An illustrated edition of the English chronicler's major works is comprised of firsthand dispatches from Virginia and New England, his personal memoirs, and his analyses of the challenges of colonization, in a volume complemented by narrative accounts by other writers on the settlement of Roanoke an[...]

This is Burma, wrote Rudyard Kipling. It is quite unlike any place you know about. How right he was: more than a century later Myanmar remains a world apart. John Allen, Lonely Planet Writer
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D. Moody Smith treats the theology of the Gospel of John in its narrative form and historical context, both ancient Jewish and early Christian. His work draws upon the most recent scholarly investigations of the Gospel’s historical purpose and setting. The major theological themes of the Gospel[...]

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Narrative of John Smith in 1883 when he was just 23, living in Portsmouth and struggling to establish himself as a doctor and a writer. By that time he had succeeded in getting a number of short stories published in leading magazines of the day, such as Blackwood's, All [...]

Huey "Piano" Smith's musical legacy stands alongside that of fellow New Orleans legends Dr. John, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, and Allen Toussaint. His 1957 classic, "Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu," made Billboard's top R&B singles chart, and hundreds of artists including Aerosmith, the G[...]

John Dee was a much respected mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, alchemist and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, but subsequently derided as a conjurer and a trickster. Dee became Queen Elizabeth's trusted advisor on astrological and scientific matters, choosing her coronation date himsel[...]