The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf, Taylor Jesse Oak

Автор: Karas G. Brian
Название: As an Oak Tree Grows
ISBN: 0399252339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399252334
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 12250.00 T
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Описание: This inventive picture book relays the events of two hundred years from the unique perspective of a magnificent oak tree, showing how much the world can transform from a single vantage point. From 1775 to the present day, this fascinating framing device lets readers watch as human and animal populations shift and the landscape transitions from country to city. Methods of transportation, communication and energy use progress rapidly while other things hardly seem to change at all.
This engaging, eye-opening window into history is perfect for budding historians and nature enthusiasts alike, and the time-lapse quality of the detail-packed illustrations will draw readers in as they pore over each spread to spot the changes that come with each new era. A fact-filled poster is included to add to the fun.

Автор: Miles Archie
Название: British Oak
ISBN: 1472123751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472123756
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 30360.00 T
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Описание: A major work celebrating the oak tree in Britain - exploring the history, culture, topography and biology of the nation`s iconic tree.

Автор: Oak B. B.
Название: Thoreau in Phantom Bog
ISBN: 0758290276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780758290274
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 11030.00 T
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Описание: Henry David Thoreau's impassioned activism in the Underground Railroad leads him away from the banks of Walden Pond into a morass of murder...

In the spring of 1848, Thoreau returns to Plumford, Massachusetts, in search of a fellow conductor on the Underground Railroad, who has gone missing along with the escaped female slave he was assigned to transport. With the help of his good friend, Dr. Adam Walker, Thoreau finds the conductor--shot to death on a back road.

When the two men discover that Adam's beloved cousin Julia has given the slave safe harbor, their relief is counterbalanced by concern for Julia, who has put herself in grave danger. Another conductor has been murdered in a neighboring town and a letter has been found from someone claiming to have been hired to assassinate anyone harboring fugitive slaves. With all of them now potential targets, the need for Thoreau and Adam to apprehend the killer is more urgent than ever...

Автор: Oak B. B.
Название: Thoreau on Wolf Hill
ISBN: 075829025X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780758290250
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Far from the tranquility of Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau confronts the chilling reality of an epidemic. . .as well as cold-blooded murder.

The winter of 1847 has brought a consumption epidemic which is devastating the village of Plumford, Massachusetts. In an atmosphere of increasing hysteria and superstition, country doctor Adam Walker and philosopher Henry David Thoreau seem the only voices of reason.

The winter also brings two visitors to Plumford. Solomon Wiley hails from Rhode Island and offers his services as a vampyre hunter, insisting that the scourge is supernatural in origin. At the same time, Adam's cousin Julia has returned home from France, mysteriously without her new husband.

When a former student of Thoreau's is found mutilated and drained of blood in the woods, Wiley insists that a legendary Indian vampyre has arisen. Dismissing the blustering fearmonger, Thoreau and Adam follow clues to the backstage world of a Boston theater, the smoky decadence of an opium den, and an Indian burial ground. Both men will need to keep their wits about them--or risk ending up in coffins of their own. . .

Praise for Thoreau at Devil's Perch

"A promising debut. . .Thoreau is just as you'd expect him: erudite, eccentric, waxing philosophical about his love of nature, and a natural detective." --Publishers Weekly

"Ambitious. . .the research and fresh take on Thoreau make for an admirable start." --Library Journal