Steven Seitel
The Lost Mr. Linthwaite
A quest to track down his missing uncle (Mr. Linthwaite) leads investigative journalist Richard Brixey to the mysterious medieval town of Si…
The Clevedon Case
Quoting from a "teaser" on the flyleaf:The well-known authority on criminology, Dennis Holt, inherited a house in a remote village…
The Count's Chauffeur
When car-crazy George Ewart accepts employment as chauffeur to Count Bindo di Ferraris, an Italian aristocrat, he has no idea what he has ju…
The Tickencote Treasure
Paul Pickering is a doctor without a fixed practice, and when an old sea captain asks him to join a voyage around the Mediterranean, that's …
Europe In The Middle Ages
Though sometimes called the "Dark Ages", the period of Middle Ages is far from dull or uninteresting. In this book I. L. Plunket m…
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…
Despoilers of the Golden Empire
A handful of men, and an incredible adventure—a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! The story appears to be ab…
An Introduction to the History of Science
A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I)
Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story
From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is …
The Lost Oases
This book was published in 1925. Oxford-educated Egyptian diplomat and geographic explorer, Hassanein Bey (Ahmad Muhammad Hassanayn), with t…
In the Heart of Africa
A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continen…
A History of California: The Spanish Period
If you have ever wondered why Spain (and not Japan, which was so so much better positioned to do it) was first to “settle” the Golden State,…
Round About a Great Estate
John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolutio…
A History of California: The American Period
The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New Englan…
Peaks of Shala
This book was published in 1923. From the author's own Introduction: "I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an…
The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one ha…
Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America
In the 1890's, three American adventurers in search of warmer weather explore Central and South American cities by steamship and on horsebac…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…
The Romance of Excavation
The Romance of Excavation: A Record of the Amazing Discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, etc., with Twenty-Nine Illustrations,From the…