This is not the longest or the most "academic" book on European history I've read, but it's one of my favorites.Toby Lester has a real gift for making history interesting and accessible for the layperson. He covers a wide range of subjects from the lives of Marco Polo and Columbus to the medieval...
"Da Vinci's Ghost" is about Leonardo Da Vinci's road, philosophies, and steps to making one of his famous pieces of work, "Vitruvian Man". Author Toby Lester went deep into Leonardo's journey to discovering the "Vitruvian Man". This author went into his early days when he first started drawing an...