Run to the Roar, published by Penguin in November 2010, is a book for parents and coaches who want to learn how to mentor the young athletes in their lives.

In September 1883 Thomas Sidwell opened a new school in a back room in Washington, DC’s Quaker meetinghouse. In the next one hundred and twenty-five years, Sidwell Friends School carved

The sole national anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa, the Guardian not only reported on the liberation struggle but led it. Reporting on strikes, repression and political manuevering, the Guardian had great journalists on its

Called “a man of genius,” by Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard was the first great American explorer. Ledyard (1751-1789) was a native of Groton, Connecticut. He fled Dartmouth College by canoe

The first time all of Ledyard’s writings have been published together, The Last Voyage of Captain Cook was published in March 2005 by the National Geographic Society. It contains his 1783 memoir of

The Preserve: A Centennial History 1904-2004 was privately published in a 2,000-copy edition in August 2004. Professionally designed, it is a 312-page, four-color, coffee-table book, with hundreds of archival photographs, endnotes,

Published by Scribner in September 2003, Squash has a foreword written by the late George Plimpton. The first history of the game in the United States, Squash incorporated every aspect of the popular sport.