“b a farnsworth”

While visiting the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., four contemporary children are transported back in time through the power of their imaginations to experience history firsthand -- Stories creatively juxtapose modern-day kids with fascinating historical settings and people.-- A histori... More

The story of Salish Indian Walking Coyote and his efforts to save the vanishing buffalo herds from extinction in the United States during the 1870s and 1880s.... More

Where the Mississippi begins, the river flows north for miles as a clear stream you can cross on stones. Join the author as she shares a journey she made many times as a child growing up in northern Minnesota. In Mississippi Going North, a family of four canoes through pines and birches, enjoying th... More

The first issue of Oriental Stories, edited by Farnsworth Wright, includes work by such "Weird Tales" regulars as Robert E. Howard, Frank Owen, Otis Adelbert Kline, and many more.... More

This volume provides reviews and details of the quality, safety and efficacy for some of the top-selling botanicals worldwide, including black cohosh, chamomile, comfrey, echinacea, garlic, ginkgo, ginseng, kava, milk thistle, St John's wort and valerian. The work was written based on a systematic r... More

In Middle Woodland times (ch. 100 B.C.-A.D.300) the lower Illinois Valley was a cradle of Hopewellian cultural development. This volume assembles and reprints all fifteen of the published seminal pioneer archeological studies of this era and for the first time publishes two important never-before-se... More

Mount Desert, Monhegan Island, Ogunquit, Mount Katahdin, Camden Harbor, the Allagash -- these names evoke varied images of Maine -- images created by such artists as Frederic E. Church, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, and Edward Hopper. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Maine served... More