History of other lands books

Good Company is a vivid and compelling story of life in early twentieth-century Alaska. From the lean years of the...  Read More >>

Islam is widely perceived as a stern and unbending religion, but its roots and very raison d’être lie in a diametrically...  Read More >>

The Canadian landscape is home to some pretty odd sights; for example, the UFO landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta,...  Read More >>

Dictators are not new phenomena, but within the past two centuries they have dramatically proliferated not only...  Read More >>

With chronological chapters featuring emblematic Arctic explorers - including Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, and...  Read More >>

Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community...  Read More >>

These women have never followed the rules. From the earliest days of Canada's history to the newspaper headlines...  Read More >>

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During the 1980s, when the Dominican Republic was largely unheard of, Peter Lane taught there in a school run by...  Read More >>

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""First published in GReat Britain by Constable and Co. Ltd. 1922""--Title page verso  Read More >>

A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without the Historical Dictionary of the Discovery...  Read More >>

In this powerful and moving biography of one of the greatest labor leaders in the history of America, students come...  Read More >>

Joseph Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand...  Read More >>

Joseph Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand...  Read More >>

Fidget is a young peregrine falcon eager to try out her newly feathered wings. She and her brother, Echo, have been...  Read More >>

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In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often...  Read More >>

A beautiful, fully illustated edition of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's wonderful record of the Worst Journey in the World....  Read More >>

The companion volume to Scott's The Voyage of the Discovery. Here is Captain R.F. Scott's dramatic journal of his...  Read More >>

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Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account...  Read More >>

Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account...  Read More >>

The dean of Cold War historians (New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation...  Read More >>

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