anecdotes

Jim Burnett chronicles some of the more exciting experiences he has had during his thirty-year career as a National Park Service ranger.

Traces the stories behind inventions, their marketing, and the companies that shape our lives.

Describes humorous and bizarre moments that took place during the Civil War, and includes twenty black-and-white illustrations.

A collection of anecdotes about the animals that have inhabited Bedlam Farm and with whom the author has found kinship.

Constance Bowman and Clara Marie Allen describe their summer of 1943, when they--middle-class art and English teachers at San Diego High School--went to work assembling B-24 bombers, known as Liberators, for the war.

Chronicles the history of the American Navy from the Revolutionary War to the present day, profiling the influential figures, ships, and battles from every era.