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Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth • Maurice Krafft • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)
Reflections on a Marine Venus, A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes • Lawrence Durrell • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • OUT OF PRINT • Originally published in 1953, this is Durrell's contribution to the mythology of postwar Greece, an ode to the island of Rhodes: warm, beautiful and sedate. (GRE29, $10.95)
Ancient Greece, A Concise History • Peter Green • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • A lively, illustrated history of Greece from the Stone Age to the death of Alexander the Great. With good maps, a bibliography for further reading and hundreds of black-and-white photos of sites and objects. (GRE04, $18.95)

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