Exotic creatures and unexplored terrains populate Darwin's account of the Beagle's momentous voyage.
The great propagandist for Tudor sea power depicts the voyages of the fames explorers who mapped the world.
Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
'The first art historian' explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.
From the great writer of turn-of-the-century New York, two devastating portraits of lonely widowhood and an unconventional marriage.
This horrifying, semi-autobiographical feminist story of imprisonment and madness scandalized nineteenth-century society.
The fearless, pioneering Victorian female explorer describes dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool in Africa.
Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madness and buried bodies by the master of the macabre.