linguistics
People obsessed with the shapes words make.
The Formosan
How did a blonde Frenchman convince 1700s London he was from Formosa?
The Reluctant Emperor
What kind of emperor reads fourteen languages, pays his own train fares, and orders a hundred telephones on the spot?
The Man No One Could Stop
Burton pulled a javelin through his own face and kept fighting, but his wife burned forty years of his writing to save his soul.