True Stories: Discovery/Historical/Scientific

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order ...

Delightfully horrifying. --Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss''s Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday''s Best Science Books of 2018* A ...

''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in ...

Two women. One secret. Will they be able to keep it under wraps? It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, A...

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east.Marco Polo w...

The story of more than sixty years of diving adventures, through starkly contrasting locations and extraordinary advances in technology. From boyho...