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Worth Looking For
An Illustrated History of the First World War
• John Keegan
HISTORY •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 448 PAGES
• COMING IN
An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War, considerably enhanced by his selection of almost 500 photographs, maps, drawings and illustrations. The visuals clarify and augment his wide-ranging narrative of the origins, battles and consequences of WWI.
(WAR16, $50.00) |
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Birds of Britain & Europe
• Hermann Heinzel
• Richard Fitter
• John Parslow
FIELD GUIDE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
• COMING IN
This masterfully organized Collins Pocket Guide, featuring 3,000 color illustrations covers the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Maps, text and illustrations for each species are organized together on facing pages for quick reference in the field. Heinzel contributed all the handsome watercolor illustrations.
(EUR49, $27.50) |
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Hans Christian Andersen, The Life of a Storyteller
• Jackie Wullschlager
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2002 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
The acclaimed biography of Copenhagen's most famous denizen, who rose from his lot as a washerwoman's son to dine with princes and literary lions -- yet who died alone and unhappy. Wullschlager, an arts critic at the Financial Times, has written a thorough, and thoroughly grown-up, treatment of Andersen.
(DMK13, $21.00) |
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The Royal Physician's Visit
• Per Olov Enquist
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
• COMING IN
Swedish novelist Enquist fleshes out a footnote in Danish history in this story of the Enlightenment-era Danish court, the mad king Christian VII, the ambitious royal doctor and the passionate young queen. It's a wonderfully realized book.
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