First published in 1878, this English translation of the memoirs of Hans Hendrik (c.1834 89), a native Greenlander, provides a valuable alternative perspective on polar exploration in the nineteenth century. Inuit were often employed on Arctic expeditions of the period. Hendrik is remarkable, however, not only because his skills as a guide and hunter were called on repeatedly during several expeditions - notably those led by Elisha Kent Kane, Isaac Israel Hayes, Charles Francis Hall and George Strong Nares - but also because he wrote his own account of these experiences. The memoirs show that...

Gunnar Hylten-Cavallius, George Stephens: Schwedische Volkssagen und Marchen Wien: Haas, 1848. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2014. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Hylten-Cavallius, Gunnar/Stephens, George: Schwedische Volkssagen und Marchen. Deutsch von Carl Oberleitner. Wien: Haas, 1848. Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgefuhrt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Anton Edvard Kieldrup, Die Ruinen von Hammershus, 1848. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."

George E. Stephens, the most important African-American war correspondent of his era, served in the famed black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, subject of the film Glory. His letters from the front, published in the New York Weekly Anglo-African, brilliantly detail two wars: one against the Confederacy and one against the brutal, debilitating racism within his own Union Army. Together with Donald Yacovone's biographical introduction detailing Stephens's life and times, they provide a singular perspective on the greatest crisis...