Nearby, teenage skaters show off in a riverside park, and cars dash by on Sinatra Drive, mostly unaware that this 20-foot-deep cave has its own enthralling history, and possibly historical treasure waiting to be found.
Alex Ross's enthralling history of 20th-century music is, for me, one of those books.
And if you don't fancy a trip to Istanbul, Norwich has written an equally enthralling history of Venice, and two books on Norman Sicily.
Heap's enthralling history defines "slumming" broadly, to encompass the activities of Victorian social reformers, who enjoyed dropping in on immigrant households, and the "Negro vogue" and "pansy and lesbian craze" of the nineteen-thirties.
What is certain, according to Roger Ekirch, author of a compendious and enthralling history of the night called At Day's Close, is that never in human history had we been more afraid of the night than in the period that immediately preceded our ability to vanquish it.
Fredrik Logevall, in "Embers of War," his enthralling history of America's involvement in Indochina, described how, as early as 1951, the thirty-four-year-old Kennedy, by then a Second World War veteran and a three-term congressman, travelled through Southeast Asia, during a time when America was supporting France's colonial ambitions in Vietnam.
It was as enlightening as the best sort of political history, as enthralling as the most page-flippingly exciting thriller.
If the castle impresses with its picture-book looks, it enthrals with its history.
Galison gives an enthralling account.
Guy's scholarly biography, as enthralling as a detective story, provides a wider vision of Tudor history and shows with stunning clarity how the historical narrative was shaped.
"Guy's scholarly biography, as enthralling as a detective story, provides a wider vision of Tudor history and shows with stunning clarity how the historical narrative was shaped," Gerard Kilroy wrote here.
