Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton; Angus Gowland (Editor)

A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens an...

Himalaya: A Human History

Ed Douglas

The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains'A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history' Financial Times This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among ...