Featuring superb and rare images, The Beauty of the Flower reveals the fascinating stories behind botanical illustration.

16-year-old Skeets Stearns is a farm boy from Vermont’s rural Northeast Kingdom who finds refuge in the rugged mountain behind his family farm. Roaming the mountain has made him strong…

The beautiful, sleepy hamlet of Clydesdale, Maryland is a birdwatcher's paradise. But this particular autumn, all birds are falling from the sky, their bodies mangled and torn, with no obvious…

This is an adventuresome, humorous story of a father and son that takes place in yesteryear of Florida. The story entails fishing tales, fish tails, hunting, and wild, unbridled revelry…

Oxford has an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. Celebrating 400 years of Oxford botany, this book profiles the…

A travel-journalist goes into North Korea to see what may lurk behind the mysterious borders. Inside he would find a curious culture with fascinating people and many surprises! From the…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Focuses purely on British military intelligence operations during the Crimean War. It details the beginnings of the intelligence operations as a result of the British Commander, Lord Raglan’s need for…