496円 American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Whilst there he acted as a critical observer of North American society almost as if returning a status report on their progress. On January 3, 1842, one month ...

403円 Journal of Voyages contains an account of the author Captain Jacob Dunham (born 27 April 1779 in Connecticut,USA) being twice captured by the English and once by Gibbs the Pirate; his narrow escape when chased by an English War schooner; as well as his being cast away and residing with Indians. ...

403円 Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1630 and 1647, the journal describes t...

2,919円 Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of livesーand raised a lot of hellーin the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his nameーClifford being just one of themーsuggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit...

1,227円 The office of the American President has evolved dramatically over the last 200 years, from George Washington's heroic posturing as leader of a renegade nation, to calculated cunning as commander of a nuclear superpower. This colourful inventory of presidential transgressions reveals that every m...

813円 In 1910, at only 12 years old Marie Delos leaves Paris for Montana with her mother, having arranged to meet up with a cousin. She tells the story of her incredibly hard life, in the middle of a spectacular and dangerous land. An unusual and fascinating narrative set within French and American hi...

1,650円 Having spent a lifetime searching for Book of Mormon lands in some 250 ruins throughout Mexico and Central and South America, I am  intrigued to return to Cumorah where it all ended.  May and Goble have compiled fascinating arguments for those lands being in North-east America, comple...

1,048円 Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success highlights inventors of color from over seventy countries and five continents. This book took over twenty years to research and documents black inventors from 1769 - 2011. It a must read for parents, students, teachers and librarians. It is most...

5,305円 '…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in...

496円 The autobiography of any great figure is likely to be interesting. Benjamin Franklin's is all the more so in that he not led a memorable life himself (only part of which he covers here), but was a lively observer who spent time in not only in different parts of the young thirteen colonies, but in...

2,321円 Canada’s wild frontierーa land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beautyーcomes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sa...

2,647円 The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significa...