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  • The Green Library: 26 Classic Books to Enrich Your Botanical Knowledge

    Classic Writings on Plant Science, Wildflowers, Forests, Ecology, and Evolution

    by S. Leonard Bastin, Huron H. Smith, Charles C. P. Hobkirk, Henry A. Gleason, Charles Emerson Sanborn, Ernest E. Scholl, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Mrs. Loudon, G. F. Scott Elliot, Charles Clemon Deam, Alphonse de Candolle, Annie Lorrain Smith, Robert H. Mohlenbrock, E. E. Nuuttila, Wilbur R. Mattoon, George D. Fuller, Robert B. Miller, C. B. Webster, Jacob Levison, A. B. Brooks, George Francis Atkinson, Lorin Low Dame, Henry M. Brooks, Edward Step, K. Rangachari, C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Frances Parsons, Charles Otis, Norman Taylor, Maxwell Masters, Julius Sachs, Isaac Bayley Balfour ...
    The Green Library gathers twenty-six classic botanical works into a capacious survey of plant life as science, craft, and cultural inheritance. Its selections range from field guides and floras to studies in taxonomy, ecology, forestry, plant physiology, fungi, and the practical identification of trees and wildflowers. Technical observation sits beside lucid popular exposition, while landmark ... Read more

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  • Nature Art Workshop

    Tips, Techniques, and Step-by-Step Projects for Creating Nature-Inspired Art

    by Sarah Lorraine Edwards, Mikko Sumulong, Alyssa Stokes, Katie Brooks ...
    A visual resource for artists and crafters who want to combine their talents with their love of the natural world.Each page of Nature Art Workshop engages, inspires, and encourages artists to see the world around them in a new light while they learn to create their own nature-inspired art.Four talented visual nature artists guide you through finding and prepping traditional media and natural ... Read more

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  • The Madman's Library

    The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    This fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reaches of the human imagination throughout history.From the author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Phantom Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a unique and beautifully illustrated journey through the history of literature. The Madman's Library delves into its darkest territories to hunt down the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Phantom Atlas

    The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meetThis richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true.Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

    A Diverse Celebration of Christmas Literature

    by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Max Brand, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Charles Mackay, John Addington Symonds, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Van Dyke, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, Frances Ridley Havergal, Alphonse Daudet, William John Locke, Walter Scott, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Booth Tarkington, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Armando Palacio Valdés, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Robert Herrick, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Emily Dickinson, Bret Harte, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Meredith Nicholson, Lucas Malet, Isaac Watts, James Russell Lowell, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Phillips Brooks, Saki, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sarah Orne Jewett, François Coppée, Oliver Bell Bunce, Susan Coolidge, Samuel McChord Crothers, Maud Lindsay, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, André Theuriet, Amy Ella Blanchard, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Evaleen Stein, Amanda M. Douglas, Edgar Wallace, George Wither, Booker T. Washington, Olive Thorne Miller, Vernon Lee, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Henry Vaughan, Eliza Cook, Kate Upson Clark, Ben Jonson, Ernest Ingersoll, Frank Samuel Child, Willis Boyd Allen, Georgianna M. Bishop, Edward Thring, F. L. Stealey, James Selwin Tait, Tudor Jenks, L. Frank Baum, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, Elbridge S. Brooks, Edward A. Rand, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Harrison S. Morris, Robert E. Howard, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Sarah P. Doughty, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Richard Watson Gilder, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Chekhov, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland, William Drummond, Robert Southwell, Reginald Heber, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Macdonald, A. S. Boyd, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Austin, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Guy De Maupassant, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Selma Lagerlof, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Georg Schuster, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, William Francis Dawson, Christopher North, Alfred Domett, Dinah Maria Mulock, James S. Park, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Edmund Bolton, C.s. Stone, Harriet F. Blodgett, John G. Whittier, Christian Burke, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, John Punnett Peters ...
    Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition) presents an enchanting tapestry of yuletide literature that spans centuries and literary styles, gathering works that have shaped holiday storytelling. From tales of benevolence and redemption to merry rhymes and poignant legends, this anthology encapsulates the warmth and magic associated with ... Read more

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  • The Madman's Gallery

    The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    Brought to light from the depths of libraries, museums, dealers, and galleries around the world, these forgotten artistic treasures include portraits of oddballs such as the British explorer with a penchant for riding crocodiles, and the Italian monk who levitated so often he's recognized as the patron saint of airplane passengers. Discover impossible medieval land yachts, floating churches, and ... Read more

    Was $17.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Grand Library of Treasure Hunts: A 45-Book Collection

    Forty-Five Classic Quests of Lost Maps, Hidden Treasure, Sea Peril, and Frontier Adventure

    by Walter Walden, Richard Le Gallienne, William MacLeod Raine, John Maxwell Forbes, Camilla Kenyon, Arthur D. Howden Smith, Ross Kay, Ralph Delahaye Paine, Andrew Jackson Howell, Elliott Whitney, George Manville Fenn, Horatio Jr. Alger, Victor Appleton, Laura Lee Hope, Paul Hutchens, James Otis, G. A. Henty, Charles Gilson, Harry Castlemon, Percy F. Westerman, G. Harvey Ralphson, Upton Sinclair, John Henry Goldfrap, Spencer Davenport, L. Frank Baum, Grace Brooks Hill, Edward Stratemeyer, Capwell Wyckoff, Harold L. Goodwin, James R. Driscoll, Roy J. Snell, Frank V. Webster, Jean L. McKechnie, Rupert Sargent Holland, Gerald Breckenridge, J. T. Trowbridge, Leo E. Miller ...
    The Grand Library of Treasure Hunts gathers forty-five adventure narratives around the enduring romance of maps, lost hoards, remote frontiers, and perilous discovery. Ranging from sea yarns, imperial romances, and wilderness expeditions to schoolboy adventures, detective-inflected quests, and imaginative juvenile fiction, the volume illuminates the flexibility of the treasure-hunt plot. ... Read more

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  • The Madman's Orchestra

    The Greatest Curiosities from the History of Music

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    A beautifully illustrated exploration of the strangest areas of music from around the world, from the author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Phantom Atlas**,** The Madman’s Library**, and** The Devil’s Atlas**.**Join author Edward Brooke-Hitching on a backstage tour of the most surprising and eccentric stories in the history of music. From the musical secrets of prehistoric mo... ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Crackpot Compendium

    A mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history’s most eccentric thinkers.Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly ‘outside-the-box’ thinkers.Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Land Rover Named Lucy

    Three friends. One Land Rover. A journey that changed everything.

    by Andrew Edwards, Brooke Strahan ...
    Three young men, one stubborn Land Rover, and a journey that refused to quit.‘Sometimes the hardest roads lead us home’.When test race car driver Andrew Edwards agrees to deliver a rusting Land Rover from England to West Africa for his cousin, a renowned wildlife artist studying bird migration, he imagines a challenging but manageable adventure. What unfolds is anything but.With two mechanically ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    What's the Weirdest Thing About the World?

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    Narrated by Louis Hill ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    Bloomsbury presents What's the Weirdest Thing About the World? by Edward Brooke-Hitching, read by Louis Hill.“The world is fantastic and enormous. It’s colourful, beautiful, exciting. Sometimes it’s dangerous, and occasionally it’s disgusting. You already know all of this. But, did you know just how weird a place the world can be?”From Labrador-sized pearls to salt-and-vinegar-flavoured grass, set ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • China between Empires

    The Northern and Southern Dynasties

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 2 - History of Imperial China
    After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new ... Read more

    $24.69 USD