King, Dean

"In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course of the rest of his life. Upon their arrival the men are confronted with a shocking vision, as predatory mining, tourism, and logging industries have plundered and defaced "the grandest of all the special temples of Nature."--Provided by publisher.

Recounts the journey more than eighty-six thousand Red Army soldiers took across China in 1934 in the hopes of escaping Nationalist forces, describing the brutal conditions they faced on the four thousand-mile march.

Presents the voices of the officers and seaman who fought and lived at sea during the French Revolutionary war (1793-1802), the Napoleonic War (1803-1815), abd the war of 1812 (1812-1815).

In 1815, the merchant ship, Commerce in Connecticut, with a crew of twelve men, set sail for the Cape Verde Islands after a brief stopover in Gibraltar. Weather and unfamiliar surroundings caused the ship to wreck on the inhospitable coast of Mauretania. Taken as slaves by regional nomads and separated (some never to be seen again), the twelve sailors endured great hardships. The book is based on an account of Captain Riley's ordeal: nine weeks of captivity, traveling inland nearly 800 miles, and finally to Morocco where he was ransomed by an American consul.

Details the over one-hundred-year-long feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, covering the influence of the Civil War on the families, kidnapping, murders, legal battles, and more.