Features the science behind these destructive natural disasters and tells how societies around the world cope with their ferocity, covering such topics as rogue waves, forecasting techniques, and resc
Profiles the English explorer's journeys through early seventeenth-century America, including contact with natives, life aboard ship, and Dutch colonization.
Describes how tea is grown, harvested, and turned into a beverage; discusses the historical and societal importance of tea; and explores the tea trade.
Provides a history of the elastic substance, chronicling the shift in large-scale trade and cultivation from Amazonia to the British Empire's Southeast Asian colonies, as well as describing the modern
