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Goethe's Theory of Colours
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Lock Eastlake
Paperback (Echo Library, Feb. 15, 2016)First published in 1810 in the original German as Zur Farbenlehre, this work outlines Goethe's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived. It contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction and chromatic aberration. This English translation with additional notes by the artist Charles Lock Eastlake, published in 1840, was highly praised by Schopenhauer who claimed it was "understood more easily than the original".
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The Way of an Indian
Frederic Remington
Paperback (Echo Library, Jan. 27, 2010)American Frederic Remington wrote and illustrated this book. He was a tremendously successful illustrator who specialised in the so-called 'Wild West' of America.
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Beric the Briton
G. A. Henty
Paperback (Echo Library, Aug. 31, 2006)A story of the Roman Invasion
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The Wouldbegoods
E. Nesbit
Paperback (Echo Library, Nov. 1, 2006)This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Paperback (Echo Library, Sept. 27, 2006)"Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative." -- "The Wall Street Journal." Told with vivid gusto by a young, fiercely determined widow, this towering classic of American frontier life paints a candid portrait of her work, travels, neighbors, and harsh existence on a Wyoming ranch in the early 1900s. Includes 6 original illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.
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Warriors of Old Japan and Other Stories
Yei Theodora Ozaki, Shusui Okakura
Paperback (Echo Library, March 20, 2013)By the author of "The Japanese Fairy Book". First published in 1909.
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A Texas Ranger
William MacLeod Raine
Paperback (Echo Library, March 1, 2007)Within the memory of those of us still on the sunny side of forty the more remote West has passed from rollicking boyhood to its responsible majority.
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Bucholz and the Detectives
Allan Pinkerton
Paperback (Echo Library, July 21, 2008)None
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The Land Of Little Rain
Mary Hunter Austin
Paperback (Echo Library, Aug. 21, 2006)An account of life and geography in the desert areas that lie 'between the high Sierras south from Yosemite'
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The Pool in the Desert
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Paperback (Echo Library, Jan. 28, 2008)None
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
Walter Horatio Pater
Paperback (Echo Library, July 17, 2006)None
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Wild Sports in the Far West
Frederick Gerstaecker, Harrison Weir
Paperback (Echo Library, June 27, 2016)In 1837, aged 20, the author left his native Germany to travel extensively throughout the United States, supporting himself with whatever work came to hand. He sent home regulatr accounts of his adventures and experiences and this English translation of the revised version of his travel diaries was published in 1859.