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In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life: the day-to-day routines and conversations, the sailors who manned the ship, the brutality of incompetent officers, and the style of life in the newly emerging coastal towns of California.

As Thomas Philbrick discusses in his introduction, the public's sympathy for the plight of mariners, which was aroused by the book,...

Holy Blood, Holy Grail rocked the very foundations of Christianity. Now four more years of research have uncovered shocking material -- and its earthshaking consequences.

- What extraordinary meaning lies behind Jesus' title -- "King of the Jews"?
- Was there more than one Christ?
- Who really constituted Jesus' following -- and what were the real identities of Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot?
- Who now has the ancient treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem?
- What is the true source of today's Christian "Fundamentalism"?
- What links the Vatican, the CIA, the KGB, the...

The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel s textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in1909. "The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from James s notebooks, letters, travel books, and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove. "Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978. Eleven essays...