2023 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Explorer
These hand-picked holidays gifts are perfect for the explorer in your life! Inspire them with the tales of intrepid explorers who have come before them, a gorgeous photography collection of the American West, pocket knives and tactical watches to use on the trails, and new journals to fill with stories of their favorite trips.
New In: Stunning 19th Century Family Bible
In the late 19th century, to counter the popularity of cheaper, popular dime novels, several publishers sought to elevate the book back to a piece of artistry that would be cherished for generations to come. They used expensive leathers, gilt details, and elegant engraved illustrations to do so. These sumptuously bound special editions of bibles, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and poetry, like our new-in 1882 Family Bible, valued the book as a work of art in itself.
Illustrator Edward Shenton
Remington's Nocturnal Paintings
Admiral Halsey: An American Naval Hero
During World War II, the U.S. Navy fought in every ocean of the world, but it was the war in the Pacific against the Empire of Japan that would have the greatest impact on shaping the future of the U.S. Navy. The impact was profound, thanks to the strategic and organizational leadership of our Navy Admirals. William F. “Bull” Halsey (1882-1959) was an American Admiral who led the task force attack on the Marshall and Gilbert islands and became commander of Allied naval forces in South Pacific commanding at the Solomon Islands and Leyte Gulf.
Washington's Horse Blueskin
Blueskin was one of Washington’s two primary mounts during the Revolutionary War. The horse was a half-Arabian, sired by the stallion "Ranger,” and a gift to Washington from Colonel Benjamin Tasker Dulany. He was a smaller horse than Nelson, Washington’s other mount, but could still easily carry the six-foot-tall Washington. Washington usually rode Nelson in battle, as the horse was less skittish around cannon fire. Yet due to Blueskin’s near white hair coat, he was the horse most often portrayed in artwork showing Washington on horseback.
The Beautiful and the Damned: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and the Damned, published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, presents the reader with a fictionalized telling of the perpetually problematic relationship between Zelda and Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald. The novel is not only a landmark in the career of F. Scott Fitzgerald, but a glimpse into past high-societies wrapped up in a rebound cover of blue leather and hand-worked gilding.
JFK and James Bond
California in Three Maps
Exploring 19th Century Paris Maps
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
John Rogers: Sculpting the Civil War
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