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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: E3-108 Title: English Wild Flowers Author: J T Burgess Publisher: Frederick Warne Price: 45.00 Description: This is a book to be kept with care as it is in a very poor condition, but particularly interesting and knowledgeable. Included are a few pages descriptive of the different forms of roots,leaves, flowers and flower-stems, together with a brief summary of the principles of classification adopted by botanists in order that those who wish to collect specimens of the wild flowers for an herbarium may have some guide... they will be assisted by the index where in addition to the common and scientific name of the flowers are added their natural order,together with the season and where they bloom.. No real illustration but a few sketches within the book ...it is a serious book. 180 pages including the index. The complete title will be English wild flowers to be found by the wayside, fields, hedgerows,rivers, moorlands, meadows, mountains and sea-shores with practical illustrations. The book certainly stayed a bit too long in a naturalist's pocket as it is badly bent , and has tendency to break open, the spine being seriously damaged... it also has lot of pencil markings showing it certainly belong to a serious botanist .! Order Now! BookId: E4-000177 Title: By Way of Cape Horn Author: Villiers A.J Publisher: Garden City Price: 50.00 Description: A very interesting story , bookof adventures and true Life Sea stories . " By Way of Cape Horn ." by A J Villiers author of "Falmouth for Orders " and other Sea stories . illustrated with photographs by the author and By Ronald Gregory Walker , . Book is well used , in good condition , one loose page however , no dust jacket, cloth cover and 336 pages plus a few photos. Order Now! BookId: E4-0013 Title: A Wanderer in Florence Author: E.V. Lucas Publisher: Methuen Price: 55.00 Description: With sixteen illustrations in colour by Harry Morley and 38 photographs from paintings and sculptures... Order Now! BookId: E4-0015 Title: Two vagabonds in Sweden and Lapland Author: Jan and Cora Gorfon Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Co Price: 75.00 Description: Four plates by Jan Gordon and illustrations by the authors. Order Now! BookId: E4-0017 Title: Two Vagabonds In Albania Author: Jan and Cora Gordon Publisher: John Lane Price: 125.00 Description: Illustrations by the authors Order Now! BookId: E4-0019 Title: The Royal Road to Romance Author: Richard Halliburton Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill co Price: 69.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: E4-0021 Title: Japan's Cultural History a perspective Author: Yutaka Tazawa Publisher: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan Price: 16.00 Description: New Order Now! BookId: E4-0029 Title: Mysteries of the Past Author: Lionel Casson , Robert Clairbone...etc Publisher: American Heritage Publishing Price: 30.00 Description: Another of Readers Digest's coffee table books on historical mysteries. A bit dated perhaps, but nicely illustrated and always fun to browse through. Contents: Who first crossed the oceans? Who raised the megaliths? Where did Homer's heroes come from? / Lionel Casson What caused the sudden rise of modern man? / Robert Claiborne Who were the mound builders? / Brian Fagan Why did the ancients not develop machinery? Where did ancient traders sail? China and the west: which was first? / Lionel Casson How did human races originate? / Walter Karp How has climate affected history? Who were the Indo-Europeans? / Robert Claiborne What caused the collapse of the Maya? / Brian Fagan The book is a hard cover , coffee table book , with dust jacket , in perfect condition. , the usual small tears on a jacket of 45 years ... the inside is also perfect ,Red and beige cloth cover with title and publisher in gold letters on the beige spine, 319 pages with index . a bit old on some subjects but still lot of discovery .... Order Now! BookId: E4-1 Title: The guide to National Parks of the SouthWest Author: Nicky Leach Publisher: Southwest parks and monuments association Price: 18.00 Description: Authoritative and indispensable interpretive guide to 52 National Park Service areas in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. "A great book to plan our next RV trips. The pictures and descriptions are perfect. They give a very good idea of the sites and make you realize how beautiful the South West is." Soft cover , coffee table format, map , very good condition , excellent photography .... a great book at that price, 80 pages , as new, very clean. Order Now! BookId: E4-10 Title: Knossos , a complete guide to the Palace of Minos Author: Anna Michailidou Publisher: Ekdotike Athenon Price: 15.00 Description: Introduction; Historical outline; Myth and tradition; History of the excavations;Minoans and Knossos; The archaeological site; Route from Herakleion to Knossos; Tour of the palace; The main features; West court - west façade; West porch - corridor of the procession - central court; South propylaeum - west magazines - piano nobile; Throne room - tripartite shrine - pillar crypts; Grand staircase - hall of the double axes - queen's hall; Upper floor of the domestic quarter - shrine of the double axes; Royal workshops and magazines - east hall; North entrance - north lustral area - theatral area; The dependencies of the palace; Art treasures from Knossos. The book is clear , as new, with original price from museum, 125 pages , gorgeous color pictures .... great guide Order Now! BookId: E4-11 Title: Herakleion Museum Author: Manolis Andronicos Publisher: Ekdotike Athenon Price: 18.00 Description: 1980. No Edition Remarks. 79 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Contains colour illustrations. