The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964. In 1960, as the result of a widespread and increasingly radical pro-independence movement, the Belgian.....

Brief History of the Jessie Harkins The Jessie Harkins was a propeller-driven steamboat that operated on the Columbia River starting in 1903. It was rebuilt at least twice. Originally Jessie Harkins was one of the larger gasoline-engined vessels. Jessie Harkins was built at the Portland Shipbuilding Company for Captain Hosford.....

Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2011. A Fine Hardcover. The interactive book describes the three most important pre-Columbian civilizations in Mesoamerica and how, despite advanced knowledge of mathematics, astronomy and architecture, they eventually disappeared. Topics include language, personal decoration, diet, architecture, city life, sacrificial rites, weaponry, the Maya and Aztec.....

Tokio: Tokio Municipal Office, 1915. A promotional piece produced for the Panama Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California in 1915.Background Information:The Panama–Pacific International Exposition was a world's fair United States, from February 20 to December 4, 1915. Its stated purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama.....

[San Francisco]: Sunset Press, 1901. An early photo view-book of YosemiteBackground Information:Yosemite National Park is an American national park in the state of California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and.....

London: Alabaster, Passmore & Sons, 1918. 1st Edition. A Very Good Soft cover. An anonymous narrative of the situation, treatment and numerous persons are named.

U.S.A. Stein and Day, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, was a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various militias acting from within Lebanon. The.....

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This vivid and and comprehensive account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest lays bare the patterns of everyday life, and increases our.....

New York: Warner Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Interweaving mythology, history, science, and mystical cultures, an archaeologist offers a feminine approach to the study of world history, examining an array of female warriors, leaders, and heroines who have been left out of.....

USA: Xlibris, Corp. 2010. A Fine Soft cover. The Incomplete Traveler is a human story of strength and grit in the face of a series of historical events that lead to the loss of a homeland, and the need to adapt to life in exile.The history of the Fidel Castro.....

New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.

New York: John Murray, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. A classic of travel literature, describing the 1879 expedition across the Nejd from Beirut, south into the Great Nefud, north to Baghdad and east to the Arabian Gulf, undertaken by Anne Blunt and her husband Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.....

Paris: A. Hiard, 1836. Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet was a French bishop and theologian renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a master French stylist. Court preacher to Louis XIV of France, Bossuet.....