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Welcome to Yale Representation's website

Submitted by yalerep
on Mon, 08/07/2017 - 14:01

We are a sales agency that is dedicated in its support of the bespoke publishers we represent and the numerous bookshops we visit.

Our list is diverse and ranges from the esoteric to the zeitgeist. We have books on politics, history, gardening, art, literature; there are doodling books, maps, guides to Britain, histories of philosophy and language … it is a long list, indeed.

We can guarantee the quality of these titles despite the vibrant range on offer.

Henry David Thoreau reviewed in the Financial Times

Submitted by yalerep
on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 14:41

The town of Concord is a 30-minute drive from Boston, a morning or an afternoon’s excursion.

Once there you can visit what’s now the Walden Pond State Reservation and inspect a replica of the one-room cabin Henry David Thoreau built for himself and inhabited from July 1845 to September 1847. You can walk around the wooded pond in less than an hour, enjoying the site’s serenity even though Route 2, Route 128 and the town are close by.  

The town was close by in Thoreau’s day too.

Mischka's War reviewed in the Financial Times

Submitted by yalerep
on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 11:50
Mischka Danos was able to make himself invisible if danger was in the offing, he could become totally still and unnoticeable, before silently melting away into the shadows. His third wife, the eminent historian of Soviet Russia, Sheila Fitzpatrick, witnessed it, twice, when they were confronted by muggers in the 1990s. She was amazed by how well it worked. But by then he was a past master at avoiding trouble.

Danos, a theoretical physicist, was born in Riga in 1922. Latvia was a punchbag for warring peoples during the 1940s, but he escaped conscription into the Latvian, German and Russian