Pirates — Predators of the Seas
Angus Konstam with Roger Michael Kean
Pirates are back in fashion! Thanks to the antics of fictional Cpt. Jack Sparrow — 'the worst pirate' you've ever seen — swashbuckling fun on the high seas has enjoyed a huge leap in popularity. This lavishly illustrated volume provides fascinating insights into the exploits of the bloodthirsty sea dogs and highwaymen of the oceans.
Out: 2nd April, 2007
Ancient Cities Brought To Life
Jean-Claude Golvin
This unique book finally brings the extraordinary genius of Jean-Claude Golvin to the English-reading public for the first time. Golvin's mission is to breathe life into ancient sites through the liveliness of line and the evocative power of watercolour painting.
Out: 2nd April, 2007
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The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey
By Roger Kean | £16.99 | 192 pages, softback | ISBN: 9781902886060
The illustrator Oliver Frey became synonymous with the mayhem of action-packed computer games during the 1980s and early 1990s, during which time he produced literally hundreds of covers, posters, games inlays and incidental page art. This long overdue volume presents some of his best work from the period.
Castles and Fortifications From Around the World
By Christopher Gravett | £16.99 | 192 pages, hardback
ISBN: 9781902886084
The stuff of romance, castles have the power to fascinate the modern mind. This excellent book by an authority on his subject features 320 sites across the world and contains more than 440 colour photographs, reconstructions, maps and floor plans.
Forgotten Power — Byzantium — Bulwark of Christianity
By Roger Kean £16.99 | 192 pages, hardback | ISBN: 9781902886077
Covering the 1,123 years from the founding of Constantinople to the empire’s destruction by Ottoman Turks in 1453, this beautifully illustrated book brings into focus the splendour and tragedy, genius and folly, and the sheer drama of an epoch all too often ignored by historians.
Other editions: Greek (Savalas, ISBN: 9604237691)
The Complete Chronicle of the Emperors of Rome
By Roger Kean & Oliver Frey | £25.00 | 320 pages, hardback
ISBN: 9781902886053
A large and lavishly illustrated record of the political, social, military and economic strategies of the history’s most powerful an influential empire narrated through the lives of every single emperor, usurper and pretender from Augustus (27 BC) to Justinian I (d.AD 565).