150円 "THERE is no more agreeable mode of passing a day, and thereby breaking in upon the tedium of a long summer's residence in Charleston, than taking advantage occasionally of the opportunity now afforded for a weekly excursion on Cooper River….." So begins this wonderful reminiscence of South Carol...

301円 This is Part 2 of a historical collection of rare photos and true stories about the tracks, trains and trainmen of the Pacific Northwest…including Northern California. Railroading is the massive Mallet and the caboose hop. It is the lonely track walker, the roundhouse rumors, the water tender, th...

604円 The personal factors behind the great inventions and discoveries that change the world are often overlooked, to history's loss, and nowhere has this been more true than in the case of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor, experimenter in genetics and aerodynamics, great-hearted friend and teacher of t...

150円 This book, first published in its present form 1951, is a collection of reminiscences by Isaac Jefferson, a tinsmith, blacksmith, and nailer at Monticello, and valued, enslaved artisan of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. In the 1840 census he was recorded as Isaac Granger, a free man working in P...

773円 First published in 1927, this is the acclaimed biography of Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), the American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker best known for his support of the abolition of slavery. It was written by former American diplomat, journalist, author and humanitarian...

756円 First published in 1934, this is a biography of Prince Eugene of Savoy (18 October 1663 - 21 April 1736), one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history. Born in Paris, he grew up around the French court of King Louis XIV. Initially prepared for a career in the church, ...

756円 Dramatically, from personal acquaintance and Lewis's own files, Saul Alinsky writes here the inside story of one of the most powerful men in America. Its revelations of why Lewis broke with Roosevelt, of why he fought with the AF of L to form the CIO, of the birth of the sit-down strikes, of the ...

604円 Begun in 1914 and first published in 1927, these are the memoirs of General Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, a British Army officer who served, in the Sudan, Ireland and most notably the Second Boer War. He draws upon his reminiscences with the aid of correspondence with various members of his famil...

773円 'A just biography of an important figureーpolitical philosopher, soldier in three wars, scientist, statesmanーJan Smuts, who has played a long and decisive role in the formation and consolidation of South Africa. Masterful, energetic, intolerant, often highhanded, Smuts has never been a popular l...

453円 Originally published in 1950, this is a comprehensive account of the peaks and troughs of migrations to America, beginning with its original formation of the nation through to the influx of Displaced Persons. Relating the American migrations to great movements in world history on the one hand, an...

756円 Since human time first began, men have needed to cross streams and valleys, span chasms and torrentsーand have found ways of getting to the other side. In this sweeping historic survey, Joseph Gies, author of Adventure Underground: The Story of the World's Great Tunnels, recounts for our pleasure...

453円 Following on from the first in this series, No High Adobe, which was published in 1950, in this 1952 follow-up, Adobe Doorways, author Dorothy L. Pillsbury takes the reader on a journey into the heartーand often the soulーof Northern New Mexico. We visit Teronrio Flat, as well as friends in the I...