The author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and back…

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s "Two Years Before the Mast" is an engaging account of his transforming journey as a common sailor aboard a commerce vessel in the early nineteenth century…

He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all…deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality…It was like a buried treasure…

This is the first detailed study and catalogue of a comb type that represents a new technology introduced into Britain towards the end of the 4th century AD and a…

Comparative essays by an international panel of historians offer fresh insights into the unfolding of the Reformation across Europe. From Saxony to the Baltic to Transylvania, each chapter draws out…

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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These beautifully illustrated countryside tales, captured in a series of three books, will delight children aged 3-10 as Henry the field mouse emerges from his nest under the garden shed…