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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Jory Rask is a professional shockball player. The fastest runback in the game, she is loved across Terra. But Jory Rask has a secret that she's lived with for twenty-four years ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fictional account of the history of the Caribbean area includes the racial, political, and economic struggles from the arrival of Columbus and Spanish control to present day ...