In the 1800s, naturalist John Muir made several trips to the pristine territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, eagles, wolves, and whales.
Take a trip to last century's Alaska through Muir's clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose. He wrote the way he took pictures, with insight, attention, care and genuine feeling. It's a lovely look into
Mills autobiography deals primarily with the life of the mindbut it is a mind which ranks as one of the most remarkable of the nineteenth century. A child prodigy brought to the brink of suicide by th
The last volume in the magnificent saga of Natty Bumppo, in which he is drawn into an involvement with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the outcast Ishmael Bush.
19th-century African American businessman, activist & educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic emp
