On a remote outpost of the Galapagos, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, h...
Pages: 112, Paperback, University of Illinois Press
A biography of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who on May 31, 1927, landed in Paris from New York after completing the first solo transatlantic flight. Up...
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Es...
Pages: 400, Paperback, Penguin (Non-Classics)
As member of a Nazi resistance group dubbed the Red Orchestra, Mildred Fish-Harnack was sent to the guillotine by Hitler in 1943, the only American wo...
In a new hardcover edition, here is the story of how Oskar Schindler, a German-Catholic industrialist, came to save more Jews from the gas chambers th...
Pages: 400, Edition: Touchstone Ed, Paperback, Touchstone
This true-life adventure is the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship "Essex"--an event as mythic in the 18th century as the "Titanic" disast...
The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevel...
Pages: 192, Edition: 1, Paperback, Mariner Books
