Lost To Time

In his collection of essays Lost To Time (#24), Martin Sandler tells the stories of persons and events that are significant, but have been "lost to time".  He begins with a black slave from Baghadad who emigrated to Andalusia in Spain.  Music, meals, hygiene and fashion have all been influenced by this man down to the present day.  Mr. Sandler ends the book with the story of Exercise Tiger, a disasterous and deadly rehearsal off the coast of England for the D-Day Invasion.  In between, he includes chapters on an enormous fire in Wisconsin the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, two Revolutionary riders whose missions were even more critical and ardous than Paul Revere's, a secret subway built beneath the streets of New York, and the story of Gustave Whitehead who almost certainly made powered aircraft flights two years before the Wright Brothers (but the Smithsonian has signed a contract that does not allow them to ever mention or display his work!).

I find this stuff fascinating.  It's provided hours of lively car conversation for me and my husband of the "Did you know....?" variety.  I hope you decide to read Lost To Time, it will be time well spent!