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The daughter of a wealthy Australian landowner, Alix defies convention to train as a nurse on the rugged Queensland outback, where her daughter becomes a pilot

Francis Younghusband was an explorer and soldier best known for leading the controversial British military mission to Lhasa, Tibet in 1903-4. In 1886 Younghusba

This Pulitzer Prize–winning work pieces together the lost history of the Mandan Native Americans and their thriving society on the Upper Missouri River. The M

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Literary Nonfiction. THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT is an up close, gritty and personal view, via the Overland Stagecoach, of the American West on the cusp of its f