The director of the Dutch West Indies Company, Johannes de Laet, and the company’s chief cartographer, Hessel Gerritsz, collaborated in producing and publishing early maps of the New World. This depiction of the southeastern region of North America…
This novel is set in the Victorian era, which centers on the lives of people who live on the margins of society. The main protagonist, Honora Charlecote, a disabled spinster, devotes her life to taking care of the orphaned children of her distant…
A first-hand account of the politics, civilian day-to-day life, and military strength and weakness of both the North and South during the Civil War. While the foreign author and war correspondent from the London Times tries to make sense and reason…