Illustrations and other aids enhance the comprehension of words and the context in which they are used, and an added reference section contains information about countries of the world, global population and climate, and other topics.

Product Description: Artist Alan James Robinson has trout on his mind. Whether he is hip-deep in a stream watching his line or working at his drawing table, trout challenge his creative interest. Trout of North America features a dozen different paintings, with each species located on a background map showing the area where the elusive fish may be found...read more

Engravings enhance sevennteenth-century French tales that, inspired by Aesop, offer moral lessons (view table of contents)

Product Description: once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... thus begins perhaps the most-quoted poem ever written in the English Language. Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is illustrated with Alen James Robinson's masterful etchings and wood engravings

Product Description: The dramatic life of anglers and their waters.

Product Description: A compendium of instructive and entertaining descriptions of animals culled from five centuries of travelers accounts, natural histories, zoologies and authors. Completed with wonderful illustrations.