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These delightful essays by such luminaries as Dorothy L. Sayers, Vincent Starrett, Ronald A. Knox, and S. C. Roberts form a classic work in Sherlockian scholarship, edited by H. W. Bell. Topics include Holmes’s college career, the medical career of Dr. Watson, Mrs. Hudson’s little-known...

“A traveller in little things . . . which takes you into the villages and hamlets, where you meet and converse with small farmers . . . with other persons who live on the land.” This is a stranger’s astute description of W. H. Hudson during one of his rambles around England—his experiences charmingly captured in this travel narrative.

Sport in het oude Griekenland: wie denkt er niet aan de Olympische Spelen? Maar sport in Hellas is veel meer dan dat: van Homerus tot en met de tijd waarin Griekenland deel uitmaakte van het Romeinse rijk is sport altijd een middel geweest om uit te maken wie de beste was, wie het snelst kon lopen...

This volume presents two books by Frederic W. H. Myers, founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and one of the most influential writers in everything related to parapsychology and unexplained phenomena related to ghosts, apparitions, possessions, and all that sort of phenomena that for ever have fascinated the curiosity of humans.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Curiosities of Superstition - And Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition...

Will Clayton - estranged from his family and former friends – sits alone atop a rest stop picnic table on a rural highway in central Kansas. A half-eaten candy bar, a bottle of water, and the hot Kansas sun keep him company. At fifty-five years of age, the burnt out and disillusioned modern day...

Some Heroes of Travel By W. H. Davenport Adams

The Atlantic Telegraph is a historical book by W. H. Russell.  NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS. First published in 1865.  Published and Distributed in the United States of America by the Naval Institute Press.  Printed in Great Britain

With a career spanning more than half a century, third native Governor-General and National Hero, the Right Excellent Sir Hugh Worrell Springer, solidified his place in Barbadian and Caribbean history, contributing remarkably to Barbadian public education policy and politics.  From his...

W. H. Hudson’s frequent rambles around the English countryside resulted in several captivating travel narratives and helped inspire the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s. A Shepherd’s Life is a collection of Hudson’s impressions of the land and people of the South Wiltshire Downs—including...

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W.H. Griffith Thomas, one of the founders of Dallas Theological Seminary, provides an invaluable resource for pastors, theologians and lay Christians seeking to deepen their study of God’s Word. In a day when Bible literacy is on the decline, no tool could more relevant and useful. “The...

Advantages out of all proportion to the importance of the immediate aim in view are apt to accrue whenever an honest endeavour is made to find an answer to one of those awkward questions which are constantly arising from the natural working of a child's mind. It was an endeavour of this kind which formed the nucleus of the inquiries resulting in the following little essay.

We set great store by activity and busy-ness. We want to be 'in control'. We value what we 'do' more than who we are. So when we become ill, or retire from work, or suffer an enforced period of inactivity, our self-esteem is threatened. We evade, repudiate, or resent experiences of passivity, of waiting....