Books by Evelyn Wood

Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This book is about frogs, and their toad cousins, and their fascinating amphibian lives. Frogs live all over the world, even managing to withstand freezing their own bodies. Cold-blooded, but astonishingly similar to animals biologically, they perhaps offer a glimpse of a common ancestor.From an egg protected and nourished by frogspawn through its development first as the vegetarian fish like tadpole to becoming the carnivorous frog “A frog's life” is a journey of discovery into the lives and habits of one of nature's most treasured and diverse creatures. Worshiped as a goddess by the Egyptians and for many cultures a symbol of good luck, but for others, a tasty treat.A staple of French cuisine, an invaluable aid to scientists, biologists, Amazonian hunters and an early warning system of ecological problems. A frog’s life explores the contribution of these amphibians with Evelyn Wood’s usual mix of fact and fun, anatomical diagrams, cartoons a quiz and colouring pages.  

A valuable teaching aid, The magical world of Butterflies, explores the natural history of Butterflies from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis to its emergence as the beautiful winged miracle that has even ventured into space. The dangers they face are explained along with the surprising help some get. New ideas, words and natural processes are explained with full colour illustrations. It introduces children to the use of Latin in entomology demonstrating the value not just of Latin but also of being able to understand others with similar interests.  They learn why today’s scientists thank Carl von Linné for a great idea. Parents find it’s layout and fun style will satisfy curiosity and engage their children in a process that’s truly magical. Rounding it off for the children is a quiz, hints on explorer kit, pages to colour a note page.  There’s also a great story about a greedy spider and the clever butterfly that does not want to be his supper.TooWoo makes learning easy and fun, the Illustrations combined with fact, activity and story telling are a novel way to introduce nature study. A list of more advanced books and reference web sites complete the book.

The busy world of bees is a great teaching aid and fun too. It explores the natural history of bees from egg through larvae and cocoon.The special tasks that queens, drones and workers have are explored in detail. Including the life stages of workers, which sees them develop from cleaner, to robber. New ideas, words and natural processes are explained with full colour illustrations.The use of, and value, of Latin in nature study is demonstrated with a simple example. In addition to honeybees their relatives the bumblebee are described. This section highlights some little known facts about these docile furry insects.Adults find the series layout and fun style satisfies children's curiosity and opens a new way of learning. Rounding it off for the children are a quiz, hints on explorer kit, pages to colour a note page and a waggle dance game. TooWoo makes learning easy and fun. The Illustrations combined with fact activity and storytelling are a novel way to introduce nature study. A list of more advanced books and reference web sites is included.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.