Description: This book takes a detailed look at the images and scripts of a Medieval narrative map, within the Voynich Manuscript, that describes a rescue mission in the year 1444, following a volcanic eruption on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. The nuns of Ischia Citadel sailed southward to the Aeolian Islands to feed and tend to the survivors of the disaster, before giving them safe passage to the sanctuary of their home. The book provides word-for-word translations of all scripts written on the map, including the date. It also explains the writing system, along with a complete lexicon of the words, which are still to be found in various Romance languages, and in Latin and in Greek.
Garden Wildlife is a book that looks at the habitats in our gardens from the point of view of wild animal and plants.If we understand our gardens in this way, then we can appreciate that different parts of our gardens essentially mimic wild habitats in microcosm. This means that we can provide places for wild animals and plants to flourish in our gardens, whether they happen to be in rural, suburban or urban settings.Above all, we need to get away from the current obsession with tidiness and sterility in our gardens, and allow odd corners to go wild, so that our native species can live alongside us in the modern world.Without wildlife to discover and observe in our gardens, our lives are impoverished, so we have a duty to ourselves and our children to invite nature back into our outside spaces.
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