History
The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
Hardback
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Hardback
A Pulitzer Prize winner's masterful history of the American Civil War and its reverberations across the continent
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Hardback
A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
Hardback
A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pioneers or imperial power but by sheer mayhem
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Hardback
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation and the desperate struggle for survival