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  • In Pursuit of Wild Edibles

    A Forager's Tour

    Today we care about the source of our food as much as the preparation, so it is no surprise that foodies have discovered wild edibles. From the most upscale restaurants in New York to humble farm stays in Europe, chefs and restaurant-goers alike are seeking pleasure in food found in the wild.In Pursuit of Wild Edibles: A Forager’s Tour tells the story of one man passionate about finding wild ... Leer más

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  • Masters of Tonewood

    The Hidden Art of Fine Stringed-Instrument Making

    The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world’s legendary stringed instruments—violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars—comes from seven near-mythic European forests. In his latest book, Jeffrey Greene takes the reader into those woodlands and into luthiers’ workshops to show us how the world’s finest instruments not only contribute to great musical art but are prized works of art ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Bird Flu Pandemic

    Can It Happen? Will It Happen? How to Protect Yourself and Your Family If It Does

    Based on the recent avian flu outbreaks that have emerged into human populations, the World Health Organization now warns us that bird flu--if mutated into a supercontagious pandemic form--could visit millions of homes within two years.The Bird Flu Pandemic provides definitive answers to the questions on all our minds:- Should we be getting reading for a world catastrophe, and if so, what should ... Leer más

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  • The Golden-Bristled Boar

    Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest

    The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real, living by night and, despite shrinking habitats and hordes of hunters, thriving on six continents.Greene purchased an eighteenth-century presbytery in a region of ponds and forests in northern Burgundy between the Loire and Seine Rivers of France. He soon discovered he’d ... Leer más

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  • A Year in the World

    Journeys of A Passionate Traveller

    de Frances Mayes ...
    A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIAThe author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of ... Leer más

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  • Provence A-Z

    A Francophile's Essential Handbook

    de Peter Mayle ...
    The ultimate “dictionary” for lovers of Provence: Peter Mayle's personal selection of the foods, customs and words he finds most fascinating, curious, delicious, or just plain fun.Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. In more than 170 entries, Peter Mayle—bestselling author of A Year in Provence—writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and ... Leer más

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  • The Many-Colored Land

    de Julian May ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Saga of Pliocene Exile
    In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future—many of them brilliant people—began to seek this ... Leer más

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  • The Island of Books

    Traducido por Rhonda Mullins ...
    A rich portrait of the beauty of words – painted by a 15th-century illiterate scribe.A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until a monk assigns him the task of copying a manuscript – though he is illiterate. His work slowly heals him and continues the ... Leer más

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  • On Persephone's Island

    A Sicilian Journal

    Series series Vintage Departures
    An American woman residing in Sicily for the past twenty years portrays the Sicilian landscape and customs--both rural and urban--from the perspectives of both a "foreigner" and a resident. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • City

    A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

    The Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator takes young readers through the building of an imaginary city in Ancient Rome.In City, David Macaulay introduces readers to the fascinating world of Ancient Roman architecture and engineering, combining straightforward text and black and white illustrations to tell the story of a city's creation. While the Roman city of Verbonia is imaginary, its ... Leer más

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  • An Inventory of Losses

    Traducido por Jackie Smith ...
    A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote IslandsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Warwick PrizeWinner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's PrizeLonglisted for the International Booker PrizeEach disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Beef

    The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World

    The cow. The most industrious animal in the world. A beast central to human existence since time began, it has played a vital role in our history not only as a source of food, but also as a means of labor, an economic resource, an inspiration for art, and even as a religious icon. Prehistoric people painted it on cave walls; explorers, merchants, and landowners traded it as currency; many cultures ... Leer más

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