History

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Sold as a Slave is Equiano's account of his life, one of the great documents of the abolition movement, and a startling, moving story of danger and betrayal. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Jaguars and Electric Eels is Humboldt's epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Across the Empty Quarter charts Thesiger's amazing journey across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire charts Chekhov's journey to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Mary Kingsley's extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Escape from the Antarctic charts Shackleton's epic expedition to reach the South Pole, and his subsequent heroic and terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. One of the most brilliant post-war journalists, this is Kapuscinski's account of decades spent criss-crossing Africa. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Can-Cans, Cats and Cities of Ash is Mark Twain's account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of Europe. More...