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Lake District Icons takes a fresh look at these influential figures - including interviews and pictures with some of the area's best-known personalities - and shows how they have been affected by the lakes, mountains and fells around them.

We all have a common denominator. We all would like something easy to follow that could make a difference in the quality of our lives. This book does just that. Mr. Robinson takes us on a journey back in time where we explore the minds of the wisest in ancient times. Although written for the Tai Chi student, Mr. Robinson makes it clear the Tao Te Ching can be a guide for everyone. This is one of those books you can't put down and will find you...

Excerpt from In Garden Orchard and Spinney With a face looking either way, January, the middle month of winter, holds Autumn with one hand and Spring with the other, a queer empty sort of month, when Nature seems to let things alone, and, between the balanced attractions of either season, to stand, in cold neutrality, aloof. The impatient Spring may hazard a week of untimely warmth, and the sparrow, ever ready to be tempted, turn him, uxoriou...

This early work by Phil Robinson was originally published in 1881 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Hunting of the Soko' is a short story about an expedition from Zanzibar that encounters a curious forgotten race. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Steve...

Excerpt from Under the Sun I AM of Opinion that no one living can be considered a greater authority upon the subject of Noah's Ark than my daughter Edith, for on the occasion of her second' birthday (last Thursday), we gave her a Noah's Ark, and her life ever since has been devoted to original researches into the properties of its various inhabitants. Not only does she bathe and feed each individual of the menagerie every day, but She puts No...

This early work by Phil Robinson was originally published in 1893 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Last of the Vampires' is a short story about a discovery of the remains of something that appears to be half-human, and the Amazonian legend that goes along with it. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, includin...

Excerpt from Sinners and Saints: A Tour Across the States, and Round Them, With Three Months Among the Mormons People under a ban - What the Mormon men think of the Anti Polygamy Bill - And what the Mormon women say of poly gamy - Puzzling confidences - Practical plurality a very dull affair - But theoretically a hedge-hog problem - Matrimonial eccentricities - The fashionable milliner fatal to plurality Absurdity of comparing Moslem polygamy...

Excerpt from The Poets and Nature: Reptiles, Fishes, and Insects In order to anticipate the discovery by others that I have omitted some of the Poet's Insects, I avail myself of the Author's privilege of a Preface to say that my list does not contain, except incidentally, any of the beetles (although such notable insects as the "book-worm" and the "death-watch" are of the tribe), any of the "gnats" or wasps, both so cordially detested by the ...

Excerpt from Under the Punkah The Canary, "A bird for thee in silken bands I hold, Whose yellow plumage shines like polished gold. From distant isles the lovely stranger came, And bears the fortunate Canaries' name." - Lyttleton. The Linnet, "The warbling (Philips), chirping (Falconer), artless (Shenstone), merry (Scotf), chanting (Burns), linnet, with unnumbered notes (Cunningham).", Hunting Of The Soko, "My lords, a solemn hunting ...

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Excerpt from Fishes of Fancy: Their Place in Myth, Fable, Fairy-Tale and Folk-Lore, Etc The range of this Handbook is so extensive, that it is obviously impossible to accomplish more than a superficial review of its subjects in the compass of ninety pages. For it traverses Primitive Zoolatry (glancing at Totemism and Sacred Fish-myths), Zoological Mythology, Legendary Art, the Folk-tale of all nations, Fables, the Sciences of Heraldry and Ast...

Excerpt from The Poets Beasts: A Sequel to the Poets Birds There are many who deprecate the lion's coronation as the King of Beasts. But, after all, it should not be forgotten by this noble animal's critics that it is only contended on its behalf that it is the King of Beasts, and, remembering this, it is very difficult, I think, to dispute its claim to monarchy. It may have vassals actually as strong as itself, powerful Warwicks or Burgundie...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...