I was having lunch a couple of weeks ago with my editor and her colleagues from National Geographic in Washington DC. They took me to a fantastic restaurant near their offices on K Street, and as we were walking there,… Read More
My eighth grader’s history textbook allocates half a page to Lewis and Clark. It explains in painfully dull detail how in 1803 President Jefferson sent the expedition to explore the new territory he’d just bought from the French (hello, how… Read More
In 1839, Edgar Allen Poe lent his name to a book on conchology (the study of mollusks). Although he probably only wrote the introduction, it was the only book “by” Poe that went to a second edition during his lifetime.