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A Shakespearean Botanical by Margaret Willes
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from... -
The Gardens of the British Working Class by Margaret Willes
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.76This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own... -
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.07An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They... -
Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books by Margaret Willes
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.30An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading, and enjoying books in Britain and America It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until... -
The Making of the English Gardener: Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660 by Margaret Willes
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06The people and publications at the root of a national obsession In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in... -
In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped London by Margaret Willes 9780300273380
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.04The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London,... -
Boater's Weather Guide by Margaret Williams 9780870334177
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.38Sooner or later everyone who ventures out on the water will encounter strong winds and confused seas, fog, thunderstorms, or heavy rain. This book acquaints boaters with the forces that shape... -
Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge by Margaret Willson
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $22.69Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thuridur Einarsdottir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing... -
Boater's Weather Guide by Margaret Williams 9780870336249
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.33Sooner or later everyone who ventures out on the water will encounter strong winds and confused seas, fog, thunderstorms, or heavy rain. This book acquaints boaters with the forces that shape... -
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain by Margaret Willson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality-and who also solved one of the... -
Dr Johnson's London Liza Picard 9781842127292
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his... -
Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life... -
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Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard 9781842127308 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.01How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life... -
Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People by Kasia Boddy 9780300264791
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure"From the meaning of carnations in Sex and the City... -
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it "Lively and arresting. . . . [Lincoln] is as confident in handling the royal...