First published in 1908, A Short History of The United States by Edward Channing aims to provide a compact and concise account of the events that went...
The Comic History of England was published posthumously in 1896 after the writer's tragic and untimely death half-way through the project. Hence it re...
Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first discovery wa...
Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in one of the p...
New Atlantis is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a...
Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of technology now common through the world. While some of the inventi...
Volume II of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This second volume supplements the f...
Volume III of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This third volume covers the discov...
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though an audioboo...
The puzzle of archeology is how to tell that story, just from the discovery of the traces you leave behind. Literally hundreds of thousands of artifac...
The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic manner, but instead the attempt ha...
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) by Sir Thomas Browne is a spiritual testament and early psychological self-portrait. Published in 1643 after...
A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It is a young girl's diary, in wh...
This novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining enginee...
In 1876, Johnson Chestnut Whittaker another African American, was admitted to the academy. But one day he was discovered beaten, bound and unconscious...
It tells the story of Dickie Harding, a disabled boy, who one day accidentally discovers an old magic, that allows him to travel into his own past. Th...
Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry gods lived. They dare...
Mopsa the Fairy, written in 1869 is one of her more enduring stories. It is a delightful fantasy about a young boy who discovers a nest of young fair...
That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists mu...
The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice. Her story is told against...
The Constitution of the Athenians, also called the Athenian Constitution is a work by Aristotle or one of his students. The work describes the constit...
This is a lovely story of a disillusioned old woman who rediscovers that the Christmas Spirit can be found in many guises, and can work in many ways f...
The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century marked a new era in the study of physics. It seemed as though everything that was thought to be...
