Speeches and Writings 1859–1865
10 best books like Speeches and Writings 1859–1865 (Abraham Lincoln): The Last Days of the Incas, Memoirs and Selected Letters, 1421: The Year China Discovered America, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, The Worst Journey in the World
The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. This authoritative, exciting history...
| Author | Ulysses S. Grant |
| ISBN | 0940450585 |
Twenty years after Appomattox, the Civil War’s greatest general fought his last campaign against death and time. Stricken by cancer as his family faced financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure their future, and in doing so won for himself a unique place in American letters....
1421: The Year China Discovered America
On 3/8/1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving...
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
| Author | Eric Foner |
| ISBN | 0393066185 |
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize
In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives...
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
| Author | Dean King |
| ISBN | 0316159352 |
A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples.
In a calm May morning in...
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0375753389 |
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great...
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0606334696 |
In the late 1800s America arraigned a conglomerate of six vessels who set out to map the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Philbrick describes the suffering of the crew, thirst, immobilized in the 'victim's or equatorial regions, and irascible bad tempers. Illness was prevalent.
The worst thing was the lack...
| Author | Robert Falcon Scott |
| ISBN | 0786703822 |
In November 1910, a ship called Terra Nova left New Zealand on its way south to Antarctica. On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard....
The Worst Journey in the World
| Author | Apsley Cherry-Garrard |
| ISBN | 0143039385 |
The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey, draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots...
Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
| Author | Richard Evelyn Byrd |
| ISBN | 1559634634 |
When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
| Author | David Epstein |
| ISBN | 0735214484 |
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
| Author | Michael Smith |
| ISBN | 1848890532 |
The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in Antarctic exploration. He spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton, and outlived both. Among the last to see Scott alive, Crean was in the search party that found the frozen body....
| Author | Lennard Bickel |
| ISBN | 1586420003 |
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion,...
| Author | Ronald C. White Jr. |
| ISBN | 0743212991 |
As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward "Reconstruction"? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage? When Lincoln...
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 0195076060 |
James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest order." In that volume, McPherson gathered...
1861: The Civil War Awakening
| Author | Adam Goodheart |
| ISBN | 1400040159 |
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.
1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring...
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
| Author | William Lee Miller |
| ISBN | 1400041031 |
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American...
