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Portrait of a Jew By: Albert Memmi A first English edition hardcover published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1963 Brown cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete but with nick & tear to spine & bookends a reading copy Postage within South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation

 HARD COVER BOOK WITH DUST JACKET. THE CONTENTS ARE NEAT AND CONTAINS BEAUTIFUL SKETCHES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK! THIS CHARMING BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF THE MOTHER CITY, ITS ORIGINS AND ITS FOUNDERS, AND ITS GROWTH TO ITS PRESENT IMPORTANT STATUS...  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Previously published as Mandela's Way Written by the co-author of international bestseller Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man presents fifteen powerful lessons on life and leadership based on the life and work of Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013), whose fight against apartheid in South Africa has become an enduring example of resistance against injustice and oppression. A recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, Mandela is a man who truly changed the course of world history and is arguably the most inspirational figure of the past century. Stengel spent almost three years with Mandela working on his bestselling autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, and through that process became a close friend. Written with the blessing of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, to which the author will donate a percentage of his royalties, Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man is an inspirational book of wisdom that will encourage people of all ages to look within themselves to improve their lives, to reconsider the things they take for granted, and to think about the legacy they leave behind. Features Summary Presents powerful lessons on life and leadership based on the life and work of Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013), whose fight against apartheid in South Africa has become an enduring example of resistance against injustice and oppression. Author Richard Stengel Publisher Virgin Books Release date 20120401 Pages 243 ISBN 0-7535-1934-8 ISBN 13 978-0-7535-1934-9

Hardcover with d/j (large format) in very good condition. Binding is solid and clean inside. Published 1995 with 192 pages. Illustrated with beautiful photographs -  taking the reader through this unique country in Africa; the snows of Mount Kenya at he equator, the national parks and the people. Covered with a removable plastic film. Postage in RSA = R58.00

Hardcover with d/j (large format) in very good condition. Binding is solid and clean inside. Published 1995 with 192 pages. Illustrated with beautiful photographs -  taking the reader through this unique country in Africa; the snows of Mount Kenya at the equator, the national parks and the people. Covered with a removable plastic film. Postage in RSA = R58.00

  Author(s): Jeremy Paxman  Title:      The English - A Portrait of a People  ISBN:  0 14 029040 0  Publisher: Penguin  This Edition:  Penguin edition of 1999, 2nd printing  Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1998 (Michael Joseph)  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  307  Weight: 178g  Condition:   Very good   

  Author(s): James Joyce  Title:      The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  ISBN:  586 04475 2  Publisher:  Panther  This Edition: Panther edition of 1977, second printing  Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1916  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  228  Weight: 160g  Condition:   An older copy, though still in good condition   

  The perfect portrait guide. How to photograph people  by Michael Busselle and David Wilson Published by RotoVision SA 2002 First Edition Handcover This hardcover book is in an 'as new' condition. No writing or marks can be found anywhere.         

Black Portrait of an African Journey By: Paul Collins A hardcover edition published by EErdmans in 1971 Brown leatherette covers with black writing to the spine & front cover, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation  

 Gold Fields  A Centenary Portrait  (Consolidated Gold Fields) Paul Johnson; Hardcover; published by Weidenfeld  & Nicolson Ltd, 1987 ; ISBN 0 29 7 78967 8 ; No. of  Pages; 256  Book and Dust Jacket very good condition, no inscritions, no damage. For postage via SA PO   with a tracking no. and within S A please add R50.00   alternatively via Postnet to Postnet for a total combined weight of up to 5kg please add R104.00. Buyers from outside of  S A can contact me for a postal quote.    

  Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography  by Jeff Smith Published by Amherst Media Inc. 2008 Paperback This paperback book is in an 'as new' condition.          

