Three Americans met and were challenged on the high, wild, lion-guarded Serengeti Plains of East Africa: a former white hunter, African-born of missionary parents, his life already torn by tragedy; a beautiful young California woman on pilgrimage ...
When the son of a former astronaut is kidnapped and confined to an underground capsule with a limited lifesupport system, his father faces the machinations of politicians, publishers, and reporters as he struggles to free his son...
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Brita...
In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. ...
Why do some men, women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? In his stunning new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes provides a startling and persuasive answer.Why They Killexplores the discoveries of a maverick Ame...