The book opens with a biography by Peter's wife, the Reverend Vicky Cullen, offering the reader an insight into Peter's personal life and the influ...

In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble ov...

This book offers information on the President's early education, professional career, military service or political service prior to the presidency...

List of Figures; Preface; Wind power and wind-gods; An episode in Rǫgnvalds páttr ok Rauðs; Three beard-clutching figures; The Eyrarland image; Con...

Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in e...

The elders in this book have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they ...

Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent home...

Contents: Preface; Chronology; Introduction; Note on the Text; The Saga Of Gisli; The Saga Of Grettir & The Saga Of Hord; Text Summaries; Genea...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...

Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in U...

The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2...

When Through the Mackenzie Basin was published in 1908, it became an immediate success as an adventure book on the unsettled regions of Northwest C...

An annotated and illustrated Thucydides reader containing passages from books I-VIII of the Histories with introductory material for all eight book...

The work of Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War has not only decisively influenced our notion of history up until the present day; the complexity o...

Germany's Tiger tank, whether in the form of the Tiger I or later Tiger II (King Tiger), was the most feared tank of WWII. Despite production total...

A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain rela...

This book is a visual exploration of Ancestral Pueblo sites at Chacon Canyon and its extension throughout the San Juan Basin into the northern reac...

A fascinating pictorial history of North Vancouver city and district in British Columbia, covering over 90 locations scattered around the length an...

I can’t visualise us getting out of this, but I want to TRY to believe in a future, wrote 23-year-old Barbara Anslow (then Redwood) in her diary on...

This book contains unique and important information on offices, ethnic attitudes and administrative developments in Iran's Safavid government (1495...

The Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast carved interior house posts, portal entrances and free standing totem poles with crests of animals, sea ...

This book contains the daily logs kept by Columbus -- himself, and by Magellan's scribe, Antonio Pigafetta, on their fateful voyages to the unknown...

Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and a...

This book gives a glimpse of Saint Dominic and fteen other blessed or canonized Dominicans who lived over the period until the twentieth century. W...

This book gives a glimpse of Saint Dominic and fteen other blessed or canonized Dominicans who lived over the period until the twentieth century. W...

Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris's writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to schola...

Analyses the politico-economic effects of Germany's policy towards Greece leading up to occupation in 1941. Looking in particular at the trade in t...

In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in...

This volume contains papers by germanists, historians, and art historians on visual and conceptual aspects of early modern city culture ranging fro...

The contributions of the conference of the same name at the University of the South in Tennessee, USA, examine the relationship between the impact ...

Between 1942 and 1945, Torres Strait Islander women experienced the fears and uncertainties of living virtually on Australia's front line during th...