New Zealand — 2016 — The 21st Century Matriarch

So many good books….so little time. Here are my picks from my September online reading.

Reeves, William Pember; Wright F. and W. (painters). New Zealand. London: A. and C. Black. 1908. Available from Internet Archive here. The illustrations are wonderful….a rendering of what the country was like before the first world war. The pictures of landscapes and natural areas encourage thinking about exploring there (hoping that those places still exist).

Johns, Thomas Rymer. Cassell’s Book of Birds. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. 1869. Available on Internet Archive here. This books includes illustrations of Birds of Paradise. We still see them as amazing birds with improbable feathers. Think what a sensation they must have been when this book was published in the mid-1800s.

Rackman, Bernard, Read, Herbert Edward; Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee; English Pottery – its development from early times to the end of the eighteenth century. London: Ernest Benn, Limited. 1924. Available on the Internet Archive here. Lots of good ideas for Zentangle patterns in this book! I am noticing that copyrights are expiring on books all the time and topics I have explored before on the Internet Archive have new books available. This was one example.