Letter, Diaries

Following his participation in James Cook’s circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how …

The first complete and unexpurgated edition of the war diaries of Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke – the most important and the most controversial military diaries of the modern era.Alanbrooke was CIGS …

Some people believe that fate is predestined. That our futures are already laid out before us and we just follow it blindly, never disrupting the pre-destined path of our lives. They are wrong. …

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army. Over the next four years, he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing …

I felt the need to not only illustrate some biblical events as if they occurred in the present day instead of ancient times but also in the larger sense provoke some food for thought and forum for …

“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion, then I go out and paint the stars.” ‘The Letters of a Post-Impressionist, ‘ published in 1913, is a collection of the personal corre …

‘;From the very first, it seems, fishing was a respite and a therapy along with all of its other potentially redemptive qualities.’ Robert De Mott Spanning more than forty-five years, Angling Days is …

A "poignant" collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus-a town in Indiana-from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times).For countless …

‘Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument’ Observer The final diaries of Che Guevara begin in 1966, when he travelled to Bolivia …

Michelangelo, explain this passage from Dante for us, Leonardo Da Vinci cries out across the piazza, They say hes your favorite poet. Words such as these might have begun a brief interaction between …