Travel Books
Journey Through the Lives of Adventurers and Explorers
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Alexander the Great
The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
Uncommon Grounds
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
The Games
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
The Children of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
Muhammad
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.
The Defiant Optimist
Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.
A World Beneath the Sands
The Golden Age of Egyptology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Kingdom of Lies
Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime. St. Martin’s Press, 2019.
The Mosquito
A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. Dutton, 2019.
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