homes and haunts

A little girl visits the home and garden of Claude Monet at Giverny, France, and learns about the artist's paintings and his life. The illustrations include photographs of the painter and his family as well as examples of his work.

Cynthia Huntington chronicles the experiences she had as she searched for the true meaning of "home" on the dunes of Cape Cod.

A personal record of Wright's domestic masterpiece, a home which becomes an integral part of its natural setting.

The author describes her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years before returning to Denmark in 1931 to write.

Presents more than thirty photos of Walden Pond and its adjoining woods, accompanied by quotations from Henry David Thoreau's "Walden.".

Presents the full text of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; selections from "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Cape Cod," and "The Maine Woods"; and five significant essays by Thoreau.

Homer Hickam chronicles the events that took place during his senior year in his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia.