HNR Issue 47 (February 2009)
The Lost City of Z
Since the 15th century when Spanish invaders first contacted indigenous people in the Amazon basin, there have been rumors of…
Luca Antara: Passages In Search of Australia
A New Zealander transplanted to Australia in the early 1980s, Martin Edmond divided his time between learning to get around…
Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
Despite the subtitle, this is primarily a history of medical practice in America’s frontiers, concentrating on the time after the…
Forsaken Soul
What could be more peaceful than summer in an English seaside village—the seaside village of Tyndal, for instance? A summer…
Metrostop Paris: History from the City’s Heart
This is basically a literary walk around Paris, except that since it ranges over the whole metropolis the imaginary journey…
Cherokee Thoughts, Honest and Uncensored
Novelist Robert J. Conley explores his own heritage in this nonfiction collection of essays about the Cherokee people, their history…
Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
What could a brilliant, wealthy young woman do in Victorian England if marriage did not entice her, and domestic spinsterhood…
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
Fifth in Willig’s “Pink Carnation” series, this latest outing finds historian Eloise Kelly sidetracked in her search for the floral…
Kentucky Clay
When I received this book to review, I expected it to be largely centered on two of Kentucky’s most famous…
October Skies
In the spring of 1857, a starving man dressed in rags emerges from the forest surrounding a small American town.…
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