Skilled explorer or overreaching dilettante? Crusading abolitionist or violent murderer? General with the soul of a country on his mind? Or self-centered opportunist only interested in tapping the ...

In the 19th century, biology, physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, geography, and paleontology took off like a rocket, as did social fields like psychology and anthropology. Unfortunately, many ...

In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin ...

But those expeditions in the late 1920s and early 1930s were just a slice of Pluschow's dashing life. It's a great tragedy of history to wonder what towering figures could have done if chance, fate, ...

The perilous catastrophes of one of historys most epic adventures the lost voyage of Columbus The thrilling stories of men like Hudson Ribault and Bering who stopped at nothing to conquer an unknown ...