This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greates

When 14 year old Haakon Haakonsen became ship's boy on the Flora, he wanted to earn money to save his family's farm in Norway. He never dreamed of the adventure

Shipwrecks as a window on the history of globalization

Superb full-color photographs of submerged wrecks and their lost cargoes and treasures offer a unique "eyewitness" view of ships and the lives of those who sail

We don’t understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today’s political dramas are