42 books in History - America (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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River of Darkness
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $27.00
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $27.00
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
River of Darkness
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $15.99
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $15.99
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541... Read more >
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
Written by Thomas Powers
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $11.99
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century.
The... Read more >
Written by Thomas Powers
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $11.99
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century.
The... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
Written by Thomas Powers
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $30.00
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century.
The... Read more >
Written by Thomas Powers
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $30.00
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century.
The... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Written by Anthony Brandt
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $13.99
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Written by Anthony Brandt
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $13.99
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound...
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unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.
It was a moment unique in human history... Read more >
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.
It was a moment unique in human history... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Panama Fever
The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Written by Matthew Parker
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $17.95
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers... Read more >
The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Written by Matthew Parker
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $17.95
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Panama Fever
The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Written by Matthew Parker
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $13.99
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers... Read more >
The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Written by Matthew Parker
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $13.99
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.99
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.
“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured... Read more >
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.99
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.
“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
It is easy to shrink from our country’s brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation’s closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thousands of victims in the decades between the 1880s and the Second World War, and leaves invisible but deep... Read more >
The Lynching of Black America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
It is easy to shrink from our country’s brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation’s closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thousands of victims in the decades between the 1880s and the Second World War, and leaves invisible but deep... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Oregon Trail
An American Saga
Written by David Dary
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $21.99
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David... Read more >
An American Saga
Written by David Dary
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $21.99
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David... Read more >
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Saving the Race
Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls
Written by Rebecca Carroll
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $2.99
W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” a prophecy that is as fresh and poignant today as when it... Read more >
Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls
Written by Rebecca Carroll
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $2.99
W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” a prophecy that is as fresh and poignant today as when it... Read more >
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To Begin the World Anew
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Written by Bernard Bailyn
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their extraordinary creativity.
The opening essay illuminates the central importance of America’s provincialism... Read more >
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Written by Bernard Bailyn
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their extraordinary creativity.
The opening essay illuminates the central importance of America’s provincialism... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Americas
A Hemispheric History
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2006
Price: $14.00
In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth, and his trademark wit, Fernández-Armesto covers... Read more >
A Hemispheric History
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2006
Price: $14.00
In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth, and his trademark wit, Fernández-Armesto covers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Capoeira
The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace
Written by Gerard Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2005
Price: $24.95
The first in a two-volume series on capoeira, Volume One traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance form from the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas in the 1500s to the early years of the Brazilian Republic in the 20th century. Focusing on the people and... Read more >
The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace
Written by Gerard Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2005
Price: $24.95
The first in a two-volume series on capoeira, Volume One traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance form from the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas in the 1500s to the early years of the Brazilian Republic in the 20th century. Focusing on the people and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Secret in Building 26
The Untold Story of America's Ultra War Against the U-boat Enigma Codes
Written by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2004
Price: $13.99
For the first time, the inside story of the brilliant American engineer who defeated Enigma and the Nazi code-masters
Much has been written about the success of the British “Ultra” program in cracking the Germans’ Enigma code early in World War II, but few know what really happened in 1942, when the... Read more >
The Untold Story of America's Ultra War Against the U-boat Enigma Codes
Written by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2004
Price: $13.99
For the first time, the inside story of the brilliant American engineer who defeated Enigma and the Nazi code-masters
Much has been written about the success of the British “Ultra” program in cracking the Germans’ Enigma code early in World War II, but few know what really happened in 1942, when the... Read more >
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To Begin the World Anew
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Written by Bernard Bailyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 204 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their extraordinary creativity.
The opening essay illuminates the central importance of America’s provincialism... Read more >
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Written by Bernard Bailyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 204 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their extraordinary creativity.
The opening essay illuminates the central importance of America’s provincialism... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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