Tells the story of the terrible hardships endured by explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew when they set out by ship in 1914 to cross Antarctica from one side to the other, and became trapped i…
While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the w…
Listed alphabetically and fully illustrated, the flags of every sovereign state are displayed in this guide, with accompanying statistics on the flag's ratio, its use, date of adoption and date…
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.