diaries

Provides a history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, including excerpts from journals that Lewis and Clark kept during the journey, and describes how historical documents such as these can be restored and preserved.

Follows the voyages of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept of his travels.

Contains excerpts from the journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, featuring entries from 1820 to 1842 that reflect his personal life, beliefs, inspirations, and inner thoughts.

Presents excerpts from the diary of Iraqi artist Nuha Al-Radi in which she chronicles events in her country and in exile from the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 to the start of the U.S. war on Iraq in 2003.

Contains selections from the diary of sixteenth-century English diarist and civil servant Samuel Pepys, written between 1660 and 1669, a period that encompassed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague, and the burning of London.

Chronicles the efforts of seventeenth-century explorer Padre Diego Rivadeneira to find and transport a fortune in gold to Spain, explaining how his first two ships were destroyed, what he was carrying when they sank, how twentieth century divers found the wreck, and what they are doing to preserve it.

Presents an abridgment of the log of the ship "Santa Maria" from Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World; and features illustrations.

The real diary of Nadja Halilbegovich, a twelve-year-old in Sarajevo, written during the siege of her city from 1992 to 1995. Discusses the everyday struggle of her community as they tried to live normal lives while forced to scrounge for basic necessities and safety. The diary includes her childhood journal, her artwork, photographs from the war, as well as comments from the author looking back as a young woman.