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Wesley Case is a former soldier and son of a Canadian lumber baron who sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a cattle ranch, and where he begins work as a liaison between the American and Canadian militaries in an effort to contain the Native Americans' unresolved anger in the wake of the Civil War. Amidst the brutal violence that erupts between the Sioux warriors and U.S.

Surviving a vicious massacre, the Aboriginal boy, Mandawuy is the last of his tribe. He will face the ultimate choice - to join with the white man, or to rebel alongside the warriors who are waging a war against them, pitting their stone-age weapons against guns. When George Collinson meets Eloise at the Governor's Mansion in Sydney, it is love at first sight. But Eloise is married to Edward Cadwallader - George's nemesis and a man capable of great brutality, a man who will never let Eloise or their son leave him alive...

This biography of the inventor James Watt covers his early years, successes and failures, and legacy.

The insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the past look back at critical pivots in history and then look forward at the evolving global scene.

CHARLOTTE & LEOPOLD tells the story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle to Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. Charlotte was the only legitimate royal child of her generation, and her death in childbirth was followed by an unseemly scramble to produce a substitute heir. Queen Victoria was the product. Charlotte won the hearts of her subjects.

The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era: peaceful, rational change was possible and the weight of an oppressive history was suddenly lifted.

A series of deftly turned vignettes of what it was like to live in England at the turn of the last millenium.

In the 1890s when most women were content to marry well, Daisy Bates, an Irish-born, former charity case orphan, reinvented herself from governess to heiress to anthropologist. She would become one of the best known, and most controversial anthropologists in history, and one of the first people to put Aboriginal culture on the map with her study of language and kinship ties. When she migrated to Australia, she was able to pass herself off as an heiress who taught for fun. Marriage followed, first to the young Breaker Morant, then to two other husbands with whom she was guilty of bigamy.