Nature

Þaettir is a collection of short prose pieces by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, first published in 1977.

A man stands before a derelict house in a remote Icelandic valley, a presence that exists both in…

Fjallkirkjan is an early prose work by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, first published in 1924.

Smásögur is a collection of short stories by the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, first published in 1996, near…

Interpretation of the Figures is a work by Paracelsus, the Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of…

Physiography is an introductory work of physical science written by Thomas Henry Huxley, derived from a series of…

Natural History is a comprehensive, popular-science examination of human mating behavior, written by anthropologist Helen Fisher.

The book is a comprehensive practical manual of pharmaceutical and household formulas, compiled from the accumulated expertise of…

The Garden is a work of fiction presented as a deposition or confession, framed by a brief historical…

The book brings together his writings on the animals he encountered at and around his hospital at Lambaréné…

The book is structured as an encyclopedic dictionary with entries arranged in alphabetical order, covering subjects like geography,…

This text comprises the fourth section, titled 'Melancholia,' from Edmund Clarence Stedman's larger critical work, The Nature and…

The lecture addresses the legacy of Carl Linnaeus, the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist who established the modern system of…

Hammarskjöld writes that these pages were written during his walks through the Swedish landscape, across different seasons and…

The essay addresses why oak trees spring up when pine woods are cut down, and vice versa.