George Black
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In a radical reinterpretation of the 19th-century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history: the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars, and the "civilizing" of the frontier. Yellowstone, Wyoming, was landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. Black charts its course through the lives of those who sought to lay bare its...
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Travel along the shores of the Ganges and glimpse the past and future of the people who live there.
Journey along one of the world's greatest rivers and catch a glimpse into the lives and cultures of the people who live along its banks. The Ganges flows through northern India and Bangladesh for more than 1,500 miles before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. It is sacred to Hindus who worship Ganga, the river goddess. But it has also long been a magnet...