homes and haunts

Presents a history of George Washington's home, as it was when he lived there to its current status as a historic site.

This is a history of Monticello, the Virginia country estate, which Thomas Jefferson designed and built as his primary residence.

Presents an overview of life in fourteenth-century England as historical context for Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," covering the social hierarchy and social mobility, views of the Church, warfare and rebellion, the Black Death, the Earth-centered universe and science, medicine, food, work, clothing, courtship, family, schooling, and recreation.

The author tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.

The author presents a personal portrait of Barcelona and its two-thousand-year history and weaves politics, food, architecture, sports, myth, and music into a depiction of the Catalan seaport.

The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted son.

Examines a number of landscapes and towns of California and how they influenced the writing of John Steinbeck.

Describes what a visitor to Chicago in 1929 would find to see and do, including providing references to famous gangster activities and haunts.

The author describes growing up in a mill town in northern England where Jews lived on one side of the street and Christians lived on the other side.