Bridges: Spanning the World
Book
Building bridges across rivers, canyons, straits and sea represents one of man's greatest...
Derby in 50 Buildings
Book
Straddling the Derwent River, the cathedral city of Derby, its foundations in the Roman occupation...
Postcolonising the Medieval Image
Eva Frojmovic and Catherine E. Karkov
Book
Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three...
Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art: Women, Agency, and the Trojan War
6.0
Rate It
Book
The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a...
Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
Eric Stanislaus Stenbock and David Tibet
7.0
Rate It
Book
Described by W. B. Yeats as a "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,"...
The Aeneid
Virgil, Robert Fagles and Bernard M. W. Knox
7.2
Rate It
Book
Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold...
The Black Madonna
Book
In ruins on the outskirts of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian city that had been a metropolis since...
Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines: An Illustrated History
Book
From Roman times rocks have been worked for a wide range of purposes, initially as building stone....
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
Book
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is...
History
The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories
Book
An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction One of the...
Horror