The stories upon which the Broadway musical "South Pacific" is based explore the people and beauty of the Pacific's Coral Islands as seen though the eyes of a young naval ...

David Harper discovers love and beauty with the help of fine teachers.

Factual essays which he weaves into his stories convey the author's impressions of the beautiful Pacific Islands

Advance galley proofs of Michener's novel about the Korean War.

Covering the story of a Seville rancher who is trying to recover his once-proud line of bulls, an American journalist is a witness to the rancher's devout faith and the ...

Writer Lucas Yoder, editor Shirley Marmelstein, critic and would-be author Karl Streibert, and reader Jane Garland, who treasures the written word, play key roles in a study of ...

By a trick of fate, the Andau Bridge becomes a lifeline to freedom for Hungarians fleeing the Russians in 1956

Moves from Alaskan prehistory, to Russian exploration, to acquisition by the United States to statehood, detailing historical high points through the lives of imagined and ...

Eight wanderers, spanning three generations, find themselves thrown together in the Spanish resort town Torremolinos

Engineer Stanley Mott, astronomy student John Pope, naval hero Norman Grant, and rocket engineer Dieter Kolff serve as principals in the forty-year history of America's space ...