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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India, over a period from the middle ages to the late eighteenth century. This collection contains all the books in the first series.

Andrew Lang's series of fairy-tale books are some of the fundamental children's reading of the twentieth and late nineteenth century. The stories are not "original": there's no such thing when they were almost without exception passed down orally; but they are in old, not very modernized tellings. Many readers who have only seen or read modern, Disney-fied versions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Snow-White will not recognize some of the darker twists in these tales. For example, in Sleeping Beauty, when the Prince wakes the Princess and marries her, the story is by no means over. The Prince's mother is an Ogress, whom his father married for her wealth, and it's suspected that she likes to eat little children; that "whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to avoid falling upon them". The happy couple have two children, named Day and Morning, and the Ogress decides to dine on them one day when the Prince is away. Yes, it still has a happy ending, but Disney it isn't. The only thing that might have to be explained to a child is the occasional use of vocabulary that is no longer current. Most often this is the use of "thee" and "thou"; but a few other words will crop up. However, they're usually inferable from context, and the stories are marvellous entertainment regardless.

Beneath the floor of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado lies an extensive aquifer, created by sediments from prehistoric Lake Alamosa. Like a farmer irrigating a crop from this underground source, Friends of the Southern Peaks Public Library have tapped creative literary and art work from patrons. This collection speaks to Wind and other forces of nature, Wants & Needs, Gratitude, Memories, Possibilities, Journeys, and Endings.

An enchanted collection of four complete picture book stories, with stunning illustrations. Ideal for sharing with your little one, to celebrate the magic of Christmas. Includes: The Snow Angel The Christmas Bear A Christmas Wish Hurry, Santa!

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. SEPHER YETZIRAH The "Sepher Yetzirah," or "Book of Formation," is perhaps the oldest Rabbinical treatise of Kabalistic philosophy which is still extant. The great interest which has been evinced of 1ate years in the Hebrew Kabalah, and the modes of thought and doctrine allied to it, has induced me to translate this tractate from the original Hebrew texts, and to collate with them the Latin versions of mediaeval authorities; and I have also published An Introduction to the Kabalah which may be found useful to students. GRIMORIUM VERUM THE MOST APPROVED KEYS OF SOLOMON THE HEBREW RABBI WHEREIN THE MOST HIDDEN SECRETS, BOTH NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL ARE IMMEDIATELY EXHIBITED GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL A SYSTEM OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC THE GREAT ARCANUM (The Rites of Ceremonial Magick) THE BLACK PULLET Comprising the Science of Magical Talismans and Rings; the art of Necromancy and the Kabbalah, for conjuring the aerial and infernal spirits, sylphs, undines, and gnomes; for acquiring knowledge of the secret sciences; for discovering treasures, for the gaining of power to command all beings, and for unmasking all evil spells and sorceries GRIMOIRE OF HONORIOUS A grimoire designed for the person who desires to invoke the perverse "Spirits of Darkness".