Henry Carter Hull

In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...

Looks at the kingdoms of ancient Turkey, using archeological sites, artifacts, photographs, and drawings to illustrate the lost civilizations.

A photographic exploration of the wonders of Africa, traveling by Land Cruiser, camel, dwhow, and on foot through twelve countries in an attempt to answer questions about what modern African-Americans have in common with their African ancestors, and to discover what Africans have contributed to civilization.

Survey of the people and cultural traditions of the Indian sub-continent, from ancient civilizations through modern times, with color maps, illustrations, essays on key topics, glossary, bibliography, and gazetteer.

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.

In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were...

A collection of essays that provide information about the ancient Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Rome, covering the topics of women and family life, literary and performing arts, philosophy, and the visual arts, and including a discussion of the progress of classical scholarship.

Tells the dramatic history of Byzantium from its beginnings in AD 330 when Constantine the Great moved the imperial capital from Rome to the site of an old Greek port in Asia Minor called Buzantium and renamed it Constantinople, to its rise as the first and most long-lasting Christian empire, to its final heroic days and eventual defeat by the Turks in 1453.