Richard Schweid is a journalist and documentary reporter. He is the author of nine nonfiction books, including Che’s Chevrolet, Fidel’s Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba, Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum, Consider the Eel: A Natural and Gastronomic History, and The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore. He has also produced or reported more than two dozen documentaries for Catalonian public television, including the Oscar-nominated Balseros.
12 Ebooks tarafından Richard Schweid
Richard Schweid: Invisible Nation
‘By the second or third day that you’re homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirty. …
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Richard Schweid: Che’s Chevrolet, Fidel’s Oldsmobile
Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba …
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Richard Schweid: Hot Peppers
Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Richard Schweid traveled to the capital of the U.S. hot sauce industry, New Iberia, Louisiana. This is Cajun country, and
capsicum (as hot peppers are …
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€16.99
Richard Schweid: Consider the Eel
Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel’s life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. ‘The eeler who explained the animal’s life …
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€18.99
Richard Schweid: Che’s Chevrolet, Fidel’s Oldsmobile
Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba …
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€63.33
Richard Schweid: Octopus
Our relationship to the octopus dates back to prehistory, when the eight-armed animal was depicted on vases and found in stone carvings from ancient Greece. Now we appreciate them for their …
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€12.48
Schweid Richard Schweid & Schweid Richard Schweid: Eel
When pulled from the mud of creeks, ponds, rivers, or the sea, the eel, with its slick, snake-like body, emerges as an extremely mundane and even unappealing fish. But don’t let the appearance fool …
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Schweid Richard Schweid: Cockroach Papers
Skittering figures of urban legend-and a ubiquitous reality-cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms …
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Richard Schweid: The Caring Class
The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home health care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people—almost always women—willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller. The Ca …
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Richard Schweid: Hot Peppers
Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Richard Schweid traveled to the capital of the U.S. hot sauce industry, New Iberia, Louisiana. This is Cajun country, and capsicum (as hot peppers are …
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€22.88
Richard Schweid: Consider the Eel
Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel’s life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. "The eeler who explained the animal’s …
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€25.42
