True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started...  Read More >>

An English translation of Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s “Thirteenth Relation,” an early seventeenth-century narrative of...  Read More >>

The gripping true story of bitter rivalries on the high seas, a brilliant 17th-century pirate captain, and the two...  Read More >>

This is the story of Hamish, the most famous Highland bull in the world and one of Scotland's greatest and hairiest...  Read More >>

A dramatic account of the 33 miners of the San Jose mine in Chile by novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...  Read More >>

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A lavishly illustrated guide to sacred wells in Scotland from prehistoric times, pagan and Christian, from the Borders...  Read More >>

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Profiles the grit, determination and selflessness of 11 outstanding Australian women serving in the two World Wars....  Read More >>

A translation of letters written by settlers in the Río de la Plata region of South America during the Spanish conquest...  Read More >>

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A group of Britons had chartered the Russian oceanographic ship, the Mstislav Keldysh, to look for the wrecks of...  Read More >>

From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials...  Read More >>

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Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American...  Read More >>

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From Commanding Officer of the RAF's Aviation Medicine Training Centre and Head of Division at the Institute of...  Read More >>

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The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the...  Read More >>

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Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright...  Read More >>

In 2006 in the Guardian there was a photo of William Butler Yeats receiving the Nobel Prize, and he had exactly...  Read More >>

From 1933 to 1935, Ita Wegman was confronted by both Nazi fascism and internal crises in the General Anthroposophical...  Read More >>