In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Hundreds of whites were killed. Women were taken captive. Taken captive by the Sioux, Judith Raveling is given to Scarlet Plume, one of the many warriors who know their cause is lost. Caught between the men who would wage war ruthlessly and his own judgment, which tells him how dearly the Sioux will pay for every white person killed, Scarlet Plume tries to sa ...
In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and – toward the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey backyards, hiking through lost 'mountains,' and eventually some physical therapy – he evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade boat. He recounts a Brooklyn historian' ...
Koln im Spatmittelalter. Alyss ist mit dem Weinhandler Arndt van Doorne verheiratet und arbeitet im gemeinsamen Weinkontor. Als Alyss' Schwager Robert einem Raubmord zum Opfer fallt, beginnt die junge Frau zu ermitteln. Haben die in der Stadt kursierenden Geruchte uber den Handel mit geschmuggeltem Tuch etwas mit Roberts Tod zu tun? Die Bestseller-Autorin Andrea Schacht fuhrt ihre erfolgreichen Beginen-Romane um Almut Bossart und Ivo vom Sp ...
Wenn nach dem ganzen Weihnachtstrubel alle gemutlich zusammen hocken, werden so manche Geschichten erzahlt. Da hoasts dann oft, " ja fruher war alles anders, besser! Aber war die guade alte Zeit wirklich besser? Freilich, da hie? es no ned Zuckerflash wenn die Kinder mal zvui Su?igkeiten gegessen haben .. Und vielleicht wars a no ned so hektisch in der Vorweihnachtszeit. Schnell no alle Geschenke kaffa" ham ma a alles? " ham ma koan vergessen? ...
Фредерик Рюйш – голландский анатом и судебный медик XVII – начала XVIII века, который видел в смерти эстетику и создал уникальную коллекцию, давшую начало знаменитому собранию петербургской Кунсткамеры. Всю свою жизнь доктор Рюйш посвятил экспериментам с мертвой плотью и создал рецепт, позволяющий его анатомическим препаратам и бальзамированным трупам храниться вечно. Просвещенный и любопытный царь Петр Первый не единожды посещал анатомический т ...
•Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to ...
When two thousand British bank clerks, butchers, housewives, saleswomen, remittance men and ex-Boer War soldiers followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister, Isaac Barr, to the Canadian prairies in 1903 their rallying cry was “Canada for the British.”Despite the Canadian government’s expectations and Barr’s assurances, however, very few of the colonists knew anything about farming. As the granddaug ...
The first women archaeologists were Victorian era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it. Canvas tents were their domains, hot Middle Eastern deserts their gardens of inquiry and labor. Thanks to them, prevailing ideas about feminine nature — soft, nurturing, submissive — were upended. Ladies of the Field tells the story of seven remarkable women, each a pioneering archaeologist, each headstrong, smart, and cou ...