KRUGER  PORTRAIT OF A NATIONAL PARK by DAVID PAYNTER with WILF NUSSEY; First Edition First Edition 1987  (ISBN  186812 031 7 Published by Southern Book Publishers. No. of Pages; 287 This book is in very good condition with only minor shelfwear. The pages are clean and tightly bound.There is an inscription neatly written on the first free page when this book was given as a gift in 1988. It appears that this edition did not include a dust jacket. Many thanks. Please see all  the photos pasted below... Note that I have listed a number of other books n KNP Kruger National Park as separate items including The Getaway Guide to the Kruger National Park Postage; preferably via Postnet to Postnet for a parcel of books of up to 5kg then please add R100.00 (additional books may be included - up to 5kg OR VIA SA PO  - OPTION 1   then please add R65.00   Or PAXI  which is Pep Stores to YOUR CLOSEST  Pep Stores  Delivery around 9 days Please ADD R55.00   please add under option 1 and advise your closest PEP  in the " notes "     game reserve national park northern transvaal gauteng game wild animals nature KNP     

Dimensions: 30cm x 25cm x 2cm. Hardcover with d/j in very good condition. Clean inside and solidly bound. Published 1990 by Struik with 156 pages and beautifully illustrated with colour photographs. Soweto tells the story of the events and the people involved in the struggle. Postage in RSA = R58.00

Author - Don Whillans and Alick Ormerod. Binding - Hardcover. Evidence of insect damage on edges of blue cloth boards. Edge-wear. Book Condition - Good. Contents and b/w photographs clean and firmly bound. Foxing to top, fore- and lower page edges with light foxing to paste-downs. Book Number - QB-010224 Edition - 1st edition. Jacket Condition - Good to fair. Edge-wear. Small tide mark on lower spine edge. Location - Kalk Bay Shop Published Year - 1971 Published Place - London Publisher - William Heinemann Ltd Size - 8vo. 266pp.   "Don Whillans was in the vanguard of a tough new breed of climbers who emerged in the early 1950s." From his diaries, the author has reconstructed his famous climbs, capturing the flavour of climbing and climbers. Inscription on ffep dated '....Xmas 1971."  

First edition published by Hugh Keartland in 1976. Book and dust jacket still in great condition with only a gift inscription on the front end paper.    

Published Johannesburg, W.E. Hortor and Co., 1913 Very good with rough cut edges foxed and name on front free endpaper. Frontispiece portrait. Secure packaging and tracked postage only R45. We are Treasure House, an established brick and mortar bookshop selling books from the same address in the greater Cape Town area for over 15 years.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days This is the One is a fascinating insight into the mindset and winning temperament of the recently retired Sir Alex Ferguson, the most success manager in English football. When This Is The One was first published in 2007 it was hailed by Michael Crick as 'one of the all-time Manchester United classics' and featured by The Times in their quest to find the 'Best Ever 50 Sports Books'. Written over the course of two eventful and controversial seasons, it offers a unique portrait of Sir Alex Ferguson from Daniel Taylor's position behind the scenes as a football writer covering Manchester United for the Guardian. During the 2005-06 season, Taylor saw Ferguson at one of the lowest ebbs of his quarter of a century in charge, with a failing team, explosive fallouts with Roy Keane and Ruud van Nistelrooy, a disenchanted fan-base and speculation that he might be forced out of the job. The season that followed demonstrated why Ferguson deserves to be seen as the greatest manager the modern game has produced, with Manchester United deposing Chelsea as Premier League champions and eventually seeing off Jose Mourinho. Ferguson would later call it the 'greatest achievement' of his time at England's biggest football club. This Is The One is the close-up, warts-and-all account of what happened during those two helterskelter seasons - the excruciating lows and the exhilarating highs. It is also a fascinating exploration of the many different facets of Ferguson himself, from his infamous 'hairdryer' treatment to the softer, more humane side of the most successful manager in the business. Features Summary Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired after 26 years in May 2013, is the most successful manager English football has eveer seen. This Is The One offers a fascinating portrait of Sir Alex Ferguson from Daniel Taylor's unique vantage point as a football writer covering the club for the Guardian.. Author Daniel Taylor Publisher Aurum Press Ltd Release date 20080725 Pages 304 ISBN 1-84513-354-4 ISBN 13 978-1-84513-354-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days In the first half of the nineteenth century, Southern Africa was a jumble of British colonies, Boer republics and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. Into this frontier world came the Reitz family, Afrikaner gentry from the Cape, who settled in Bloemfontein and played a key role in the building of the Orange Free State. Frank Reitz, successively chief justice and modernising president of the young republic, went on to serve as State Secretary of the Transvaal Republic. In 1899, he stood shoulder to shoulder with President Paul Kruger to resist Britain's war of conquest in Southern Africa. At the heart of this tale is the extraordinary life of Deneys Reitz, third son of Frank Reitz and Bianca Thesen. The young Reitz's account of his adventures in the field during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), published as Commando, became a classic of irregular warfare. After a period of exile in Madagascar, he went on become one of South Africa's most distinguished lawyers, statesmen and soldiers. Martin Meredith interweaves Reitz's experiences, taken from his unpublished notebooks, with the wider story of Britain's brutal suppression of Boer resistance. Concise and readable, Afrikaner Odyssey is a wide-ranging portrait of an aristocratic Afrikaner family whose achievements run like fine thread through these turbulent times, and whose presence is still marked on the South African landscape. Features Summary Concise and readable, Afrikaner Odyssey is a wide-ranging portrait of an aristocratic Afrikaner family whose achievements run like fine thread through these turbulent times... Author Martin Meredith Publisher Jonathan Ball Publishers Release date 20170220 Pages 215 ISBN 1-86842-773-0 ISBN 13 978-1-86842-773-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING. THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career. When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, a TV audience of up to 3 billion people was once again gripped by the story of the world's most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see. In Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking biography, backed up with much detailed new research specially commissioned for this book, we get a stunning portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, we also learn about his personal life, his finances, his faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit. An epic tale of a fighter who became the world's most famous pacifist, Ali: A Life does full justice to an extraordinary man. `Ali: A Life is the business - 640 pages of patient scholarship and intelligent reassessment written in crackly prose' Giles Smith, The Times `[A] richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait... Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Features Summary The first truly definitive biography of Muhammad Ali, the most iconic and significant sporting figure of the twentieth century Author Jonathan Eig Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20181001 Pages 640 ISBN 1-4711-5595-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4711-5595-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogota with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, and sewed garments and decorative cloths for church. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually coming to have a career as an artist and to befriend the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Far from self-pitying, the portrait that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long. Features Summary The extraordinary, posthumously published memoir in letters of a Colombian artist whose writing was championed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author Emma Reyes (Author), Daniel Alarcon (Translator), Daniel Alarcon (Introduction by) Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release date 20170824 Pages 192 ISBN 1-4746-0659-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4746-0659-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days The nine haunting stories of "Monkfish Moon," a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, announce the appearance of an extraordinary writing talent. Published to universal acclaim in England, these stories expertly reveal lives shaped by the luxuriant tropical surroundings of Sri Lanka and disoriented by that country's resurgent violence. Gunesekera describes a kind of paradise in which a sudden moment of silence in a city is cause for fear, where civil war disrupts a marriage thousands of miles away, and where "building up"--of businesses, homes, relationships--is more often than not swiftly and violently brought down. Written with a startling grace, this first, hugely promising collection creates a vivid portrait of a largely unchronicled corner of the world. Features Summary In these stories, the acclaimed author of the Reef describes his homeland of Sri Lanka--a kind of paradise in which a sudden moment of silence in a city is cause for fear... Author Romesh Gunesekera Publisher The New Press Release date 19930130 Pages 138 ISBN 1-56584-077-1 ISBN 13 978-1-56584-077-5

  Buchanan Portfolio of Characters   from Charles   Dickens Valuable antiquaria A portfolio (copy) of Dickens characters immortalized by Frank Reynolds in the early 1900’s. The collection was owned by the James Buchanan Company (Distillers) in London, England, and in the late 1920’s they gave their permission for this one time collection to be copied and presented in a fantastic portfolio. Illustrated by Frank Reynolds, Published by James   Buchanan   Company, (circa) 1925.    The complete set of 15 prints contains;   Title Print The Old Black Swan Distillery [Barnaby Rudge] 1790 & 1913;   Charles Dickens Portrait;  Mr Pickwick [Pickwick Papers];  Samuel Weller [Pickwick Papers];  Tony Weller [Pickwick Papers];   Jingle [Pickwick Papers];   Mr. Winkle On The Ice [Pickwick Papers];  Mr Micawber [David Copperfield];  Gabriel Varden [Barnaby Rudge];   Dolly Varden [Barnaby Rudge];  Cheeryble Brothers [Nicholas Nickleby];   Captain Cuttle [Dombey & Sons];  Montague Tigg [Martin Chuzzelewit]  The Artful Dodger [Oliver Twist];  Trotty Veck [The Chimes]   Condition: Loose sleeves   bound with ribbon in a vellum envelope type cover. 30x50cm  Each colourful photo (immaculate condition) pasted loosely on handcrafted paper. Green  folder  covers age frayed,  shelf frayed and marks,  pages  edges age  frayed, ribbon biding age deteriorated, one  ribbon missing.  Packaging and Postage R75 (in S.A.) due to size. POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON FRIDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH AS TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE. Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R48, and R10 per extra book after 1 kg. Do browse through my PoggioBooks BOB page. https://poggiobooks.wordpress.com/   

