Product Description: The 2,500 year old Yi-jing or I Ching, translated as The Book of Changes, is a Chinese work of divination and prophecy. Dating from the 4th century BC, it is traditionally consulted by performing complex routines of dropping bundles of dried grass stalks...read more

Product Description: Search Dogs & Me tells the remarkable story of one man's adventures with his life-saving dogs. For the past forty years, Neil Powell has worked with dogs, in mountain search and rescue, drowned victim recovery, collapsed structure searching, and optical disc and drug detection...read more

Product Description: The English poet George Crabbe, best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, clergyman, botanist, and novelist. An ambitious, resourceful, self-made professional man, he devoted his middle years to his children and his increasingly ill wife, after whose death he embarked, at 60, on an astonishing second life...read more

Product Description: This collection of poems is prepared largely from the author's signed typescripts and includes previously unpublished work.

Product Description: Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for our common language, its registers and tonalities. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: We don't know who, or even if, Homer was. Given threads of internal evidence in the "Odyssey", Robert Graves invents, or discovers, that the author of the poem was a woman, herself part of the epic action. He chooses the beguiling, clear-headed Nausicaa and re-visions the post-Trojan world through her eyes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: From his first wartime collection evoking a generation’s experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids to the consolatory wisdom of poems written later in his life, Great Britain’s Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary...read more

Product Description: Drawing on letters, journals and published writing, this text provides an account of Roy Fuller's life and work. All the books of poetry are discussed and the novels receive attention. A story of Fuller's career also unfolds: provincial schoolboy; solicitor's clerk; law student; wartime Navy radar engineer in England and East Africa; post-war solicitor and legal director of Woolwich Building Society; Oxford Professor of Poetry; BBC Governor; and Chairman of the Arts Council Literature Panel...read more

This fourth collection of poems sets daunting images of mortality against the small, incomparable consolations of human life. There are elegies for Roy Fuller and Adam Johnson. The concluding poems explore ecological themes and celebrate Powell's loved Suffolk land- and seascapes.