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He has additionally written widely on subjects as broad as alabaster, the collection of frankincense, the stories of M.R. James and the history of umbrellas. Mackintosh-Smith presented a major BBC documentary series Travels with a Tangerine (2007), [4] recounting his experiences tracing Ibn Battutah's fourteenth-century travels in the present day.
Umbrella is a short story where a little girl is the principal character. Her name is Momo, which means "peach" in Japanese, and she was born in New York. [2]Momo carries the blue umbrella and wears the rubber boots that she was given on her third birthday.
Lilian Moore (pen name, Sara Asheron; March 17, 1909–July 20, 2004), was a writer of children's books, teacher and poet. She founded and edited for Scholastic's Arrow Book Club, a low-cost mail-order paperback service for children. She also helped found the Council on Interracial Books for Children.
Jonas Hanway FRSA (12 August 1712 – 5 September 1786), was a British philanthropist, polemicist, merchant and traveller. [1] He was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking.
Parts of an umbrella [2]. The word parasol is a combination of the Latin parare, and sol, meaning 'sun'. [3] Parapluie (French) similarly consists of para combined with pluie, which means 'rain' (which in turn derives from pluvia, the Latin word for rain); the usage of this word was prevalent in the nineteenth century.
Book History is the official publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. It was established in 1998 and is published annually by the Johns Hopkins University Press .
The advertisements showed expensive umbrellas with special features. [13] These included "Name-On", which stitched the owners name and address prominently on the inside of the fabric. According to Beehler, the name is not visible from the outside, "but as soon as the umbrella is raised, it is right there to identify the umbrella and nudge the ...
Book sales club, a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books Text publication society, also known as a book club, a subscription-based learned society dedicated to the publication and sale of scholarly editions of texts; Book club may also refer to: Book Club, a 2018 American comedy film; Book Club: The Next Chapter, the 2023 sequel