Richard Platt
1) Pirate
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Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the dangerous and adventurous life of piracy, privateering, and buccaneering. Superb, full-color photographs of weapons, ships, flags, maps, and treasure offer a unique and revealing view of pirate life on the high seas from the Viking raiders to the buccaneers of the Spanish Main.
6) Castle
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Working from plans of an actual 14th century European castle, Stephen Biesty has sliced the building into various cross-sections, each one teeming with life and detail.
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Featuring a preface by C. S. Lewis biographer and editor Walter Hooper, Richard Pratt's As One Devil to Another takes up where the legendary Narnia author's Screwtape Letters left off. In this gripping work, senior devil Slashreap corresponds with his protégé Scardagger. As Satan's underlings exchange dark musings, light is shed on human failings, the nature of evil, and God's divine intent.
9) Man-of-war
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Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting.
10) Disaster!
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Documents some of the most devastating events in world history, including natural disasters, accidents, and plagues.