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A chronicle of Snow's seven-week hiking tour of Cape Cod in 1946, combining history, human-interest stories, and legends to make the Cape and its people come alive.

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Publication history, first editionsThe Stones of Venice. Volume the First. The Foundations, 1851, Smith, Elder & Co., LondonThe Stones of Venice. Volume the Second. The Sea-stories, 1853, Smith, Elder & Co., London, The Stones of Venice....
Georgr Allen Sunnyside , Orpington, Kent, 1881. Books in Good Condition, condition, tight,spine intact, no pulling. Boards and text clean and bright. THE STONES OF VENICE WAS REVISED , EDITED AND ISSUED IN A NEW "TRAVELLERS" EDITION"

This special First edition has been signed by Michael Crichton.
Frontispiece and interior illustrations by Robert Wisneiwski were specially commissioned by the Franklin Library for this edition. The acid paper used in this book conforms with the guidelines for permanence and durability set by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute.The book is hand signed by the author and features premium hand-cut full leather boards with a distinct cover design in ornate 22-karat gold gild. The spine is hubbed with raised horizontal ridges formed in the leather. There are marbled endpapers with a sewn in matching satin bookmark. The pages are gold gilded to protect against dust and moisture and the paper used is acid neutral to last generations without discoloring. A total of 201 First Editions were issued by the Franklin Library from 1983 until they ceased publishing in 2000. These books are high collectible and are only available on the secondary market. They truly… Read More

"Entertaining, and in the best sense of the word, unsettling." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Fueled by a powerful curiosity--and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close-up--Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling. This is a record of those travels--an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction. From the Paperback edition.

Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery -- the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry. As the group… Read More