Douglas Botting

Discusses the lives and deeds of Henry Every, Stede Bonnet, John Rackam, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and other pirates.

Text and illustrations describe the history of the airship, people involved in its early development, and its demise as a commercial form of transportation.

Learn about the history of submarine warfare.

"In July 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin conducted the maiden flight of the world's first zeppelin. The trip lasted eighteen minutes and the airship reached a cruising speed of eight miles an hour. Among those watching the historic event was a young reporter named Hugo Eckener, who would go on to play a crucial role in the zeppelin's development, becoming first the count's aide and later his successor. In 1929, Eckener earned a lasting place in...