Pegasus imprint: 717 books
Seven Elements That Changed the World
An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From iron to uranium, titanium to silicon, this is “a wide-ranging look at scientific progress. It’s also a lot of fun” (The Wall Street Journal).
Iron. Carbon. Gold. Silver. Uranium. Titanium. Silicon. These elements of the periodic table have shaped our lives and our world, in ways...
The Girl with No Name
The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The unbelievable true story of a young girl who is abandoned in the Colombian jungle and finds asylum in the most unlikely of places—with a troop of capuchin monkeys
In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman...
Earthquake Storms
An Unauthorized Biography of the San Andreas Fault
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A geologist explores the fault line that threatens disaster for millions in this “must-read for earthquake buffs—and West Coast residents” (Library Journal).
It’s a geological structure that spans almost the entire length of California. Dozens of major highways and interstates cross...
Farewell to Reality
How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist).
Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental...
by Patrick Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
“Even in death one could still tell the families – all holding hands”. For a modern generation unaware, immune or indifferent to the horrors of the Holocaust, these simple words throw into sharp relief the very real and very personal tragedy perpetrated by the Nazi regime. Mass murder was systemically...
The Last Great Ape
A Journey Through Africa and a Fight for the Heart of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The true story of an adventurer-turned-warrior fighting poachers and traffickers to protect animals from extinction.
Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his organization, The Last Great Ape (LAGA), have put countless poachers and traffickers of endangered species behind...
Paris to the Pyrenees
A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Part adventure story, part cultural history, this “enjoyably offbeat travelogue” explores the phenomenon of the spiritual pilgrimage (Booklist).
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees....
90-Day Geisha
My Time as a Tokyo Hostess
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
An introspective journey into the glamorous world—and Dionysian temptations—of Japanese nightlife
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The hard-drinking, drug-taking, all-night culture that dominates Tokyo’s Roppongi district can be a surreal place. Intrigued by rumors of this strange subculture and armed with...
by Brandy Schillace
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists?welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative?or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age.
The gear turns, the whistle blows, and the billows...
The Story of Music
From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Why did prehistoric people start making music? What does every postwar pop song have in common? A “masterful” tour of music through the ages (Booklist, starred review).
From Mozart to Motown and beyond, this “racily written, learned, and often shrewdly insightful” social history reveals...
The Making of Markova
Diaghilev's Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
As improbable as it is inspiring, the story of one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century; her fortitude and reinvention; and her journey from the Ballets Russes, Balanchine, and Matisse to international stardom
In pre–World War I England, a frail Jewish girl—so shy she barely...
by John Suchet
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Giuseppe Verdi remains Italy’s greatest operatic composer and a man of apparent contradictions—vividly brought to life through a nuanced examination of his life and monumental music.
Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced....
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Anton Chekhov’s only collection of crime and mystery stories.
Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Scattered throughout periodicals and literary journals from 1880-1890, these early psychological suspense...
by Ian Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**The past is another country – this is your guidebook, from nationally bestselling author of *The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England. ***
Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys’s diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares....