Tim Jerome
From New York Times best-selling author Laurence Bergreen comes a mesmerizing new account of Christopher Columbus. In rich detail Bergreen re-creates each of the explorer's four voyages and the historical background of his controversial career. Drawing on the vivid descriptions of contemporaneous journals, this breathtaking account will appeal to readers of Bergreen's previous biographies and to fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester,
...Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's groundbreaking When Elephants Weep explored emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he reveals startling evidence that barnyard creatures have complex feelings too, among them, love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief, and sorrow. Weaving history, literature, science, and his own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens, Masson bears witness to the
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