National Geographic Society: 329 books
by Alan Axelrod, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Who are the pivotal figures in American history, the men and women who have helped shape us as a people and have influenced how we perceive ourselves as Americans? In this companion to his popular 1001 Events That Made America, Alan Axelrod looks into all areas of our collective past and highlights...
Pandora's Lab
Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?
History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids...
Planetwalker
22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand-he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades...
by Francine Prose
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment...
Desert Memories
Desert Memories
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert...
by Kathryn Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Displaying her "real talent for conjuring far-flung times and places," Kathryn Harrison tells the mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In the spring of 1999, Kathryn Harrison set out to walk the centuries-old pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela....
Vampires
Unearthing the Bloodthirsty Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
What real-life character inspired Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula? Did a blood-sucking demon haunt ancient Mespotamia? Did 16th-century Venetians drive a stake through the heart of a true vampire, or was something more sinister at work?
For thousands of years vampires have both terrified and...
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English.
At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether...
Fields of Honor
Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict...
Receding Tide
Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
It’s a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South’s effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege,...
by Winston Groom
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club.
In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull Run, with nearly 5,000 casualties,...
The Allies
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order.
By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against...
Declassified
50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted...
by Geoffrey Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Novelist and biographer Geoffrey Wolff has spent many summers in Maine—sailing its coastal waters, climbing its rocky peaks, and communing with its natives. Now, with the voice of a passionate insider, he brings readers into the heart of this striking region and explains what makes it unique. Starting...