That I have been able to penetrate into part of [South America's] unexplored interior, and visit tribes of people hitherto untouched and unknown, was urged ...

This classic survey of one of the most dramatic eras in American history is most notable, perhaps, for the insight it offers into the mindset of the era ...

This curious book, first published in 1853, offers "sketches and anecdotes illustrative of life on the wild borders of the Pacific and of the savage tribes" ...

"For the use of students and travelers," insisted the subtitle of the first publication of this wonderful book, in 1887, and it's easy to imagine the likes ...

A feast was not a feast without more than plenty. Eating was always in order. An offer of a dish was as good as a command to partake. A refusal bordered ...

Never before in the history of the world has any group of men held the opportunity to serve their communities and to serve their countries as is offered ...

This renowned biography of the great Catholic saint, famous for converting Ireland to Christianity, is also a stunningly vivid portrait of life in the ...

Despite its rather staid subtitle-"Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life ...

A Traveler at Forty ".rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary ...

First published in 1867, Capital, or Das Kapital, is the infamous treatise on economics and capitalism by Prussian revolutionary KARL MARX (1818-1883) ...