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The new books that caught my eye this month:

A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare’sThe Tempest

By Hobson Woodward (BUY)
I love sea adventure stories, and this one looks like a lot of fun.

Mile-High Fever: Silver Mines, Boom Towns, and High Living on the Comstock Lode

By Dennis Drabelle (BUY)
The Comstock Lode was a major silver deposit in Nevada that caused a great deal of excitement as fortunes were won and lost throughout the 1860s.

Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi

By Timothy R. Pauketat (BUY)
A thousand years ago, Cahokia was a city on the Mississippi River with a population of 20,000. This huge city was abandoned long before Europeans showed up - giving anthropologists a great opportunity to come up with many different theories on the city’s decline. The earthen mounds that remain are a World Heritage Site.

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