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age, looks new . Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. original price sticker still on. . A great Art book , no trace of previous ownership. Order Now! BookId: E4-12 Title: Phaistos Hagia Triada Gortyn Author: Costis Davaras Publisher: Editions Hannibal Price: 22.00 Description: Publisher's original colour illustrated French Flap card wrap covers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 64 printed pages of text with colour illustrations throughout, fold-out plan to the rear. Without any ownership markings and in Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. a great little book , as new, very clean , no name, no markings. Order Now! BookId: E4-13 Title: Romantisches Deutschland Author: unknown Publisher: Phoenix im scherz verag Price: 40.00 Description: No information on this book on the net .. The small text is mostly in German , but this is mainly a photographic Essay with 208 pages of pictures with description in German, English and French ...so the importance of the small text is probably ignored. Great pictures . Large book with dust jacket, some tears on the jacket and a bit of creasing. the hardcover has a greyish cloth cover with title name in black, no name of author. Title is also on the spine in black, the book is in good condition , used but clean, 223 pages. Order Now! BookId: E4-14 Title: A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins Author: C, Bruce Hunter Publisher: University of Oklahoma press Price: 69.00 Description: Bruce Hunter offers an introduction to the culture and history of the Maya, taking into account the most recent discoveries and theories about their origins, rise to greatness, and fall. He then takes the reader on a tour through their magnificent cities and ceremonial centers. Since the publication of the first edition of this work, it has become the standard guide for serious travelers to the great Maya sites of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. In this expanded and updated edition C. Bruce Hunter offers an introduction to the culture and history of the Maya, taking into account the most recent discoveries and theories about their origins, rise to greatness, and fall. He then takes the reader on a tour through their magnificent cities and ceremonial centers. Each site is presented in the light of current excavations and restorations and illuminated by stunning photographs and detailed site maps. Important centers that have recently become accessible by modern transportation have been added to this edition. Appended are helpful suggestions for reaching the sites, tours, weather and clothing tips, and a list of selected readings. The twenty-four sites included: Guatemala: El Baul, Iximche, Kaminaljuyu, Las Ilusiones, Mixco Viejo, Monte Alto, Quirigua, Seibal, Tikal, and Zaculeu. Honduras: Copan Mexico: Bonampak, Coba, Chichen Itza, Cozumel, Edzna, Kabah, Labna, Palenque, Sayil, Tulum, Uxmal, Xlapak, and Yaxchilan. Throughout the guide the author shares his wealth of experience over thirty years spent leading field-study trips for the American Museum of Natural History, and his special aesthetic vision of this most remarkable of the ancient civilizations of the Americas. Critics have called this guide "among the few books the curious traveler should take along to the field," and the thousands of copies sold attest to its enduring usefulness. The book is new and has probably never been read . It is full of information with appropriate maps, photographs and more .... 24 color plates , hundred plus just plain photographs,lot of graphics, one of the best book written about the Mayas. New hard cover with new dust jacket, all in perfect condition, 342 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: E4-15 Title: King Solomon's ring Author: Konrad Z Lorenz Publisher: Methuen Price: 25.00 Description: New light on Animal's ways. The book's title refers to the legendary Seal of Solomon, a ring that supposedly gave King Solomon the power to speak to animals. Lorenz claims that he likewise achieved this feat of communication with several species. He accomplished this by raising them in and around his home and observing their behavior. King Solomon's Ring is a general-audience zoological book, written by Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz in 1949. The first English-language edition was published in 1952. The English title refers to the legendary Seal of Solomon, a ring that supposedly gave King Solomon the power to speak to animals. Lorenz claimed to have achieved this feat of communication with several species, by raising them in and around his home and observing their behavior. King Solomon's Ring describes the methods of his investigation and his resulting conclusions about animal psychology. Konrad Zacharias Lorenz 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. the book is a standard paperback book , no dust jacket edited for University . It is a clean book , no writing, marking or past owner name, unbroken spine, some illustrations , 202 pages with short index Order Now! BookId: E4-16 Title: The Game Keeper at Home Author: Richard Jefferies Publisher: Smith, Elder and Co Price: 45.00 Description: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life with illustrations by Charles Whymper. First new edition. Those who delight in roaming about amongst the fields and lanes, or have spent any time in a country house, can hardly have failed to notice the custodian of the woods and covers, or to observe that he is often something of a “character.” The Gamekeeper forms, indeed, so prominent a figure in rural life as almost to demand some biographical record of his work and ways. From the man to the territories over which he bears sway—the meadows, woods, and streams—and