Mark Frutkin

This is the story of Marco Polo, as he is about to set sail on an arduous and lengthy pilgrimage with his father, uncle, and faithful guide across the sun-soaked silk route....

Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914....

As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner....

The year is 1901, a stormy Atlantic isolates two continents....

An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 American Vietnam War draft resisters sought sanctuary in Canada....

Mark Frutkin's classic novel In the Time of the Angry Queen was first published in 1923. The story follows an artist as he gets enveloped into the world of competitive chess....

In 1936, escalating violence and unrest in Spain explodes into civil war....

In 1904 a force of 2500 British Imperial troops invaded Tibet....