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  Mythopedia - A Brief Compendium...

  Adrienne Mayor

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  From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders—and disasters—of the natural world 
   
  Mythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, this delightfully entertaining book takes you around the world to explore sunken kingdoms and lost cities, accursed mountains and treacherous terrains, and lethal lakes and singing sand dunes, explaining the historical background and latest science underlying each tale. 
   
  As soon as humans invented language, they told stories to explain mysterious things they observed around them—on land, in the seas, and in the skies. Even though these tales are expressed in poetic or supernatural language, they contain surprisingly accurate insights and even eyewitness descriptions of catastrophic events millennia ago. Drawing on her unique insights as a pioneer in the exciting new field of geomythology, Adrienne Mayor describes how cultural memories of tsunamis, volcanic disasters, and other massive geological events can reach back thousands of years as the stories were preserved, elaborated, told, and retold across generations. She shows how geomythology is expanding our understanding of our planet’s history over eons, revealing the human desire to explain nature and weave imaginative stories intertwined with keen observation, rational speculation, and memory. 
   
  Mythopedia is a compendium of many marvels, from the Hindu monkey god Hanuman and his army of bridge-building primates to the terrifying sand demon Shensha shen of China, the gnawing glaciers of Austria, and the vengeful fish-headed snake god Nyami Nyami of Africa’s Zambezi River.

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  Your Magical Garden

  Clare Gogerty

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  Discover how to awaken the magic of the elements in your outdoor space through thoughtful planting, careful planning of features and simple spells and rituals.
  
  Modern witchcraft is a nature-based discipline, harnessing the power of plants, the spirit of the land, the benefits of each season and the cycle of nature. Inspired by the Five Elements – Spirit, Air, Fire, Water and Earth – and based on author Clare Gogerty's own experience, Your Magical Garden will encourage you to look at your outdoor space with a witch's eye. Each chapter is based on one of the Five Elements and offers details about the element and its potency, how to work with it in your garden, what plants are associated with it, and corresponding remedies, rituals and spells. You will learn how to create spiritual features, such as a moon gate, leaf mandala, scrying pool and fire pit, as well as ways to care for nature, such as rewilding to create a haven for plants and wildlife. Discover the wonder of re-enchanting your garden, however small, and creating a place of contemplation, meditation and connection with the earth.

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  A Connecticut Yankee in King...

  Mark Twain

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  "What happens when a 19th-century mechanic becomes the most powerful man in Camelot?"
  
  Meet Hank Morgan, a savvy superintendent at a Hartford carriage factory. After a blow to the head, he wakes up not in a hospital, but in 6th-century England. Armed with the knowledge of gunpowder, electricity, and the printing press, Hank—now known as "The Boss"—decides to modernize King Arthur's kingdom. From using a solar eclipse to "magic" his way out of an execution to introducing bicycles to knights in shining armor, Hank's adventures are riotously funny. But beneath the comedy lies a sharp examination of power, technology, and the stubbornness of human nature.
  
  Satire at Its Sharpest: Twain uses Hank's journey to lampoon the "romantic" view of the Middle Ages popular in his time. He exposes the brutal reality of the feudal system and the church's grip on the peasantry, while simultaneously questioning whether "progress" and technology truly make men better.
  
  A Pioneering Time Travel Tale: One of the first major works to explore the "Connecticut Yankee" trope, this novel sets the stage for the entire time-travel genre. Watch as the magic of Merlin is challenged by the "magic" of science, leading to a climax that is as shocking as it is unforgettable.
  
  Experience the wit that defined American literature. Purchase "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" today.

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  Naughty Medieval Embroidery

  Tanya Bentham

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  Naughty Medieval Embroidery comes with an adult warning. This practical book explains a range of techniques used in medieval embroidery from simple stem stitch to more complicated silk and goldwork. However, rather than the usual examples of flowers and shields, it includes more colourful aspects of medieval life from cheeky demons to penis-picking nuns. This book is a wonderful romp for embroiderers who dare to enjoy stitching some alternative pieces. Clear step-by-step instructions to over 16 projects which progress in difficulty, Practical advice on design and stitching, and tips on pitfalls to avoid, Informed detail on the projects, plus a lot of encouragement and good cheer. Over 600 illustrations support the text, including templates for the projects

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  Ring the Hill

  Tom Cox

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  A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked 'Quite A Lot Of Hills' where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are. Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill - whether it's a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump - as a starting point for one of Tom's characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations. Tom's lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.

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  Japan Travel Guide Tokyo Kyoto...

  Travel Guide Society

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  You have been saving for this trip for years, and the closer it gets, the bigger it feels. Which rail pass, which side of Kyoto, what happens when the menu is only in Japanese, and how do you avoid spending your one precious week standing in the same queues as everyone else? This is the planning companion that settles all of it in your head before you ever board the plane. You walk Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and the Japanese Alps district by district, hear replayable perfect-day itineraries you can actually remember, and get blunt calls on what to skip and which back-door alternatives locals quietly use instead. Trains, ryokan nights, konbini breakfasts, bathhouse manners and ordering ramen without a word of Japanese all become simple, step-by-step and calm. You land already knowing how the country works, so your first morning feels like a return rather than a scramble. Press play, and start building the trip you have been imagining.

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