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Lost Treasures: Civilization's Great Riches Rediscovered
Jane McIntosh.
Publisher: Carlton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781847322999.  Daedalus Item Code: 12106
 
Beautifully illustrated with more than 250 captioned color photographs and reproductions of art, this book surveys the treasures of the world that have been sunk, buried, entombed, and otherwise ... (Read More)
 
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Love and War in the Pyrenees: A Story of Courage, Fear and Hope, 1939–1944
Rosemary Bailey.
Publisher: Phoenix.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780753825914.  Daedalus Item Code: 31305
 
What was life like for the French living in the Pyrenees, as refugees from World War II poured through their region seeking freedom? A British journalist who settled in the area, Rosemary Bailey here ... (Read More)
 
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Sarah Bradford.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143035954.  Daedalus Item Code: 31105
 
The biographer of Queen Elizabeth II and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis here tackles the much-besmirched life of Lucrezia Borgia, simultaneously one of the most celebrated and vilified women of ... (Read More)
 
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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
Nick Bunker.
Publisher: Bodley Head.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780224081382.  Daedalus Item Code: 22009
 
In a homeland charged with fear and expectation amid deep economic depression, the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, at once evangelicals and entrepreneurs. ... (Read More)
 
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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
Nick Bunker.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307266828.  Daedalus Item Code: 21737
 
The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs and political radicals as much as they were Christian reformers and idealists. Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built a thriving settlement at New ... (Read More)
 
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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Anthony Brandt.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307263926.  Daedalus Item Code: 21661
 
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the 16th century: find the fabled Northwest ... (Read More)
 
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Mankind: The Story of All of Us
Pamela D. Toler. Ian Morris, foreword.
Publisher: Running Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780762447039.  Daedalus Item Code: 31736
 
This companion volume to the History Channel television series of the same name presents a sweeping history of humankind, from hunting antelope in Africa's Rift Valley more than a million years ago ... (Read More)
 
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Marco Polo's Silk Road: The Art of the Journey, an Italian at the Court of Kublai Khan
John Masefield, intro.
Publisher: Watkins.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781780280158.  Daedalus Item Code: 31316
 
In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated the story of his amazing 20-year travels through Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and particularly China, where he became an ... (Read More)
 
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Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Tristram Hunt.
Publisher: Metropolitan.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780805092486.  Daedalus Item Code: 21705
 
"'It all began over drinks,' [Tristram] Hunt writes of the forty-year collaboration between Karl Marx and his benefactor, ghostwriter, and best friend, Friedrich Engels. Engels's life was defined by ... (Read More)
 
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A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II
Richard Snow.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416591108.  Daedalus Item Code: 20930
 
Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, the German U-boat campaign was "the only thing that ever really frightened me ... this shapeless, measureless peril, ... (Read More)
 
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Asti Hustvedt.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393025606.  Daedalus Item Code: 23885
 
Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève were each admitted to the hysteria ward of the Salpêtrière Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. ... (Read More)
 
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Medieval Sieges and Siegecraft
Geoffrey Hindley.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781602396333.  Daedalus Item Code: 22417
 
In this vivid reconstruction of siege warfare in the medieval world, with detailed descriptions of weapons and tactics, Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle. The ... (Read More)
 
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