Sarah E Wolfe

Yosemite Bill was always misunderstood, until he met a group of people who would change his life – and the mountains – forever. This is the unofficial legend of Yosemite Valley, as told one September afternoon while backpacking through the Sierra Nevadas. Watercolor illustrations by the author.

Enter a world of fairies and make-believe. Often children are told to quit "imagining things" and to stop "making things up". But, what if Jeds and Blats and Zappys really are real? And what if there really is more than what we see and what we're told? The power of imagination and the belief in what...

Despite the apparent dominance of gunnery, in the age of sail sea fights were often concluded by boarding actions - desperate and bloody hand-to-hand melees where edged weapons rather than firearms were the deciding factor. The particular needs of naval close-quarter combat produced distinctive vers...