Places & Peoples: General & Pictorial Works

Issues of global warming continue to be relevant, and every day brings front-page stories about the weather, generating new research, raising even ...

New England Views: Coastal Massachusetts is a collection of stunning imagery that defines the characteristics of the region including the seascapes...

When a mining claim on a crumbling cliff of burnt-rose quartzite lured naturalist Jack Nisbet to the northeastern corner of Washington State in 197...

'As a work of descripton and evocation [The Market of Seleukia] is wonderful ... showing us the enthralling interplay of politics, avarice, hate, n...

'We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transporting us to other realms'. Salley VickersMovement is the raison d'etre of New York. In The...

Do you love bike riding with your kids, but are tired of rides that take you in circles around the neighborhood block? Looking for something more e...

The A World to Preserve series brings together breathtaking landscapes, inspiring quotes, and infographics about environmental issues that take the...

Duluth clings to a rocky hillside where clusters of houses nestle amid broad expanses of woods and meadows and where cascading streams tumble towar...

A history memoir and photo album of Jewish summers in the Catskills

Most history books paint Philadelphia as a place of revolutionary greatness, but there exists a forgotten, alternative history of the City of Brot...

New York State has had its share of writers who have, at some point in their careers, taken New York as their subject. The writings compiled here b...

A dramatic account of three centuries of people and ships that sailed the Great LakesA popular history of navigation on the Great Lakes and life on...

An account of Cheltenham from its earliest mention to the town as it is at the beginning of the 21st century. Illustrated with a wide range of phot...

This rich and authoritative chronicle of the Yellowstone Basin covers a span of more than a century and half, from the 1740s, when the Verendryé br...

A voracious reader of dime novels, young John Barrows looked forward to blazing action as an Indian fighter or scout in Montana Territory. But when...

A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer.When i...

This fascinating book of more than 200 photographs from the last 150 years shows local people, buildings and the environment of Bowdon and the neig...

Open moors, deep valleys, ancient villages and roadways: the Peak District nowadays is often looked on as a 'playground' for walkers, climbers and ...

With 200 images, selected from the archives, portraying the city in a bygone age, we embark on an intriguing pictorial journey around Newcastle upo...

From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to...

Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of ...

Raghu Rai's "India" is the India of the everyday - the life of his rural childhood. His photographs talk about the simple people, the village peopl...

New paperback edition of this fascinating look at cosmopolitan Egypt in the “golden years” of travel under the last kings. A tourist perched on a c...

At the turn of the twentieth century John Taylor, a Yorkshire apprentice grocer, was out of work. Half a pound of butter on a table in the front wi...

The Hastings area is famous for the battles that were fought there and most visitors tread the well-worn tourist paths, probably not realising the ...

Haworth and its moors are for ever linked with the name of Bronte, but they also have a fascination in their own right. Peggy Hewitt tells the stor...

This A-Z covering Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire is a delightful tour around the most interesting pubs in the area. ...

Dallas Then and Now is one of the latest revised 'Then and Now' titles in the 3-million selling series from Anova Books. John Neely Bryan...