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Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories that History Forgot

Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories that History Forgot

Stories that history forgotâ€¦ but readers will remember.
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â€œThe only thing new in the world,â€ said Harry S. Truman, â€œis the history you don't know.â€ In this fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of Resolute and Atlantic Ocean) restores to memory important events, people, and developments that have been lost to time.
Though barely known today, these are major historical stories, from Ziryab, an eighth-century black slave whose influence on music, cuisine, fashion, and manners still reverberates, to Cahokia, a twelfth-century city north of the Rio Grande, which at its zenith contained a population estimated to have been as high as 40,000 (more than any contemporaneous European city), to the most devastating fire in US historyâ€”not the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871, but the Peshtigo Forest Fire in Wisconsin, which occurred on the same day.
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These tales are far from trivia; they illuminate little-known American and foreign achievements, ingenuity, heroics, blunders, and tragedies that changed the course of history and still resonate today. Includes 76 black-and-white illustrations.
Country USA
Brand Union Square & Co.
Manufacturer Sterling Publishing
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
Format Big Book
EANs 9781454913382
ReleaseDate 2019-02-01

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