Reproduction of the original: Strange Survivals by S. Baring-Gould
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Excerpt from Chapter 1: When the writer was a parson in Yorkshire, he had in his parish a blacksmith blessed, or afflicted-which shall we say?-with seven daughters and not a son.
Foundation Sacrifices: Strange Survivals Found in Buildings
Many of these short stories were collected together and republished as anthologies, such as his Book of Ghosts (1904), Dartmoor Idyllys (1896), and In a Quiet Village (1900).
Strange Companion: A Story of Survival
An illustrated introduction to sharks that lived during the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance ...