Stephen R. Bown, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-31391-3
From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat and all other diseases combined, according to Bown (Sightseers and Scholars
). In this intriguing book, Bown tells how the preventative and...
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Stephen R. Bown, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-32913-6
Bown follows his well-received Scurvy
with another sedulously researched and well-written popular history. He's particularly good at penning provocative theories that link seemingly modest events to monumental changes in the course of history....
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Stephen R. Bown, St. Martin's/Dunne, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-61611-3
Bown (A Most Damnable Invention) has produced a magnificent description of the six great companies, and their leaders, that dominated the "Heroic Age of Commerce." Bown demonstrates how the corporations served as stalking horses for kings and...
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Stephen R. Bown, Author Douglas & McIntyre $34.95 (254p) ISBN 978-1-55365-339-4
Though mostly forgotten, the 1791-95 voyage of Capt. George Vancouver and his crew rivaled Columbus and Cook's for long-term impact; Vancouver's painstaking navigation through the uncharted Pacific set the path for modern North Pacific...
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Stephen R. Bown. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-61612-0
Historian Bown (Scurvy) offers an entertaining, though often repetitive, chronicle of intrigue, deception, and power struggles in the early modern world. When Columbus returned from the New World to Spain in 1493, Portugal’s King João II claimed...
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