3 Free eBooks - September 2014

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

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Calvert, Albert Frederick. Southern Spain - Painted by Trevor Haddon. London: A&C Black. 1908. Available from the Internet Archive here. I particularly liked the images of courtyards….beautiful outdoor spaces.

Moore, Frederic. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. London: L. Reeve & Co. 1890. Three volumes from the Internet Archive: one, two, three.  The author was very active in India as well. I’ve looked at all the volumes for Ceylon and have started the ones for India. I wonder how many of the species still exist?

Brown, Leanne. Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day. New York. 2014. Available from the author’s website. You’ll get hungry just looking at recipes in this book!  I got caught on the first one (tomato scrambled eggs)…made it for lunch before I finished the rest of the book!

Enjoy some wonderful images (and some good food ideas)!

3 Free eBooks - July 2014

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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.