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A Chinese fisherman crossing the water with his boat
Pilgrimage to Emptiness in Tang Poetry
The wonderful Chinese Tang poems
Erotic fresco found in the ruins of Pompeii
From cover to cover
The Kavla book story
A story connected to espionage
The woman who loved a spy
A story that was censored and hidden from the Israeli public for years
Two girls and a boy, ready to have a good time
Kavla
More than just another sexy story
Lavi's father © Pierre Lavi a
My Father - The Last of The Noble Iranians Jews
A touching and true story of one family
Nichiren
Nichiren Buddhism
A way to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime
From the series Go Away Closer, 2007.
Interview with Dayanita Singh
The roots of the Museum structures
Picture of Book of Theriac conserved in Paris
Three states of the Moon
The major features of the frontispiece
Amazing statue of Buddha, founder of one of the most extended religions in the world
The Tao Te Ching
The legend of the origin
Iceland, land of vikings who is influenced for different religions
Kristnitakan
The Christianisation of Iceland's Vikings
The physician Galen.
The Theriac in the Latin West
The most famous preparation in the Western pharmacopoeia
Ingólfur Arnarson ( 849-910 ) was considered the first Nordic Norwegian settler in Iceland
How Iceland got its name
From Discovery to the first Settlement
Tattoos Hornets Fire
Tattoos Hornets Fire
A doorway to an intriguing and unexplored Sweden
Kids in Iceland
The peculiarities of Icelandic naming
The language as a basic element of the national identity
The book is a pioneer of the natural modern medicine
The medical value of the Book of Theriac
Nine scholars from Andromachus to Galen
Hyeronimus Bosch, Trittico delle Tentazioni di Sant'Antonio.
Razmus and Juniper
A story about two souls
It sounds strange that kids can be afraid of these sympathic men
The Thirteen Yule Lads of Iceland
Why Icelandic children used to be scared of the Yule Lads
The Great Tree of Milden Worf
The savage revenge
Marilyn. Everything was for the best in the best of all possible worlds
From Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe by Nick Yapp
“I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac”
The ball game, shown in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
"Introduction to the Middle Ages" by Umberto Eco
Barbarians, Christians and Muslims
A page of Kitâb al-Diryâq
The Paris Kitâb al-Diryâq
An Essay in Interpretation by Oleg Grabar
J. W. Waterhouse, “Circe invidiosa”, 1892, Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia.
The feminine approach to health
Goddess, pythia, sorceress and midwife, herbalist or healer. Alchemist or witch
One of a series of 20 photographs depicting the planting and manufacturing of indigo in India by French photographer Oscar Mallitte (c 1829-1905). Mallitte arrived in Calcutta in 1857 and later that year was part of Dr Mouat's official expedition to the Andaman Islands. He made an invaluable photographic record of the life and customs of the native islanders, a collection which sadly has since been lost. Mallitte taught photography at the School of Industrial Arts in Calcutta, and in 1859 he accompanied the Vice-Roy, Lord Canning, as photographer on a tour of the North-West provinces. A series of his views of indigo planting and manufacturing was sold at Sotheby?s in 1980. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
India. 150 years in photographs
“no more a united nation than the Equator”
Allegory upon the Tulip Mania by Jan Breughel the Younger
Tulipomania
An unbelievably fascinating account of the great tulip craze of the 17th century
Batman and Robin, 1966. Adam West Movie Poster
The Many Faces of The Batman By Will Brooker
The story behind the Hero of Gotham City
Golden mask of Agamemnon
Greece by Umberto Eco
An Introduction to Antiquity
The facsimile, Kitâb al-Diryâq
Kitâb al-Diryâq
A medieval Arab version of a millenary panacea
Swift created a fascinating tale
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels, although known as a classic children’s adventure book
The english author travelled between these two big cities
George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author
The famous irish novelist
Dracula: a travel novel?
Travel and geographical references in the most famous work of Bram Stoker
The american author travelled around his country in 1960
John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Portrait of the british novelist Charles Dickens
The Pictures from Italy of Charles Dickens
Italy’s most famous sights
The american writer Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) is American writer Herman Melville's first book
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