Originally published early 1900's. The story of Gipsy Petulengro's early life in his own words. The illustrated contents deal with Romany Ways - Poaching - Horse Secrets - Making Caravans - Romany Fights - The English Romany - Romance - Gypsy Magic - Romany Cures - Music - Romany Ways with Dogs - Romany Charms etc. etc. Many of the earliest gypsy books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republish...

Originally published in the 1930s. The author was a Romany who spent many years of his life under the open sky and living off the land. This book will prove of great interest to hunters, ramblers, and campers. Contents Include: General Hints Clothing Pitching Camp Hammocks Equipment Food and Outdoor Cooking Recipes Fires Temporary Ovens Breaking Camp Weather Signs The Romany Filter etc. Illustrated with explanatory drawings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

**Stories to startle, surprise, and satisfy from the world’s number one storyteller . . .“A posthumous treat from a devilishly funny author.”—Entertainment Weekly**How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth more than a million dollars? Here are eleven wicked tales that will keep readers spellbound from the op...

"I had noticed in Madagascar that many things are called Mad. Would you trust yourself to Mad travel (it sounds rather like what I do), eat in Mad cafe or, a real worry for a white-knuckle flyer, take to the skies with Mad Air, as Air Madagascar is generally known?" In all her travels across the globe, Lydia Laube had always wanted to visit the intriguing island of Madagascar and meet its famous residents, the lemurs. So she hops aboard a French cargo ship, replete with cleaver-w...

One of America's most famous woodsmen and nature experts provides classic instructions for roughing it. His advice covers camping, hiking, building a fire, cooking out, shelters, tools and equipment, hunting and fishing, canoeing, and more. "Useful, specific information and suggestions on all aspects of woodcraft." — Moor and Mountain.

In 1871, Marianne North, a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen years and accumulated an extensive and valuable collection of more than eight hundred paintings, which today comprise the esteemed...

It was the malaria that did it. After too many bouts of being laid low with the disease, the doctor at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank told Harry his only chance of defeating the malignant bug would be to live in a cool climate and work out of doors. Harry and Sonia had the money to do it – but should they leave the comfort of Hong Kong and become farmers? With Sonia's brother Guy's help, they did. She says, “Like all people, my life has been a mixture of good a...

Set in the eponymous botanic garden in London on a hot July day, the narrative gives brief glimpses of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed. The story begins with a description of the oval-shaped flowerbed. Woolf mixes the colors of the petals of the flowers, floating to the ground, with the seemingly random movements of the visitors, which she likens to the apparently irregular movements of butterflies.

'My grandmother bought the island. The year was 1947 and she was thirty-three, a couple of years older than I am now. She was the visionary sort of person who can make something magical out of very little.'From the moment that Tilly's grandmother, Mor-mor, set eyes on the rocky outline of Småhølmene, it captured her imagination. Legend has it that she bought the island in exchange for a mink coat.Every summer from then on, she and her young family would escape from their li...

Lydia Davis's collection Almost No Memory is richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self caught in the paradoxical world. In 'Pastor Elaine's Newsletter,' a harried mother studies a Bible passage; in 'Foucault and Pencil,' a troubled analyst on her way home from a session attempts to distract herself with a difficult French...

The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far short of happiness. It must be a floor covered with linoleum or cork carpet, so that toy soldiers and such-like will stand up upon it, and of a color and surface that will take and show chalk marks; the common green- colored cork carpet without a pattern is the best of all