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6charlong · 08-30-2009, 11:38 PM

I'm probably way too late to be of any help, but I can recommend several good history books written in an interesting narrative style.

In Shaggy Muses Maureen Adams relates brief biographies of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, with special attention to the relationship of the authors with their dogs.

The Demon Under the Microscope, by Thomas Hager, follows the centuries long struggle to find a "magic bullet" to fight disease, culminating at last with the discovery of antibiotics. One fails to realize what a difference those drugs make in our lives by comparison to life before anyone even knew germs existed.

There were several disaster stories suggested above. Here's another: The White Cascade by Gary Krist recounts the story of the worst railroad disaster in US history, when a passenger train was trapped in the Cascade mountains.

08-30-2009, 11:38 PM	#34
6charlong friendly lurker Posts: 896 Karma: 2436026 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: US Device: Kindle, nook, Apple and Kobo	Way Late I'm probably way too late to be of any help, but I can recommend several good history books written in an interesting narrative style. In Shaggy Muses Maureen Adams relates brief biographies of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, with special attention to the relationship of the authors with their dogs. The Demon Under the Microscope, by Thomas Hager, follows the centuries long struggle to find a "magic bullet" to fight disease, culminating at last with the discovery of antibiotics. One fails to realize what a difference those drugs make in our lives by comparison to life before anyone even knew germs existed. There were several disaster stories suggested above. Here's another: The White Cascade by Gary Krist recounts the story of the worst railroad disaster in US history, when a passenger train was trapped in the Cascade mountains.