A surprising story of obsession, necessity, invention and adventure. One could really turn the title around for ice has preserved human history as few other mediums have.
Many readers will remember Daniel Yergin's brilliant history of oil Prize, but that was 30 years ago and things look pretty different now. Here is the backdrop to Marriott & Macalister's sup... read more
Bazaars in Tabriz, laxatives in Venice, sheep growing on trees and other marvels: an intrepid journey into the medieval mind and its furnishings, based on travellers accounts from Iceland to... read more
A deeply personal social history. From ancient Greece to 70s' New York, from Diogenes to her father, Eberstadt explores how people have used their bodies to challenge the world around them.
We're very keen on this illustrated book on a few of the world's most interesting bookshops because it features Sandoe's, with some attempt by JdeF to describe what is distinctive about us.
Forty of these remarkable horticultural institutions throughout the world, including Norway, Morocco, Kyoto, Kew, Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Malaysia...
The director of the Bodleian includes some of the US president's deleted tweets in an historical survey that ranges from the Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers. The surprise is tha... read more
Great cities around the world as they once were, and now - C9th BC Thebes in Egypt compared with modern Luxor, Constantinople and Istanbul, London at the time of the Great Fire and since, et... read more