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We cannot think of the ocean without remembering the great voyagers and sea-captains, the brave commanders, the pirates, rovers, and buccaneers of bygone days. But much of civilised man's fear is founded on a reasonable knowledge of the seas, sometimes his friend, yet often his foe. Vessel after vessel, fleet after fleet, arrived safely. But there was danger on the sea. The British Empire alone, in one year, lost over 1, 000 vessels. Ravages o...

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, on 7 June. A stopped pocket watch indicated that it occurred around 11:43 AM local time. Known as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and as "one of the wickedest places on Earth", Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the Americas, as well as a common home port for many of the privateers and pirates oper...

The Lone Ranger is a masked former Texas Ranger, named John Reid, who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. Clayton Moore was the most popular Lone Ranger, along with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The Lone Ranger is the sole survivor of a group of six ambushed Texas Ranger pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish. They are betrayed by a civilian guide named Collins, who was secretly w...

The Manhattan Project was a research and development during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs. The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan District as its first headquarters were in Manhattan. The Manhattan ...

Monomoy Station was one of the original nine LLS (life-saving) stations built on the shores of Cape Cod when the Life-Saving Service was extended to these shores in 1873. There is no more dangerous stretch of coast on Cape Cod than off Monomoy Island. Disaster follows disaster and the work of the life savers is attended with the greatest peril at all times. This book "Lifeboats Of Cape Cod - The Monomoy Disaster" delves into the details of his...

Concorde was the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane. It was built jointly by Great Britain and France. The Concorde made its first transatlantic crossing on September 26, 1973, and it inaugurated the world's first scheduled supersonic (SST) passenger service on January 21, 1976 with British Airways initially flying the aircraft from London to Bahrain and Air France flying it from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. The Concorde was f...

A slave for forty years, Thomas H. Jones published his memoir in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom. It became a popular abolitionist pamphlet, revised and reprinted six times from 1855 til 1885. This edition is from the 1850s and includes The Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, a fugitive slave from South Carolina, escaping into the swamps for retribution taken due to his wife's murder by a Mr. Martin. His autobiography, "Exper...

This book, "The Great Smoky Mountains - Recapturing the Past", tells the story of the people who settled and lived in the mountains along the Tennessee and North Carolina border. It describes the introduction of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its historical sites. Also included is the history of the region from the early Cherokee days to settlement by hardy pioneer families and their will to survive in the beautiful but rugged mou...

The Maoris of New Zealand are numerically the most important branch of the Polynesian race which inhabits the islands of the Pacific Ocean. There is no doubt that the race has been greatly influenced by contact with Aryans, and its language, customs, and beliefs all show strong traces of this influence. Tradition states that the race was living in Fiji about a.d. 450. In the year a.d. 650, Ui-te-rangiora, starting from Fiji, made many long adv...

Josiah Edward Spurr led two expeditions of historic importance in Alaska for the United States Geological Survey in 1896 and 1898. In 1896 he led the first expedition to map and chart the interior of Alaska, exploring the Yukon Territory, where gold had been discovered. In 1898 Spurr went down the length of the Kuskokwim River, naming as he traveled previously undiscovered mountains, mountain ranges, creeks, rivers, lakes and glaciers. He made...

New Zealander Tom Neale spent a total of sixteen years alone, in three spells, on the uninhabited Suwarrow coral atoll, half a mile long and three hundred yards wide in the South Pacific. He first went there on October 7, 1952, from Rarotonga, and remained alone until June 24, 1954, when he was taken off ill after a dramatic rescue. The island was two hundred miles from the nearest inhabited island. He returned for a second stay from 1960 - 19...

After missing the west-bound wagon train by two days, the Eastman family embarked alone with their Conestoga wagon in an effort to catch up. Traveling across the prairie at night, they lost the track of the caravan and were attacked by Indians. Father, mother and brother were slain and Edwin Eastman and his wife were taken captive, to live among the Comanches and Apaches for years, learning their ways while enduring hardships and a few good ti...

HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains one of the best-known stories in the history of seafaring. Pandora was partially successful by capturing 14 of the mutineers, but wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on the return voyage in 1791. HMS Pandora is considered to be one of the most signi...

Pioneers Of the American West" comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible even to the painstaking student. It is from among these almost forgotte...

Pioneers Of the American West" comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible even to the painstaking student. It is from among these almost forgotte...

Cicero Rufus (Old Rufe) Perry, Texas Ranger, was not your 'typical' image of a Texas Ranger. He participated in the siege of Bexar, served from July 1 to October 1, 1836, in Capt. William W. Hill's company of Texas Rangers, and was involved in an Indian fight on Yegua Creek. In 1841 he served under Samuel Highsmith and Thomas Green and scouted for Edward Burleson and Mark B. Lewis. He was also a member of the Somervell Expedition. He joined Jo...

Pioneers Of the American West" comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible even to the painstaking student. It is from among these almost forgotte...

Shipwrecked On the FeeJees" is the thrilling account from the log-book of William S. Cary, of Nantucket, the sole survivor of the crew of ship "Oeno", which was wrecked on Turtle Island, in the Pacific Ocean, on the 5th of April, 1825. It is the personal description of the loss of a Nantucket whaleship, the capture and massacre of all but one of the crew, and the incidents of the life of the survivor among the cannibals of the South Sea Island...

In 1905, on the Fort Sill Apache Reservation in Oklahoma, Geronimo agreed to tell his life story to Stephem Melvil Barrett, superintendant of education in Lawton Oklahoma. Geronimo said, "Write what I have spoken." During several sessions, he then told in detail the beginnings of the Apache, his own birth and family, his growing up as an Apache child, his wife, children, and the massacre of them and his mother by Mexicans, which led to a life-...

In 1917 Zane Grey went on a five month hunting and fishing trip into vast areas of the Colorado wilderness. The travel party included his brother R. C. (Romer Carl "Reddy" Grey) and Romer's wife Reba, Dorothy Ackerman, Claire Wilhelm, and Mildred Fergerson. After taking a locomotive train from Denver, on the "Moffat Road" over the Continental Divide to Yampa, with their guide Scott Teague, they traveled by horseback over many high mountain pas...