Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General

Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Japan in 1867, the second son of Prussian businessman Carl Hartmann and a young prostitute, Osada. Upon her death shortly after Sadakichi’s birth, both boys were sent to Hamburg, Germany to live and be educated, as promised by Hartmann Senior to their mother on her deathbed. With this act of kindness, their father completely washed his hands of any further obligation to the boys. He ignored them completely as he continued his profession traveling the world over as a business rep for various corporations. Their father’s rare appearances, and gelid...

Sergey Grechishkin's world is strikingly different, largely unknown and fascinatingly unusual. A world that readers, who grew up in the...

The extraordinary story of one refugee's quest to find a new life in the midst of one the most pressing international crises of our time.

Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight. Just debris from the ship's wreckage and bloated, floating corpses all around. Doaa Zamel floats with an inflatable ring around her waist while two children cling to her neck. The babies had been thrust into her arms by their drowning parents, all refugees from Syria who boarded a dangerously overcrowded ship from Egypt bound for Sweden and a new life. Doaa must stay alive for these children. She must not...

Lenworth Henry's story began when he was born in Walkerswood, Jamaica, to parents who already had ten children between them. Shortly thereafter, the entire family moved five miles away, to a pioneering farming community; locally called New Pen, situated on the St Ann parish border with St Mary's. New Pen was a well-organized and governed community, that firmly upheld religious principles.
Lenworth's early years were filled with the sights and sounds of the farm. On weekdays, people from nearby farms and villages would bring his father horses and mules to shoe at his blacksmith shop....

Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed...

Legendary industrialist and entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller is a worldwide household name. But despite his immense celebrity, precious little is known about his humble origins, and even less about the man who gave him his name--his father, William Rockefeller.

William "Big Bill" Rockefeller's personal and professional life were shrouded in mystery. What is known is rather unsavory, and his son, after achieving global recognition for his economic success, did all he could to suppress the truth about his father's seedy (verging on criminal) behavior. One of the few sources of...

Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer--one who risked his life a century before Selma and Birmingham.

In Tasting Freedom Murray Dubin and Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Biddle painstakingly chronicle the life of this charismatic black leader--a "free" black whose freedom was in...