Barbara Hodgson

While traveling through North Africa, a traveler named Lydia develops a mysterious mark on her hand that expands into a strange map, after which she disappears, in a profusely illustrated, unusually constructed novel. A first novel. IP.

The Tattooed Map

Presents accounts of world travel by women over the past three hundred years.

Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers

No Place for a Lady

Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient

Dreaming of East

Armed only with a centuries-old map, some money, and a sailboat, modern-day explorer and natural historian Hippolyte Webb heads off in search of Auroras, a group of islands in the South Atlantic last spotted two hundred years ago.

An Illustrated Novel

Hippolyte's Island

Nick Bantock

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

An illustrated guide to a surrealist Paris. At the Cinema l'Ange des Sables, they show only movies shot in the desert, while in the Cafe Dada you insert food into an automatic dispenser and get money. By the author of The Red Shoes.

A Wayward Guide

Paris Out of Hand

The lives of shadows

Reisende Frauen 1650 bis 1900

Die Krinoline bleibt in Kairo - Sonderausgabe

Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confessions of Thomas De Quincy and insinuated itself into the lives and works of writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Lord Byron, Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, the Brontës, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia.

The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine, and Patent Medicines

In the Arms of Morpheus

A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon

Opium

"In The Sword that Pierced My Soul, a fictionalized account of the life of Mary, author B.J. Hodgson details what it would have been like to be the mother of Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah, showing that though Mary was the Lord's mother, she was not unlike mothers the world over -- with an undying love for her child"--Cover, p. [4].

The Sword That Pierced My Soul

A traveler finds a home in Damascus and fights to keep it through two ruinous wars in a unique novel: “Page-turning intrigue and extremely readable prose.” —Toronto Globe & Mail In the spring of 1914, a restless young man leaves England for a tour of the exotic east. A bit of Egypt, a glimpse of Syria, a nod to Constantinople—that’s all that was supposed to happen. Instead, Julian Beaufort becomes mesmerized. Wandering in idle admiration through the labyrinthine streets of Damascus, he stumbles upon Bait Katib, a house that takes possession of his heart. It is elegant; it is ancient; and it is, after a bit of negotiation with the owner, his. He has every intention of staying there for the rest of his life. But the world doesn’t relinquish its hold so easily. Two bloody wars—one in Europe and one in Syria—leave Julian wounded and the city of Damascus in ruins. He returns from battle to find his precious house still standing, but no longer entirely his. It seems someone else may be occupying the shadows of Bait Katib. A mystery, a love story, and a journey to a sepia-toned past, Barbara Hodgson’s beautifully illustrated novel will haunt and delight her many devoted readers and tempt legions more to take a guided journey into another world. “A mysterious, mesmerizing tale . . . an exquisite excursion back into history, borne on the author’s keen imagination and creativity.” —Booklist (starred review)

The Lives of Shadows

With its genius for art and culture, there is no country in the world as wonderfully civilized (and civilizing) as Italy. But seething below this surface is a long and shadowy history of corruption, cruelty, and the generally bizarre. For centuries it has been overrun by waves of invaders, all contributing their own questionable bits of culture, and all wantonly adding to the confusion. So, how is a poor visitor supposed to make sense of this anarchic place? Co-creator of the cult favorite Paris Out of Hand, Barbara Hodgson has neatly brushed away the chaos and assembled an eclectic treasury of forgotten and overlooked oddities: long-lost popes, bloodthirsty mercenaries, tempestuous artists, and inexplicable follies. Italy Out of Hand is not a traditional guidebook, with hotel addresses and hours of operation. Rather, it is an idiosyncratic tour of a country that is too overwhelming and extravagant for most of us to comprehend without a little guidance. Illustrated with an equally eclectic selection of photographs, portraits, and art, Italy Out of Hand is the perfect companion for those who like their truths to be stranger than fiction.

A Capricious Tour

Italy Out of Hand

Looks at the history rats have shared with humans examining their role as scientific instrument, carrier of disease, enemy, and pet, and includes scientific facts, quotations, medieval engravings, and pictures from films and comics

A Perverse Miscellany

The Rat

This tells of some of the travelling women of the West such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isabel Burton wife of Richard Burton, and other ladies who sometimes wore Eastern clothing as it gave them more freedom. The romance of the East is penetrated by the.

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