Folklore History Series

Reducere. First published in 1910, "Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties" is a vintage collection of traditional sailing songs, collected and published in this volu...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on historical sources, myth and folklore, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore explores the roles of fantastical beasts...

DescriptionLaunching a new education and conservation project that connects people from different cultures, this dazzling series by renowned photog...

Reducere. The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton's fishing classic, is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing. Through prose, verse, song, and folklore, W...

Reducere. The third book in the Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox series When a resepcted mandarin is murdered in the heart of the Forbidden City, Ma...

Yokai are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. In the Edo period (1603-1868), many artists, such as Hokusai Katsushika or Kuniyos...

English Summary: Introducing M tis culture through a series of eight traditional tales retold by Nathalie Bertin. These charming and entertaining s...

Reducere. DescriptionIntroducing: An Asian Mythology Trilogy From the Creator of the Captivating History Series This book includes three captivating manuscri...

DescriptionTales of East Africa is a collection of 22 traditional tales from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Welcome to a world of magical adventure--...

Reducere. Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internati...

DescriptionAll across the Americas, from the sixteenth century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic...

DRAGON AWARD-NOMINATED SERIES. New entry in the Witchy War series, blending alternate history, Appalachian Folklore, and epic fantasy. Sarah Calhou...

Reducere. Wolfskin is the first of a fantasy duet in The Light Isles series from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, rom...

DescriptionWho hasn't been fascinated by monsters? This book collects some of the best creatures from Dungeons & Dragons, setting them out in an in...

DescriptionMalevolent and dark, the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm are not for the faint-hearted. The stories were originally publishe...

Reducere. Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and a devil. Thes...

Help Your Magic Burn Brighter with the History, Lore, and Uses of Fire Bring the passionate element of fire into your practice with this captivatin...

Reducere. Researching obscure bits of archaic lore and writing best-selling novels is everyday life for Arthur Pax. Arthur spent most of his life reading and...

Reducere. This is a collection of 70 stories from the popular radio series, Stories from Texas, that runs on the Texas Standard Network of 32 NPR stations ac...

Reducere. The Norse god Odin was a relentless seeker of knowledge and wisdom, willing to sacrifice almost anything for this pursuit.Odin's hunger for wisdom ...

Reducere. In a series of more than 50 interviews that span seven decades, many never before seen in print, this is the story of Led Zeppelin told by the peop...

"Haunted Land: The Devil's Backbone 3" is the third in this popular Texas series of ghosts, the supernatural and the mysterious. It picks up where ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sun TzuAuthor: Zhuge LiangAuthor: This unique edition of Thirty-Six Stratagems features both English, Chinese and Pinyin si...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking....

DescriptionLike other groups with dangerous occupations, mariners have developed a close-knit culture bound by loss and memory. Death regularly dis...

DescriptionAcclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil.Burni...

Reducere. Bert Wall, a fifth-generation Texan, grew up in Houston where he graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in history and political sc...

DescriptionThis new, thoroughly updated edition of the Yorkshire Dales, part of Bradt's series of distinctive 'Slow' guides to local UK regions, re...

Reducere. Jesus Potter Harry Christ explores the roots of the religious controversy surrounding the Harry Potter series, traces the intriguing similarities b...

Reducere. The Norse god Odin was a relentless seeker of knowledge and wisdom, willing to sacrifice almost anything for this pursuit.Odin's hunger for wisdom ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work tells the story of the common dandelion, that remarkably widespread plant that is known, for better or worse, by just about ev...

Reducere. In Minnesota, much more than the magnificent scenery will take your breath away. Tales of fright-filled folklore span the length and breadth of the...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the ...