to his subjects, their furred and feathered inhabitants, is a natural transition. The enemies against whom he wages incessant warfare—vermin, poachers, and trespassers—must, of course, be included in such a survey. Although, for ease and convenience of illustration, the character of a particular Keeper has been used as a nucleus about which to arrange materials that would otherwise have lacked a connecting link, the facts here collected are really entirely derived from original observation. John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings about the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time, but it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not." This is an older book , hard cover with a dark green cloth cover decorated with a hunter in gold on the front and name of author and title again in gold on the spne, no dust jacket . Condition good, , normal wear and use but no damages , no writing or marking through the book , 221 pages , some quality illustrations by Charles Whymper. Order Now! BookId: E4-17 Title: Builders of the Ancient World Author: Mary Ann Harrell Publisher: National Geographic Price: 18.00 Description: Ancient constructions that stand out as exceptional examples of engineering technology and enduring beauty are described in this panoramic study. One chapter each is devoted to ancient Greece and Rome, MesoAmerica, South America, India and Southeast Asia, and China. Each chapter is written by an archaeologist or historian. Written as a mixture of first-person impressions and historical background, much of it is technical. The focus is on the many structures of a civilization, varying from temples to drainage systems, rather than lengthy descriptions of only a few edifices. Difficult vocabulary and convoluted sentences limit the accessibility of the text, but the many glorious full-color photographs are a browsing treat for everyone. New, with dust jacket new as well, 200 pages. Order Now! BookId: E4-18 Title: Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways Author: National Geographic Publisher: National Geographic Price: 36.00 Description: Whether you're looking for a short day trip close to home or a several-weeks-long vacation, you'll find a host of ideas in this beautifully illustrated, detail-packed book, which celebrates America's regional diversity, rich history, and jaw-dropping splendor 5th Edition: The 300 Best Drives in the U.S. Paperback – Illustrated, Feb. 6 2018 500 pages plus map of the united States .... New condition. Order Now! BookId: E4-19 Title: The South of France Author: Barbara Mandell Publisher: Globe Pequot Price: 12.00 Description: Cadogan Guides as new 232 pages , map. Order Now! BookId: E4-19B1264 Title: Hong Kong with shopping tours and Macau... Author: Fodor Publisher: Fodor89 Price: 6.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: E4-2 Title: Into the Unknown Author: Reader's Digest Publisher: Reader's Digest Price: 52.00 Description: Can certain people travel out of their bodies and look back and see their physical forms? Is reincarnation possible? Do strange ape-like monsters still roam certain parts of the earth? Is there a connection between the planets, the stars and human destiny?What are ghosts and why do people see them? How can the human body heal itself without surgery or medication? Do extraordinary paranormal capacities await discovery in the billion-cell landscape of the human brain? Here in one dramatically illustrated and scrupulously researched book, these and hundreds of other questions from the world of the unknown, the paranormal, the occult and extrasensory are examined in authoritative and fully comprehensible terms. More than 350 illustrations help document and explain the unknown, as well as reveal the faces of those people who have pursued its mysteries or been caught in the power of its often inexplicable grasp. Here you will meet ¥The astrologer whose courtroom predictions convinced a judge that her powers were real. ¥The Long Island, New York, housewife who said she was transported by the occupants of a UFO to a world filled with monkey-like creatures and bright, floating crystals. ¥The down-to-earth farmer who believed he left his body to visit his ailing father and was reportedly seen at the foot of the bed by his parent. ¥The members of a Canadian group who set out to fabricate a ghost and then came to believe that they actually communicated with their phantom creation) The book is in perfect condition , fine , no dust jacket , Hard cover with navy blue cloth cover and darker ble spine, name ob book in silver letters. 352 pages including index , plenty of illustrations and plenty of Unknow ! A beautiful and interesting book. Order Now! BookId: E4-20 Title: The Alhambra illustrated by Joseph Pennell Author: Washington Irving Publisher: MacMillan Price: 50.00 Description: This edition of The Alhambra, the 1908 edition, complete with illustrations by Joseph Pennell, presents a welcome opportunity to reassess Irving's European writings. It is not possible to forget Washington Irving in the Alhambra. With a single volume, the simple, gentle, kindly American man of letters became no less a figure in the Moor's Red Palace than Boabdil and Lindaraxa of whom he wrote. And yet, never perhaps did a book make so unconscious a bid for popularity. Irving visited Granada in 1828. He returned the following year, when the Governor's apartments in the Alhambra were lent to him as lodgings. There he spent several weeks, his love for the place growing with every day and hour. It was this affection, and no more complex motive, that prompted him to describe its courts and gardens and to record its legends. The work was the amusement of his leisure moments, filling the interval between the completion of one serious, and now all but unknown, history