Books by Hunt Janin

Provides a detailed survey that blends Yellowstone National Park's past into its present and explores its likely future. The book covers the first inhabitants of the area; the explorers and visionary conservationists who first brought Yellowstone to public attention; and the flora, fauna, and spectacular geology of the region.

The histories of four of the Western rivers of the Great Basin - the Walker, the Truckee, the Carson and the Humboldt - are explored in this book, along with three of the western lakes of the Great Basin: Lake Tahoe, Pyramid Lake, and Walker Lake.

Before the Gold Rush of 1848-1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier - and home to a colourful group of Spanish speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Drawing on firsthand contemporary accounts, the author chronicles the rise and fall of Californio men and women.

Concentrates on Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular pilgrimages to Jerusalem, drawing from over 165 accounts of travels to the ancient city. Chapters focus on ghostly and other pilgrims, the significance of Jerusalem, the beginnings of the pilgrimage in the time of kings David and Solomon, pilgrimages under Roman and Byzantine rule, and more.

In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts, the book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of the many thousands of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers.

Presents a survey of the major historic trails of New Mexico and other parts of the American Southwest. This work highlights prehistoric Indian trails, Spanish exploration, and Pecos as a microcosm of the old Southwest.

Presents a survey of Muslim intellectual and cultural achievements that spans 1,400 years. Chapters in this work fall into three sections: fundamentals of Islamic learning; its growth; and its future direction in the face of anti-intellectual fundamentalism.

The university is indigenous to Western Europe and is probably the greatest and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages. This survey traces the growth of the largest medieval universities of Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, along with the universities of Cambridge, Padua, Naples, Montpellier, Toulouse, Orleans, Angers, Prague, Vienna and Glasgow.