Into the deep forest with Henry David Thoreau

By Murphy Jim

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.

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...

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.

Desperate Journey

By Jim Murphy, Murphy Jim

The journal of Brian Doyle

By Murphy Jim

In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.

An American plague

By Murphy Jim

Chronicles the yellow fever epidemic of 1973, which centered in Philadelphia. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the epidemic, it includes black-and-white reproductions of period art and facsimiles...

Weird & wacky inventions

By Murphy Jim

Includes drawings of unusual inventions submitted to the patent office with clues to aid the reader in guessing the purpose of each invention.

Desperate journey

By Murphy Jim

In the mid-1800s, with both her father and her uncle in jail on an assault charge, Maggie, her brother, and her ailing mother rush their barge along the Erie Canal to deliver their heavy cargo in t...