An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was there.

The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill...

Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics.

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of...

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve...

This is a guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not “properly”) create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters...

W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-1085...

Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and sometimes...

Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was...

This book is one of the earliest studies of Philippine history by an American scholar. In preparation for this book, the author conducted...

Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying “Dr Livingstone, i Presume?”. Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United States at the...

A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne – a story of...