and the beginning of the next. It is not possible to forget Washington Irving in the Alhambra. With a single volume, the simple, gentle, kindly American man of letters became no less a figure in the Moor's Red Palace than Boabdil and Lindaraxa of whom he wrote. And yet, never perhaps did a book make so unconscious a bid for popularity. Irving visited Granada in 1828. He returned the following year, when the Governor's apartments in the Alhambra were lent to him as lodgings. There he spent several weeks, his love for the place growing with every day and hour. It was this affection, and no more complex motive, that prompted him to describe its courts and gardens and to record its legends. The work was the amusement of his leisure moments, filling the interval between the completion of one serious, and now all but unknown, history and the beginning of the next. It is not possible to forget Washington Irving in the Alhambra. With a single volume, the simple, gentle, kindly American man of letters became no less a figure in the Moor's Red Palace than Boabdil and Lindaraxa of whom he wrote. And yet, never perhaps did a book make so unconscious a bid for popularity. Irving visited Granada in 1828. He returned the following year, when the Governor's apartments in the Alhambra were lent to him as lodgings. There he spent several weeks, his love for the place growing with every day and hour. It was this affection, and no more complex motive, that prompted him to describe its courts and gardens and to record its legends. The work was the amusement of his leisure moments, filling the interval between the completion of one serious, and now all but unknown, history and the beginning of the next. Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. the book is an old book in fair/ good condition , red leather with gold title and author name on the spine and the cover in gold letter , the spine is a bit edented but solid , the inside of the book is very clean , the illustrations still perfect , beautiful work by Pennell. 436 pages ... a great introduction to Spain as well. Order Now! BookId: E4-21 Title: Fanshen A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese village Author: William Hinton Publisher: Vintage Price: 35.00 Description: anshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village is a 1966 book by William H. Hinton that describes the land-reform campaign during the Chinese Civil War conducted from 1945 to 1948 by the Chinese Communist Party in "Long Bow Village" (the name used in the book for the village of Zhangzhuangcun in Shanxi province). Hinton lived in the village in spring and summer of 1948 and witnessed scenes described in the book and recreates earlier events based on local records and interviews with participants. He explains party strategy to present the campaign's successes in building a revolutionary consciousness and a power-base among the poor peasants, but also its errors and excesses, especially the violence toward rich peasants and landlords. Fanshen has been compared to Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China and characterized as "perhaps the book that most changed American cold war perceptions of the Chinese Revolution. More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China’s revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshen is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China’s complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff. the book is an older used book in good condition .. paperback , no dust jacket , clean and solid , spine is very good, one big crease on the cover, no writing, spoiling or defacing , on this thick book , 637 pages including index. great reading. Order Now! BookId: E4-22 Title: Growing up in New Guinea Author: Margaret Mead Publisher: Dell Price: 18.00 Description: The book is about her encounters with the indigenous people of the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea before they had been changed by missionaries and other western influences. She compares their views on family, marriage, sex, child rearing, and religious beliefs to those of westerners. A comparative study of primitive education with an expanded preface by the author. rowing Up in New Guinea is a 1930 publication by Margaret Mead. The book is about her encounters with the indigenous people of the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea before they had been changed by missionaries and other western influences. She compares their views on family, marriage, sex, child rearing, and religious beliefs to those of westerners. Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia. Mead served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975. Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic.Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions. the book is a paperback , relatively rare , in good condition, no dust jacket , some scratching where price used to be, very solid spine, clean in and out , 288 pages, index and map at the end of the book. Order Now! BookId: E4-23 Title: The Wretched of the Earth Author: Frantz Fanon Publisher: Grove Press Price: 10.00 Description: The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing ... The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonization of a person and of a people. The French-language title derives from the opening lyrics of "The Internationale" anthem Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Francophone Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization. The book is an older paper back , no dust jacket , slanted from use but in fair/good condition , 316 pages ....very clean but for the last end papers covered with small writing of a teacher , notes about this book. Order Now! BookId: E4-3 Title: Presenting New Zealand . A Nation's heritage. Author: Philip Temple Publisher: New Holland Price: 55.00 Description: Beginning with the huge rifts of prehistoric times that tore New Zealand's parental land mass away from the supercontinent of Gondwana, the book traces the arrival of the first Polynesian canoes, the exploration and subsequent settlement by Europeans and goes on to outline the conflict engendered by the ensuing cross-cultural encounters. The country’s modern-day social, economic and political achievements are then analysed in Philip Temple’s lively and lyrical account of the growth of this remarkable country. Historical publications are often heavy reading, but Philip Temple has produced an extremely informative and enjoyable read that, in 10 chapters and 160 pages, gives a concise regional profile of the country’s development. Well recommended. Southland Times. Imagery from the past is selected and reproduced to an impeccably high standard with a wonderfully concise and engaging narrative from a highly respected writer. Wairarapa Times-Age.. This is a real coffee table book with wonderful photography, in fine condition , no name, no writing, no spoiling . Illstrated dust jacket with ,of course sheeps on a mountain background (very good as wee) , Hard cover is a beige cloth and the title on the spine is in silver letters . . .The end papers are an antique map of the Province of Canterbury and Mont Cook (and plenty of very fancy nicknames for all these new places just discovered ! ). 192 pages including index. Gorgeous illustrations. Order Now! BookId: E4-4 Title: Roman London Anno Domini XLIII to CCCCLVII Author: Gordon Home Publisher: Eyre and Spottiswoode Price: 40.00 Description: Condition: Very Good. . Hardcover. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1948; 3rd completely revised, enlarged edition. with dust cover in fair condition (small tears), slightly scuffed but with original price; red cloth in mint condition; xii+302pp incl index, 31 plates, 69 drawings, maps, or plans. This book supplies the general reader with an account of what is known of London during the five centuries when it was the capital of the Roman province of Britain. It not only provides a summary of the results of archaeological and historical research down to the present day but it gives a continuous account of the life, commerce and government of the city from the time when only a very small and primitive community inhabited its site, through the period of its greatness as Londinium, the famous mart that had been renamed Augusta, down to the last view which history affords of the strongly-walled and bastioned city-state holding its own through the dark days when the Roman Empire was crumbling. Major Home's narrative, which is lavishly illustrated with plans, drawings, reconstructions, and photographs of the actual Roman remains, includes also an interesting suggestion for rebuilding part of the bombed central area so as to reveal permanently the length of the bastioned wall and ditch, which once formed part of Londinium's defences, and which was uncovered during the clearing-up after the blitz.Great book for the historian as well as the tourist or local interested in the Past .... some notes on back end papers. Order Now! BookId: E4-5 Title: A Natural History of Man in Britain Author: H J Fleure Publisher: Collins Price: 45.00 Description: One of the aims of this series is to present a comprehensive survey of our natural history in relation to its background and environment. A first and vital consideration in a project of over fifty volumes is the study of man himself through the ages, against the very varied natural conditions afforded by the British Isles. A NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN IN BRITAIN is such a study. In the words of the editors, "we believe that it will contribute much to the outlook of man as one with nature, that alone can save our beautiful islands from wrongful changes, from the degradation and destruction which may result equally from unplanned development as from wrongly conceived planning." Surely no man, by academic training and subsequent studies, is so well fitted to undertake a review of this vast and complex field as Professor Fleure. His long association with the University of Wales at Aberystwyth and his later connection with the University of Manchester have given him distinctive viewpoints. It is now more than thirty years since he published his Human Geography in Western Europe and more than twenty years since, with the late H.J. Peake, he began that remarkable series of volumes, the Corridors of Time. We owe this book to a perfect combination of historian, anthropologist, geographer and naturalist. It is the fruit of a lifetime's gathering. The book is in good condition with fair dust jacket , usual tears, priced cut and looking a bit tired .... the book itself in green cloth cover is in good condition , name of author and title in gold letters on the spine , 38 plates in color and 38 plates in black and white , mostly photographs, and 76 line drawings by Alison Birch. .349 pages including index .... a very good book . No name of past owner and no writing, marking or spoiling, Order Now! BookId: E4-501625 Title: Le tour du monde en 220 vues Author: unknown Publisher: unknown Price: 100.00 Description: Totally in pictures, no text but the brief description of each of the 220 photographic views of the main cities of the world. Illustrated, gilted cover ..on a red cardboard, book was dated by the Expo 1900 picture of the Palace of Trocadero in Paris , now dismounted... 21 pages of sepia photographs .... Order Now! BookId: E4-501667 Title: America's Atlantic Isles National Geographic Author: Robert Morrison Christine Eckstrom Lee Publisher: Natinal Geographic Price: 8.00 Description: |
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