Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North America Arctic 9781504029162, 150402916X

First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought—and found—a great diamond mine on

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This is a wide-ranging inquiry into the forces that define the nations of North America and that, through convergence, a

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Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades – the sequence

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J.C.H. King is responsible for the North American collection, Department of Ethnography, the British Museum. Birgit Pauk

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Historians have traditionally approached North America through the lens of the nation-state rather than from a continent

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Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps a

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A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all si

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Delve into this fascinating appreciation of milkweed, an often-overlooked plant, and discover an amazing range of insect

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In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsuppo

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In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow

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