Across America on an Emigrant Train

By Jim Murphy, Murphy Jim

Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-ce...

The Boys War

By Jim Murphy

Gone a-whaling

By Murphy Jim

Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.

Across America on an Emigrant Train

By Jim Murphy

An American Plague

By Jim Murphy, Murphy Jim

The real Benedict Arnold

By Jim Murphy, Murphy Jim

"Drawing on Arnold's surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries ... a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his pee...

Pick and Shovel Poet

By Jim Murphy

A Young Patriot

By Jim Murphy

Two hundred years of bicycles

By Murphy Jim

Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the modern racing bicycle and HPV.

Two hundred years of bicycles

By Murphy Jim

Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the modern racing bicycle and HPV.