The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Fantastic 14th-Century Account of a Journey to the East (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)

The Last Explorer

Simon Nasht

Champlain's Dream

David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer, University Professor at Brandeis University, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for Washington’s Crossing , which was also a New York Times bestseller. His other acclaimed books include Albion’s Seed and Paul Revere’s Ride ....

A Short History Of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything is a general science book by Bill Bryson, which explains some areas of science, using a style of language more accessible to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. It was the bestselling popular science book of 2005 in the UK, selling over 300,000 copies. A Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics....