The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo

10 best books like The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo (Daniel Liebowitz): Salt: A World History, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, Kill Shot, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia, Nine Tomorrows, The Reformation: A History, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580, Walking the Nile, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Salt: A World History

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0142001619

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World

In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story...

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Author	Immaculée Ilibagiza
ISBN	1401908977

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly...

Kill Shot

Author	Vince Flynn
ISBN	1416595201

#1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—now a major motion picture

Vince Flynn’s intensely suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller puts the young, hungry, and lethal superagent of American Assassin in the crosshairs even as he kills with impunity.

In the...

A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

Author	Victor Davis Hanson
ISBN	0812969707

Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other....

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia

Author	Karl E. Meyer
ISBN	0465045766

From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain...

Nine Tomorrows

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0345346041

Isaac Asimov may very well be the most prolific author in modern history. With over 500 books to his credit (506, to be exact...go to asimovonline.com for the full list, if you don't believe me!), covering just about every subject in the Dewey Decimal System (except philosophy, I believe), the man was...

The Reformation: A History

Author

Diarmaid MacCulloch

At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles...

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580

Author	R. Samuel Bawlf
ISBN	0802714056

On September 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth Harbor on the southwest coast of England. He had long been given up for lost, and rumors quickly circulated about where he had been on his three-year round-the-world voyage, and about the plunder he had brought home...

Walking the Nile

Author	Levison Wood
ISBN	1471135667

A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller
His journey is 4,250 miles long.
He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers.
He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis.
He...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Author

Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde were good news for the world. Really. Not convinced? Consider the following:

1. Genghis Khan was an advocate of human rights, specifically freedom of religion, freedom from torture and free trade (he got two of the Four Freedoms right, which is pretty impressive...