Author: John Batchelor

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The major port …

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. As the work wa …

This collection of magnificent original full-color paintings accurately depicts 100 amazing ships — from the royal barge of the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops (2657 B.C.) and the Viking ships that vis …

We are born with some human instincts, but we have no real knowledge of what this crazy world of ours is all about, so we have to turn to our parents for some primary knowledge and this may be knowle …

This substantial collection includes contributions from leading international Shakespeare scholars such as Tom Craik, Philip Edwards, Ing A-Stina Ewbank, R.A. Foakes, G.K. Hunter, Kenneth Muir, A.D. …

An insightful look into the culture, religion, and magic of the native people of Japan: the Ainu. John Batchelor gives a first-hand account of the Ainu people who are indigenous to the Northern Japan …

An entertaining account of an extraordinary cultural and historical event: – the establishment by one highly intelligent woman of a salon of the arts in a beautiful country house in Northumberland. W …

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria s favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history:he ski …

Published in 1900, Conrad’s Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first ‘modern’ novel. This important full study of the book, originally published in 1988, emphasizes the outstanding historical a …

Published in 1900, Conrad’s Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first ‘modern’ novel. This important full study of the book, originally published in 1988, emphasizes the outstanding historical a …

The Aino people of Japan are very little known and where treated as savages when discovered by western travellers. Their religion was rich and cultured and this book opens the eyes of the reader to a …