The complete online text of A Question of Latitude by Richard Harding Davis.

The American journalist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was also a fiction writer and dramatist whose swashbuckling adventures were popular with the American public. Richard Harding Davis was born into a well-to-do and rather pious Episcopalian family...

Richard Harding Davis may be better remembered in late-twentieth-century America for being the son of novelist Rebecca Harding Davis than he is for his own literary accomplishments. In late-nineteenth-century America, however, Davis epitomized the Americ...

Richard Harding Davis was one of the most colorful, daring, and attractive figures in journalism in the late 1800s and early 1900s; he was also highly competent, honest, and dependable. Because of his dashing life-style, which seemed never to impede his...

BEFORE LEAVING England in 1772 on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Captain James Cook supplied himself with four recently invented "clock machines" that promised to record reliable time at sea. These chronometers-the name wouldn't stick until the 37805-allowed Cook to establish longitude...

IT'S HARD TO TAKE satisfaction in the Supreme Court's decision yesterday in the case of Kelo v. City of New London -- the result of which is quite unjust. Yet the court's decision was correct. New London, Conn., has been attempting to take...