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The River of Doubt
Candice Millard’s debut book arrived in 2005 with a premise that sounds almost too dramatic to be true: former President Theodore Roosevelt, after losing his 1912 bid to return to the White House, decided to do the next logical thing. He plunged into the unmapped Brazilian Amazon with a team of Brazilian soldiers, American naturalists,…
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The Anarchy
In the spring of 1757, a private company with about two thousand soldiers defeated the Nawab of Bengal’s army of fifty thousand on the banks of a river called Plassey. The Nawab controlled the richest province of the Mughal Empire; the company was a trading outfit chartered in London in 1599 to sell spices and…
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Isaac’s Storm
On September 8, 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in American history struck Galveston, Texas, with almost no warning. A hurricane of immense force drove a storm surge across the low-lying barrier island, leveling thousands of structures and killing somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 people in a single night. Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm, published in 1999,…
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