This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. W
This brief history of Portugal attempts to not only illuminate the high points of global exploration and empire that most readers are familiar with but, in an examination of the social history and cha
Eberhardt's journal chronicles the daring adventures of a late 19th-century European woman who traveled the Sahara desert disguised as an Arab man and adopted Islam. Includes a glossary. Previously pu
They were born in Liverpool and came of age in Hamburg, but it was London where the Beatles became international icons matched only by the swinging city itself.From the chambers of Abbey Road to the
During the 1980s and 1990s, travel and adventure writer Millman collected stories from Northwest Territories, Baffin Island, northern Quebec, Labrador, and both coasts of Greenland. His goal is to rep
A scholar of children's literature, Bedell has kept the marvelous details of the Icelandic stories, but retained the storyteller's right to fashion them into narratives that appeal today. Translator T
Follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. In this title, Clydend, McNair's Bakery and the surrounding tenements, a