In 1845, British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786¿1847) embarked on...

First published in 1944, this volume contains Louis A. Sigand's biography of Belle Boyd, the famo...

'Napoleon the Little' is a fascinating biographical analysis of the life and deeds of Napoleon II...

First published in 1944, this volume contains Louis A. Sigand's biography of Belle Boyd, the famo...

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856¿1915) was an American author, orator, educator, and adviser to...

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858¿1939) was a Santee Dakota writer, physician, lecturer, and reform...

Written shortly after the Norman conquest, Monmouth's ¿Histories of the Kings of Britain¿ attempt...

First published in 1917, ¿The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents¿ contains...

'The Last of the Mayflower' is a 1920 work by James Rendel Harris that looks at the fate of the '...

The fascinating and moving memoirs of American slaves, William and Ellen Craft. First published i...

¿The Black Baron - The Strange Life of Gilles De Rais¿ is Tennille Dix's 1930 biography of Gilles...

The North-West Passage had thwarted the attempts of many expeditions by the mid nineteenth centur...