True Stories

The Voyager Golden Record

Apollo 13: The Duct Tape Spaceship

The Hubble Rescue Mission

Valentina's Secret

Opportunity's Marathon

Howard Carter's Five Empty Years

Mary Anning's Monsters

Cracking the Stone

The Temple That Rewrote History

The Farmers and the Army

The Arrow Messengers

Subutai's 8,000 Miles

Crossing the Ice

The Five-Year Siege

The Road to Kublai Khan: The Travels of Marco Polo

The Beetle's Fog Nets

Reading the Sand

The Plant That Lives 2,000 Years

The Skeleton Coast

The Canal Through the Mountain

Meeting in the Middle

Brunel's Great Ambition

Everyone Came Home

Nansen's Crossing

Kon-Tiki

Measuring the World with Shadows

The Dog Who Found The Cave

The City Carved In Stone

The Rock That Ended The Dinosaurs

The Rivers Under The Jungle

The Dragons That Were Real

The Sheep, The Duck, And The Rooster

Twelve Seconds At Kitty Hawk

Breaking The Invisible Wall

The Clock That Found The Edge Of The World

Saving The Temple From The Flood

The Ship That Came Back

The Tower That Proved Them Wrong

The Dome With A Hole In The Roof

The Underground City

The Dome That Floats On Light

The Building That's Never Finished

The Probes That Melted

Finding Hawaii In The Empty Ocean

The Man On The Wire

The Octopus Who Planned His Escape

The Astronomers In The Jungle

The Day You Saw The Sun Disappear

The Man Who Named The Ice

Twenty-Two Condors

The Wolves That Fixed the Rivers

Barry the Avalanche Dog

The City That Drains Itself

The Walls That Speak for Themselves

The Clerk Who Mailed His Math

The Girl Who Saved the Beach

The Shadow Snake of Chichen Itza

The First Ball Game

Where Chocolate Comes From

The City That Was Really There

The Fairy Chimneys

The Doctor Nobody Believed

The Sticky Notes That Weren't Supposed to Exist

Five Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Vacuum Cleaners

The Shed Where Honda Started

The Farm Boy Who Made Moving Pictures

One Boat at Sixteen

The Boy Who Sold Matches

The Washerwoman Who Built an Empire