The Discoverers
In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way.
The Seekers
Here are the absorbing stories of exceptional men such as Marx, Spengler, and Toynbee, Carlyle and Emerson, and Malraux, Bergson, and Einstein.
The Creators
Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Handel, Wagner, and Virginia Woolf, Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention.
The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America
... discoverer , the Rocks of Gunnbionn . ( These islands , from the gradual obstruction of those seas by ice , have now for several centuries been lost to Geography . ) Sailing westward , he soon fell upon the shores of Greenland , ( 982 ...
The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America, from the Earliest Period (982) to the Present Time ...
... the discoverer of a world . The monarch , devoured by chagrin at the splendid prize which he had allowed to slip through his fingers , listened with deep interest and mortification to his wondrous story . " He was much con- cerned ...
Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers
With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words.
Hidden History
In this provocative new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel J. Boorstin explores the essential "hidden history" of the American experience that is overlooked by most historians.
Maps and Mapping
This is one of a series which provides an activity-based introduction to geography, with concepts introduced gradually and simply.
Sound and Light
Uses activities and experiments to introduce the properties of light and sound.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Boorstin has spent a lifetime exploring facets of the American experience.
