- Introduction
- The Voyage of Magellan
- Chapter 1: East to Asia, West to Asia
- Chapter 2: The Man
- Chapter 3: The Plan
- Chapter 4: The Fleet
- Chapter 5: Underway
- Chapter 6: The Atlantic Crossing
- Chapter 7: A Sojourn in Eden
- Chapter 8: Rivers of Disappointment
- Chapter 9: Any Port in a Storm
- Chapter 10: The Easter Mutiny
- Chapter 11: Winter in Patagonia
- Chapter 12: Folly and Cruelty
- Chapter 13: The Strait
- Chapter 14: The November Mutiny
- Chapter 15: The Pacific Crossing
- Chapter 16: The Happy Thieves
- Chapter 17: A Philippine Thanksgiving
- Chapter 18: Sex, Politics, and Religion
- Chapter 19: The Battle of Mactan
- Chapter 20: The Cebu City Massacre
- Chapter 21: Philippine Vagabonds
- Interlude: The Mutineers’ Return
- Chapter 22: The Sultan’s Realm
- Chapter 23: The Bloodless Mutiny
- Chapter 24: A Pirate’s Life
- Chapter 25: The Spice Islands
- Chapter 26: Homeward Bound
- Chapter 27: Into Unknown Oceans
- Chapter 28: Around the Capes
- Chapter 29: In the Belly of the Beast
- Chapter 30: Lost and Found
- Chapter 31: Life and Death
- Epilogue: Sailor of Eternal Fame
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
- The Sistine Chapel
- Chapter 1: A Dawning Age of Faith
- Chapter 2: A Holy Roman Emperor
- Chapter 3: A Deposer of Emperors
- Chapter 4: Warriors of God
- Chapter 5: A Model Pope?
- Chapter 6: Faith and Reason
- Chapter 7: A Century of Dissolution
- Chapter 8: A Century of Transformation
- Chapter 9: A Rebirth in the City of Flowers
- Chapter 10: A Matter of Perspective
- Chapter 11: The Artist and the Zealot
- Chapter 12: The Artist and the Pope
- Chapter 13: The Artist in the Chapel
- Chapter 14: A Tour of the Chapel Ceiling
- Chapter 15: The Proto-Protestants
- Chapter 16: The Reformer
- Chapter 17: The Diet of Worms
- Chapter 18: The Pope of Wittenberg
- Chapter 19: The Reformation Beyond Germany
- Chapter 20: The Artist’s Return
- Epilogue: The Counter-Reformation
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
- The Great Wall of China
- Introduction: Walls, Walls, and Yet Again Walls
- Chapter 1: The Land, the People, and the Language
- Chapter 2: Origin Stories
- Chapter 3: The Beginning of Chinese Civilization
- Chapter 4: Confucius
- Chapter 5: The Way of the Old Master
- Chapter 6: The Qin Dynasty
- Chapter 7: The Han Dynasty
- Chapter 8: The Era of Division
- Chapter 9: The Tang Dynasty
- Chapter 10: The Song Dynasty
- Chapter 11: The Yuan Dynasty
- Chapter 12: The Ming Dynasty
- Chapter 13: The Early Qing Dynasty
- Chapter 14: The Opium War
- Chapter 15: God’s Second Son
- Chapter 16: Radicals and Reactionaries
- Chapter 17: A Family Affair
- Chapter 18: Two Faces of Revolution
- Chapter 19: The Long March
- Chapter 20: A Disease of the Skin
- Chapter 21: Dubious Allies
- Chapter 22: A People’s Republic
- Chapter 23: A Great Leap Forward?
- Chapter 24: The Cultural Revolution
- Chapter 25: The Passing of the Old Guard
- Chapter 26: Two Miracles and a Massacre
- Chapter 27: China, Incorporated
- Chapter 28: A Slow Inhalation
- Chapter 29: The Virus
- Epilogue: Waiting to Exhale
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
- The Colossus of Rhodes
- The Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria
- Chapter 1: The Founding
- Chapter 2: The Beautiful Corpse
- Chapter 3: A Museum and a Library
- Chapter 4: A Lighthouse
- Chapter 5: Alexandrian Mathematics
- Chapter 6: Alexandrian Astronomy
- Chapter 7: Alexandrian Medicine
- Chapter 8: Literary Alexandria
- Chapter 9: A Declining Power and a Rising One
- Chapter 10: Cleopatra and Caesar
- Chapter 11: Cleopatra and Antony
- Chapter 12: A Fresh Start
- Chapter 13: The Machine Man of Alexandria
- Chapter 14: The Last of the Alexandrian Star Gazers
- Chapter 15: The Prophet from Galilee
- Chapter 16: Incarnations of Christ
- Chapter 17: One Religion, One Dogma, One Book
- Chapter 18: Christianity Supreme
- Chapter 19: Conflict and Conquest
- Epilogue: The Alexandria You are Losing
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- The Oracle of Delphi
- Chapter 1: The Center of the World
- Chapter 2: The House of Cadmus and the Cult of Dionysus
- Chapter 3: The Adventures of Perseus
- Chapter 4: The Birthright of Ion
- Chapter 5: The Tragedy of Oedipus
- Chapter 6: The Labors of Heracles
- Chapter 7: The Voyage of the Argonauts
- Chapter 8: The Suffering of Heroes and Women
- Chapter 9: The Siege of Troy
- Chapter 10: The Revenge of the Gods
- Chapter 11: The Justice of Men
- Chapter 12: The Reforms of Lycurgus
- Chapter 13: The Constitution of Solon
- Chapter 14: The Fortune of Croesus
- Chapter 15: The Wisdom and Folly of Athens
- Chapter 16: The Shame of Cleomenes and the Glory of Miltiades
- Chapter 17: The Redemption of Leonidas
- Chapter 18: The Humbling of Xerxes
- Chapter 19: The Apex of Greece
- Chapter 20: The Choice of War
- Chapter 21: The Suicide of Greece
- Chapter 22: The Conquest of Greece
- Epilogue: Myth and History
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
- Notes on Sources
- The Pyramids of Giza
- Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip
- Chapter 2: The Mystic and the Measurer
- Chapter 3: The Soldiers and the Savants
- Chapter 4: The Consul and the Captain
- Chapter 5: The Captain and the Sphinx
- Chapter 6: Khafre and the Giant
- Chapter 7: The Polymath and the Specialist
- Chapter 8: Menkaure and the Colonel
- Chapter 9: The Philologists and the Gatekeeper
- Chapter 10: The Publisher and the Astronomer
- Chapter 11: The Astronomer and the Archaeologist
- Chapter 12: Tourists, Fabulists, and Diggers
- Chapter 13: The Gift of the Nile
- Chapter 14: A God’s Final Resting Place
- Chapter 15: Laying the Groundwork at Giza
- Chapter 16: How to Build a Pyramid
- Chapter 17: Two More Pyramids — and a Sphinx
- Chapter 18: 3600 Years
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
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