Granada — 2014 — The 21st Century Matriarch

It’s time again for the monthly post about eBooks that are freely available on the Internet. The three below are my favorites for July 2014.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV).London: School of Archeology in Egypt, University College and Bernard Quaritch. 1911. Available from Internet Archive here. Because most of the portraits are the face and shoulders - they often have a timeless quality. The report is from Petrie’s work in 1910-1911; it is impressive how quickly the work was published after the dig!

Bayon, Felix (text); Casals, Lluis (photography). The Alhambra of Granada. 2000. Available from Internet Archive here. The book is 191 pages - with a tremendous number of photographs. Take a look at this book with the largest monitor you can find.

Goodale, George L. and Sprague, Isaac. The Wild Flowers of America. Boston: Bradlee Widden. 1886. Available from the Internet Archive here. I can’t resist botanical books from the 1800s. There were a lot of familiar plants in this one. I’ve included a clip of the cone flower page from the book in this post.