David Antram

Details what life was like for sailors on whaling ships during the nineteenth century, including the duties of the crew, the whaling ship the Essex, how whales were processed, and how people survived a shipwreck or being lost at sea.

A look at Irish immigrants who came to the United States to escape the potato famine.

This volume lists ten mummies from ancient Egypt, each of which has something "creepy" about it.

A light-hearted look at some of the difficulties faced by the pioneers who traveled by wagon train across the United States to settle in the West.

"Get ready...as a young man in Civil War America, you are about to become involved in a highly dangerous underwater arms race. You could get into very deep water in the first submarine..."--Cover back.

A light-hearted introduction to the life and training of a Roman gladiator.

Describes the construction of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, the life and various jobs of the workers, and the burial of the pharaoh.

Looks at how dental problems were taken care of in past centuries, and describes what dentists do and how to care for teeth.

Describes the incidents of body snatching and murder in Edinburgh in the nineteenth century, where criminals would commonly sell corpses to the medical community for dissection.