Product Description: cooking with a range / counting sheep / curing drunkenness / finding water / signalling with semaphore / identifying plants and trees/ making and taking tea / natural first aid / using an abacus/ navigating by nature / preparing antidotes to poisoning / predicting the sex of a baby / repairing clothes / curing warts / weather forecasting...read more

This charming book is an engaging introduction to a range of traditional crafts and activities. Almost one hundred skills are described and illustrated, from trout-guddling to lacemaking, beekeeping to drystone walling. Whether wanting to learn a new craft, explore social history, or reminisce about pastimes from a bygone age, readers of all ages will lose themselves inLost Crafts. And with more of us choosing green and ethical lifestyles, there has never been a better time to rediscover these sustainable pursuits.

Covering everything from cryptozoology and the Yeti to witchcraft, earth mysteries, folklore, ghosts, human oddities, the occult, parapsychology, spiritualism, and UFOs, a comprehensive resource looks a wide range of unexplained phenomena in a volume containing more than 1,300 objective, informative, and up-to-date entries.

The most up-to-date dictionary of quotations available, the new edition of Chambers Dictionary of Quotations features generous coverage of recent times and modern figures.

Product Description: Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters provides an invaluable guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English, with over 6,500 entries from novels, plays, and poetry—from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, and Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter...read more

Product Description: Based on the Chambers Book of Facts, the Compact Book of Facts is a handy source of information for use at home, school, or office, with more than 160,000 up-to-date facts arranged under 600 headings.

Product Description: Accurate and up-to-date, this all new single-volume encyclopedia takes an innovative approach to the presentation of information. Material is organized by subject into fourteen major thematic sections, and is attractively presented using diagrams, tables, lists, maps and graphics as well as concise, easy-to-read text...read more

This Scrabble dictionary is designed to be used by all family and recreational players. Derived from 'The Chambers Dictionary', it includes many words suitable for playing Scrabble with friends and family, with the more unusual and rare words omitted.

Provides a listing of synonyms and identifying terms pertaining to persons, places, events, and objects, which are arranged alphabetically and by letter count.