Frank Mundell

This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration. My aim has been to narrate some of the most thrilling incidents of Polar …

The Victoria Cross is the highest military award that can be made to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces for acts of gallan…

There's fury in the tempest,And there's madness in the waves;The lightning snake coils round the foam,The headlong thunder raves;Yet a boat …

Despite not having attended conventional school for more than a few months during his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison received a good groundin…

Heroines of Travel documents the bravery and fortitude of a number of Victorian-era women who showed that adventure and exciting experiences…

Mont Blanc is the Monarch of the Mountains: They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. (Byr…

Men, women and children (who could until 1842 be as young as four years old and from 1900 had to be over thirteen years of age) worked in th…

In the following pages will be found brief narratives of some of the more famous incidents and exciting episodes which mark the history of b…

The stories presented here have been collected from reports of actual incidents responded to by various fire brigades with examples from bot…

Established in 1774, the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ published information on how to save people from drowning,…