The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks (Harrison Christina)(Pevná vazba)

The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks (Harrison Christina)(Pevná vazba)

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)--the unofficial first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew--was a peerless scientific adventurer and pioneer. Not only did he reveal the floral wonders of the South Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia to European eyes, but he set Kew Gardens on its path to

Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage (Gooding Mel)(Pevná vazba)

Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had

Inventory of a Life Mislaid - An Unreliable Memoir (Warner Marina)(Pevná vazba)

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY

Nostromo - A Tale of the Seaboard (Conrad Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo - though over one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political

Stories of the Sea(Pevná vazba)

Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and

Treasures of Botanical Art (Sherwood Shirley)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing from the Kew and Shirley Sherwood collections, Treasures of Botanical Art reveals the history of botanical painting, a genre devoted to beauty and science in equal measure. With its origins in fifteenth-century illustrations used to explain the medicinal and culinary uses of plants,

Kitty and the Treetop Chase (Harrison Paula)(Pevná vazba)

Girl by day. Cat by night. Ready for adventure. In the fourth book of this chapter book series, Kitty, a little girl with catlike superpowers, teams up with another superhero to save a bakery from certain disaster. Kitty and the Treetop Chase is perfect for newly independent readers and for fans

Kitty and the Great Lantern Race (Harrison Paula)(Pevná vazba)

Girl by day. Cat by night. Ready for adventure In the fifth book of this popular chapter book series, Kitty, a little girl with catlike superpowers, is on a mission to stop a thief from ruining her town's annual lantern parade. With dramatic two-color art on every page and an emphasis on

Josephine Against the Sea (Bourne Shakirah)(Pevná vazba)

Meet Josephine, the most loveable mischief-maker in Barbados, in a magical, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology.Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make it onto

The Shirley Sherwood Collection: Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art (Sherwood Shirley)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a celebration of the Shirley Sherwood Collection of contemporary botanical art, considered the most important private collection of its kind in the world. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of botanical Art at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was the first public gallery in the world

The Magic Bird's Nest (Chaudoin Harrison Josephine)(Pevná vazba)

Veiled in fairytale symbolism, The Magic Bird's Nest embraces the new life struggling to be born in everyone. Polly, our heroine in The Magical Master Snowman and the Black Dragon by Josephine Chaudoin Harrison, is reborn in New Zealand. Her new life takes the reader on an amazing childhood journey

A Sprinkle of Sorcery (Harrison Michelle)(Pevná vazba)

This sequel to A Pinch of Magic is another spellbinding sisterly adventure, this time with a haunted shipwreck, a fierce pirate, and, of course, a little magic! The family curse has been lifted, and the Widdershins sisters--Betty, Fliss, and Charlie--are free to leave the misty prison isle of

The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety (Mills Simon Y.)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of American Botanical Council's 2005 James A. Duke Botanical Literature Award, the Essential Guide to Herbal Safety offers a balanced and objective perspective on the principles of herbal medicine safety as well as the complex challenges relating to self-prescribed or professionally

Grass Memorial (Harrison Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of An Imperfect Lady and The Flowers of the

Victorian Tragedy: The Extraordinary Case of Banks v Goodfellow (Frost Martyn)(Pevná vazba)

'A Victorian Tragedy', for the first time, describes how the landmark court case of Banks v Goodfellow (1870) came about, what happened to the protagonists and how an enlightened judgment provided a practical definition of testamentary capacity that has since been used throughout the common law

Korean Art - The Power of Now (Joseph Marcelle)(Pevná vazba)

On the Banks (Hopkin Alannah)(Pevná vazba)

Spell of Swallows (Harrison Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of An Imperfect Lady and Swan

The Imitation of Christ: Thomas A. Kempis (Kempis Thomas a.)(Pevná vazba)

TheImitation of Christ is a beautiful edition of the original, deeply spiritual book by Thomas Kempis. In this revised, easy-to-read, prayer book size book, readers will experience the peace and wisdom that have comforted Catholics from around the world. TheImitation of Christ shows how to better

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Mark Twain's sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chronicling the adventures of Sawyer's friend, Huck Finn. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Mark Twain

I Plead The Blood of Jesus Christ. (Burt John C)(Pevná vazba)

A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration (Lack H. Walter)(Pevná vazba)

Art meets science in this far-reaching catalogue of botanical illustration. Drawn from the vaults of the National Library of Vienna, these exquisite color reproductions range from 6th-century manuscripts to 19th-century masterpiecesand celebrate both the skill of botanical artists and the abundance

The Book of Bitch (Banks Ailie)(Pevná vazba)

Writer and artist Ailie Banks is a self-proclaimed bitch. The word has been thrown at her, and the women around her, Ailie's entire life. A bitch is stereotypically thought to be unkind, uncaring, and ultimately untrustworthy. But in Ailie's eyes, a bitch is someone who stands firm and speaks their

Whole Story: Painting more than just the flowers (Hart-Davies Christina)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful retrospective overview of the work of award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davis, telling the whole story of plants and flowers and their surrounding species and habitats, interweaving illustrations and artworks with commentary from the artist about the plants, the inspiration