Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (Vintage Collectors Classics)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (Vintage Collectors Classics)New Hardback A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, the story of the inventor who unleashed a monster, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself in a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor

and his successors

but also zealous collectors seeking knowledge

master builders

the ways they find solace and understanding through nature

The iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat now

he sought places to which he could escape - but everywhere he discovered deep and troubling silences

and find even more exciting birds

Exploring Scotland’s Islands describes the main island groups in all their moods

the acute difficulties that arose

The rise of extremism

Lords of Crypto Crime is the gripping

to being the home of fungi that could allow trees to talk