame Bovary	Francis Steegmuller Steegmuller	A work of scholarship, a profound contribution to literary criticism, Flaubert and Madame Bovary is a biographical study executed with all the precision and vision of a great novel. Contributors: Victor Brombert
Hindoo Holiday Hindoo Holiday	J. R. Ackerley Ackerley	Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature. Contributors: Eliot Weinberger
A Journey Round My Skull Journey Round My Skull	Frigyes Karinthy Karinthy	The author was 48 when he was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. His memoir follows him through the stages of symptom, diagnosis, and surgery. "Karinthy's book is, to my mind, a masterpiece. . . . A Journey Around My Skull, the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best."—Oliver Sacks, from the Introduction. Contributors: Oliver Sacks , Vernon Duckworth Barker
Letters from Russia Letters from Russia	Astolphe de Custine Custine	The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. Contributors: Anka Muhlstein
Madame de Pompadour Madame de Pompadour	Nancy Mitford Mitford	Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. Contributors: Amanda Foreman