Discover the history of Bologna’s Archiginnasio Palace, former seat of the University, home to the famous Anatomical Theatre and thousands of heraldic...
A witty memoir of childhood in 1930s Corfu, where Gerald Durrell’s eccentric family meets nature’s chaos in a sun-drenched, hilarious Greek idyll.
The Long Way: a cult book on freedom, solitude and rebellion, written at sea by Bernard Moitessier — the sailor who abandoned...
Review of the book "Log from the sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck
Discover the Morgan Library in Manhattan, New York — a haven of rare books, art, and collecting, home to priceless incunabula, manuscripts...
The Grand Hall of the Austrian National Library: A Baroque Monument to the Book and to Knowledge
A review of Charles Darwin's book "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World"