James K. Burns

Less than a year and a half before her death, a young woman from Virginia - a great (x3) niece of Thomas Jefferson - took ship in New York City for an extended tour of Jamaica. What she found there...

(Also available in a less expensive black and white edition.)RECENTLY UPDATED (Aug. 2018)! A personal memoir by a hobbyist who started collecting U. S. coins in the 1950s from pocket change and...

Biographical sketches of the "five good" Roman emperors: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, as well as the "bad emperor" Commodus. These short biographies are followed by an...

A richly illustrated collection of musings about fossils and fossil collecting from the author of "Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States" (Johns Hopkins University Press), "Fossil Beach"...

..".I am going to that sweetest of all places, Gale Hill." Patsy Morris Davis, 1845"Gale Hill" was an estate in old Virginia, granted to John Minor of "Topping Castle" by King George II in 1735. It...

A picture book about reincarnation - a journey through time, from 1 billion years ago to the present and beyond.Imagine the Hindus, Buddhists, Pythagoreans, Orphics, Theosophists, Essenes, Gnostics,...

The story and collected papers of a delightfully eloquent and genteel Virginia family, told through intimate letters and journal entries spanning more than 150 years. There are ample doses of humor,...

In the summer of 1884, two Lucys from Virginia - Lucy Minor Davis (1840-1925) and Lucy Lee Trice (1857-1897) - took a grand tour of Europe. They followed a well-beaten path: home - New York - Ireland...

In 12 BC, the Roman Emperor Augustus ordered his stepson Tiberius to divorce his wife Vipsania - the love of his life. Tiberius obeyed - for duty, for love of country, for love of power.Six years...

(Also available in a less expensive black and white edition.)Full color, full page reconstructions of life in Virginia from the Cambrian Period (over 500 million years ago) down to the present day...