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Castaways On Forbidden Shores

Author: Robert S. Gallagher

The fearless sailors who manned America’s whaling fleet in the nineteenth century were no strangers to danger, but even the bravest trembled at the unknown prospects of becoming castaways on forbidden shores

Damn The Crocodiles—Keep The Cameras Rolling!

Author: Byron Riggan

Surviving encounters with an awesome variety of enraged wildlife—rhinos, lions, tsetse flies, studio brass—Trader Horn, Hollywood’s first jungle spectacular, became the progenitor of hundreds of white-hunter-meets-white-goddess epics

The Purple Mountains’ Fading Majesty

Author: David Lavender

The plundering miners have been replaced by the plundering tourists. Can the Rockies survive this new invasion?

Historian On The Double

Author: John T. Cunningham

The last old soldiers of the Revolution were fast fading away when Benson J. Lossing set out to catch history alive—in 1,100 pictures and 700,000 words

Incident On The Isthmus

Author: John Castillo Kennedy

Back when Panama was a jumping-off place for Eldorado, a piece of melon became a symbol that led to a massacre. Its seeds of anti-Yankee resentment are still bearing fruit

Zip Code-1847

Author: Dudley C. Gordon

1948 Election

Author: Robert Shogan

The President’s popularity was waning, and he was facing an able Republican as well as two rebels from his own party. At hand was the with the nation in peril at home and abroad. Then Harry S.Truman set out to give ’em hell.

Three Cheers For The Cherry, Rinso White, And (pow!) Electric Blue!

Author: Norman Kotter

Oh say can you see Any changes in me?