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. Struggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities, Basch and his colleagues, under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known only as the Fat Man, must learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings. A phenomenon ever since it was published, The House of God was the first unvarnished, unglorified, and uncensored portrait of what training to become a doctor is truly like, in all its terror, exhaustion and black comedy. With more than two million copies sold worldwide, it has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels ever written. With an introduction by John Updike" Features Summary At once hilarious and brutally honest, this novel reaches beyond the white lab coat and reveals what doctors, nurses, and students actually endure. "The House of God" has done for medicine what "M*A*S*H" did for warfare.. Author Samuel Shem (Author), John Updike (Introduction by) Publisher Penguin USA Release date 20100907 Pages 380 ISBN 0-425-23809-1 ISBN 13 978-0-425-23809-7

 X3 BOOK'S - (P. C. WREN) Book title:   BEAU GESTE / BEAU SABREUR / BEAU IDEAL Published by:   P. C. WREN Condition & Descriptions: BEAU IDEAL with dust cover, 348 pages,  some wear and                                                     tear marks - see photo, On the endpaper is inscription in pen. BEAU SABREUR with no dust cover, 342 pages, some wear and tear marks on top and bottom spine, expected spotting to interior, On the endpaper and next blank cover is inscription in pen - see photo. BEAU GESTE with no dust cover, wear and tear on the bottom spine, 579 pages, inscription in pen on the endpaper and the next blank page - see photo, Portrait of the Author on the Frontispiece, Illustrations in colour and black & white, with some headpieces. POSTAGE R55-00  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais's In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle is a modern sports writing classic. Now expanded and updated with a new epilogue, Blais's book tells the story of a season in the life of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes, a powerhouse girls' high school basketball team from a small western Massachusetts college town. The Hurricanes were a talented team with a near-perfect record, but for five straight years, when it came to the crunch of the playoffs, they somehow lacked the scrappy, hard-driving desire to go all the way. Now, led by senior guards Jen Pariseau, a three-point specialist, and Jamila Wideman, an All-American phenom, this was the year to prove themselves. It was a season to test their passion for the sport and their loyalty to each other, and a chance to discover who they really were. As an off-season of summer jobs and basketball camps turns to fall, as students arrive and the games begin, Blais charts the ups and downs of the team and paints a portrait of the wider Amherst community, which comes to revel in the athletic exploits of their girls. Finally, a women's team was getting the attention they deserve. And the Hurricanes were richly deserving; these teenage girls are fierce and funny, smart and ambitious, and they are the heart of this gripping book. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle is a classic sports book, a timeless look at girls' athletics. Features Summary A modern sports writing classic by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle tells the story of the 1992-1993 championship season of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes Author Madeleine Blais Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Release date 20170710 Pages 272 ISBN 0-8021-2145-4 ISBN 13 978-0-8021-2145-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The Great Storm of 1987 is etched firmly into the national memory. Everyone who was there that night remembers how hurricane force winds struck southern Britain without warning, claiming eighteen lives, uprooting more than fifteen million trees and reshaping the landscape for future generations. Thirty years on, the discovery of an old photograph inspires the author to make a journey into that landscape: weaving her own memories and personal experiences with those of fishermen and lighthouse keepers, rough sleepers and refugees, she creates a unique portrait of this extraordinary event and a moving exploration of legacy and loss. Features Summary Published to mark the 30th anniversary of The Great Storm of October 1987, WINDBLOWN is in the best tradition of English writing about our relationship with the natural world. Author Tamsin Treverton Jones Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Release date 20170928 Pages 272 ISBN 1-4736-5698-2 ISBN 13 978-1-4736-5698-7

Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel Coward by Paul Johnson, 2010 Softcover, 228 pages Published 2010 by Harper The author of the masterly volumes Intellectuals, Creators, and Heroes returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in history. In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In Creators, he examined a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in Heroes, he brought together a galaxy of commanding figures from the annals of Western history. Now Johnson turns his impressive intellect and piercing insight to the finest wits of the Western world. His is a selective survey across history and includes a diverse cast of legendary humorists who got a grand kick out of life, including Benjamin Franklin and the Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens and Damon Runyon, W. C. Fields and Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and James Thurber. Including darkest humor, broad satire, bawdy wit, biting sarcasm, and more, this entertaining and erudite collection showcases some of our sharpest minds reflecting on the human condition's follies, pretensions, and foibles with that greatest of gifts: humor.

UNISA, 2005. Soft cover. 58 pages. Good, clean condition. Corners have some wear. Under 1kg. The new Hidden Histories Series, "The Making of an African Communist: Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana and the Communist Party of South Africa 1927 - 1939" by Bob Edgar edited by Raymond Suttner. Phil Bonner, Head: History Department, University of the Witwatersrand had this to say: This work makes a very important contribution to the understanding of opposition politics in the interwar period. It is based almost exclusively on original research by the author, including extensive interviews with Mofutsanyana. It throws new light on the internal politics of the Communist Party, in particular the relationship between blacks and whites in the organisation. It also gives a personal and political portrait of an important African leader about whom very little has been published.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity. Poignant and lyrical, it tells the story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marriage. Critics have praised it as a first-rate narrative and a forerunner of the modern novel. Newly available in this inexpensive edition, "The Awakening" offers modern readers superb characterization and an insightful portrait of a woman's awakening to physical passion. New introductory Note. Features Summary See 'Bhagavad Gita'. Author Kate Chopin Publisher Dover Publications Inc. Release date 19931104 Pages 116 ISBN 0-486-27786-0 ISBN 13 978-0-486-27786-8

Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history. This collection by "architectural history's most beguiling essayist" (as Reinhold Martin calls the author in the book's foreword) illuminates the unfamiliar, the arcane, the obscure -- phenomena largely missing from architectural and landscape history. These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, unvisited shores, plagiarized tabernacles. Taken together, these texts offer a group portrait of how certain things fall apart. We read about the statistical investigation of lightning strikes in France by the author-astronomer Camille Flammarion, which leads Eigen to reflect also on Foucault, Hamlet, and the role of the anecdote in architectural history. We learn about, among other things, Olmsted's role in transforming landscape gardening into landscape architecture; the connections among hedging, hedge funds, the High Line, and GPS bandwidth; timber-frame roofs and (spider) web-based learning; the archives of the Houses of Parliament through flood and fire; and what the 1898 disappearance and reappearance of the Trenton, New Jersey architect William W. Slack might tell us about the conflict between "the migratory impulse" and "love of home." Eigen compares his essays to the "gathering up of seeds that fell by the wayside." The seedlings that result create in the reader's imagination a dazzling display of the particular, the contingent, the incidental, and the singular, all in search of a narrative. Editorial Reviews Review With great wit and extraordinary knowledge -- skillfully supported by writing that makes us pay nothing yet delivers everything -- this book guides us into the rich subject of accident and anecdote as forms of historical criticism. Riveting accounts of landscapes, architectures, and the thickness of life bring the central epistemological dilemmas of our time into exquisite relief. A brilliant book. (Catherine Ingraham, Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute; author of Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity) The owl of Minerva flies at dusk. Blam! Blam! Silence. The little soft-bodied creatures are safe again. Edward Eigen has written a book of crepuscular erudition, architectural history as would have been dreamed by the Lovecraftian lovechild of Edward Gorey, Laurence Sterne, and Jules Verne. It is baroque, wry, pessimistic, mannered, manorial, and seems to have all the time in the world. I have no idea what the world we are entering will make of it, but I am glad it has been published, since it can perhaps function as an idiosyncratic time capsule: this is what it was like to have a beautiful mind on the watershed of the twenty-first century. (D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History and History of Science, Princeton University; coauthor of Keywords:...Relevant to Academic Life, &c.) Read more About the Author Edward Eigen is Associate Professor of History of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Associate Editor of Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. His writing has appeared in Cabinet, Pamphlet, Grey Room, and other publications. 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