A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided ...Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U. S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict.

A journalist leads readers on a revealing journey through the Old South, tangling with the forces of white rage, rebel grit, and regional pride in places where the Civil War is more than a memory.

Product Description: On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university a history major, no less! he s reached middle age with a third-grader s grasp of early America...read more

Product Description: Stripped naked and pursued across cactus-studded plains by a band of armed Blackfoot Indians, John Colter escaped certain death to become the one of the most durable characters in western American history. But Colter's harrowing tale was not beyond the ordinary when compared to the adventures of other American explorers...read more

Brings together capsule profiles of fifty American adventurers who braved dangerous challenges and extreme elements, from John Ledyard, the first American to see the Pacific Northwest; to Lisha Kent Kane, who discovered a scurvy remedy while icebound off of Ellesmere Island. (Biography)

Product Description: James Cook's three epic journey's in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. When he embarked for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in 1779, Cook had explored more of the earth's surface than anyone in history...read more

Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 were the last great voyages of discovery. Sailing some 170,000 miles, Cook's ships reached every continent and every ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Kamchatka to Java to Easter Island to the coast of Oregon. This work retraces the great voyages of Captain James Cook.

A freelance journalist describes his hitchhiking journey across seven thousand miles of Australia's barren outback, recalling the Aborigines, con men, card sharks, pearl divers, and other travelers he encountered along the way. Rerpint. 12,500 first printing.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist leads readers on a high-spirited, revealing journey through the Old South, tangling with the forces of white rage, rebel grit, and regional pride in places where the Civil War is more than a memory. Book available.

A journalist chronicles his travels throughout the Middle East, discussing Cairo's seedy nightclubs, paid assassins in Libya, a mourner at the Ayatollah's funeral, and more. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT. (view table of contents)

A freelance journalist describes his hitchhiking journey across seven thousand miles of Australia's barren outback, recalling the Aborigines, con men, card sharks, pearl divers, and other travellers encountered along the way