Sir Walter Raleigh is a well-researched, highly readable biography of one of British history's pivotal figures. Said the author: "A life of Walter Raleigh inevitably is a history of England in Raleigh's time, for the man had something to do with practically every event of importance: social, military, naval, or political, while he was at court." Thus, an eventful history of an eventful life.
Embark on a thrilling journey with prolific pulp fiction author Donald Barr Chidsey's timeless series featuring the indomitable Miami cop Sgt. Wentworth L. McGarvey and his trusty sidekick, Detective Morton. Originally published in Detective Fiction Weekly in the late 1930s, this long-running series captured the imagination of readers across over 30 installments. Now, for the first time in book form, experience the gripping tales of crime and ...
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Prolific pulp fiction author Donald Barr Chidsey's long-running series about hard-boiled Miami cop Sgt. Wentworth L. McGarvey and his sidekick, Detective Morton, was one of the most popular series to see print in Detective Fiction Weekly magazine in the late 1930s, running over 30 installments. Never before in book form, the Morton & McGarvey series is finally collected in order, along with the original pulp magazine illustrations. Volume 1 co...
Donald Barr Chidsey's classic work discusses the ideological conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and its effect on the development of the newly created United States of America.
Johnny Lamb couldn't stop living long enough to clear his name of a murder charge in Connecticut. Instead, he took a whaling ship and wound up in the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii) not only as a successful merchant of goods and liquor but a common-law king to the reigning Queen Kaahumanu. He had a superb lust for life which he rarely denied, but he had respect for people, their rights, and their beliefs. He had become informal lord of th...
A full-length story of the life and adventurous career of Prince Chrles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender.A portrait of a man whose charm and daring made him, for a time, the most romantic figure in Europe.
Louisiana Purchase examines the personalities and events that contributed to America's acquisition of the Louisiana territory and discusses its economic and political impact on the nation. By Donald Barr Chidsey, one of the most popular history writers of his generation.
Toby Franklin was careful in business and even in love, but he was under orders, so what could he do when the respectable merchant to whom he was indentured told him to go as supercargo on the ship Adventure Galley, bound for Madagascar and commanded by none other than the notorious Captain Kidd?Kidd, of course, was no ordinary pirate, and his character, as Toby was to discover, was not exactly as reported or recorded. But the voyage he embark...
A story of friendship, a friendship that stands the strain of desertion, of betrayal, of awareness of littleness-and even at the close, when murder has been done, something survives. A story too of two youths against the times-the scene is Stonington, Connecticut, during the embargo and the War of 1812, of adventure sought in secret piloting of ships running the blockade, of the temptation to seek wider horizons pitted against affection and lo...
A vivid, hour-by-hour account of the events leading to the most dramatic decision in American history-the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The author re-creates the people, the actions, the entire scene so well that you perspire in the heat of the humid July weather in Philadelphia, wait in breathless anticipation for the arrival of a crucial Delaware delagate, cringe with Jefferson as his manuscript is freely edited by the entire C...
The politics of royal matrimony are the central thread of the life of the Virgin Queen. But this vivid portrail of Elizabeth I encompases that extravagant, exuberant age to which she gave her name, as well as her personal life. Figures in this pageant are her father, Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Philip of Spain, her great courtiers and favorites, Essex, Drake, Raleigh, and the rest, and her many enemies.
