Overview :William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determ... Read More
Overview :In 1898, Marie Curie first described a phenomenon she called "radioactivity." A half-century later, two physicists would stand before dawn i... Read More
Overview :Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the fligh... Read More
Overview :While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and S... Read More
Overview :Between April 22 and May 31, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but until then it h... Read More
Overview :From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspire... Read More
Overview :Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materiali... Read More