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History and Current Events June 2024
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| A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony BaleHistorian Anthony Bale's fast-paced and engaging chronicle utilizes medieval travel guides and firsthand accounts to reveal how Europeans navigated the perils and pleasures of travel from the 10th to the 15th centuries. Try this next: The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry. |
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| Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay DolinBestselling maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin's suspenseful latest chronicles a fateful skirmish between an American sealing expedition and a British convict ship during the War of 1812 that left five castaways stranded on the Falkland Islands for 534 days. For fans of: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. |
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After 1177 B.C. : the survival of civilizations
by Eric H. Cline
In this gripping sequel to his best-selling "1177 B.C.," Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones and why some disappeared forever. Simultaneous eBook.
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Native nations : a millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal
An award-winning historian tells the story of the Native nations, from the rise of ancient cities to the present, reframing North American history with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center and showing how the influence of Native peoples remained a constant and will continue far into the future.
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| The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of... by Hampton SidesHistorian Hampton Sides' compelling, you-are-there latest offers an atmospheric account of controversial British cartographer James Cook's final Pacific voyage, which began in 1776 and ended three years later when he was killed by a group of Native Hawaiians whom he had exploited. Try this next: The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth by Adam Goodheart. |
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