Product Description: This work establishes the chronology and provenance of the early mediaeval tales known today as the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi". Although they have been justly described as 'fundamentally the stories of the old Brittonic gods from whom the leading Welsh dynasties claimed descent', which makes their principal subject-matter archaic and in principle timeless, Tolstoy shows that often seemingly incongruous and contradictory passages reflect details of historical events in Britain and Ireland during the first two decades of the eleventh century...read more

Product Description: A limited-edition, slipcased hardcover including a signed print by Geoff Hunt: the design, construction, and careers—in history and in fiction—of Jack Aubrey's favorite command.There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels...read more

Product Description: The design, construction, and careers—in history and in fiction—of Jack Aubrey’s favorite command.There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels...read more

A first English translation of Tolstoy's original and unpublished version as completed in 1866 is a shorter and more narrative draft of the book's first incarnation that offers insight into its evolution prior to the addition of the writer's philosophical and historical meditations. 50,000 first printing.

Patrick O'Brian was an enigmatic personality, a gifted biographer and author, friend of Picasso, and creator of the now well-known Aubrey-Maturin series of 20 novels about Nelson's Royal Navy.