The Sonnets of Petrarch presents Francesco Petrarch’s poems in the original Italian alongside selected English translations
containing Cities of the Plain
was first published in 1954 by Collins and immediately recognized as a landmark in European ornithology
The book won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award
Five vintage children's classics in a softly worn palette of pale gray and taupe
They Told Mr. Hakluyt, Frank Knight, 1964 Happy Easter The Sonnets of Petrarch presentsThey Told Mr. Hakluyt by Frank Knight, published by Macmillan & Co in 1964, is a selection of tales drawn from Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation, with explanatory notes. This hardcover brings Elizabethan era exploration narratives to life for younger readers. The chapters cover expeditions ranging from the search for the Northeast Passage to China, to voyages through the Mediterranean,