Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions

North America Ancient Origins is a gorgeous Collector's Edition by James Ball. In this new history, Ball gathers together the ancient story of North American history. Records of the pre-Columbian era rely heavily on archaeological evidence, showing the migrations across the Bering Strait from Asia, over 30,000 years ago, when mammoth and then bison roamed freely across the continent. By...

Delightful and ingenious stories from throughout the continent of Africa. A Gorgeous Collector's Edition of folk and fairy tales from the continent of sub-Saharan Africa, with stories from regions now marked as modern nations such as Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda, who inherit the folk and mythic tales of ancient peoples. Here you'll find stories...

African Myths & Legends is a gorgeous collector's edition that celebrates the powerful tradition of storytelling from the continent of Africa. Despite the challenges of colonialism and slavery, these myths have endured, showcasing a rich diversity of cultures from Ethiopia to Tanzania, and from the Xhosa people to the Yoruba. This collection includes tales of the gods, creation stories, trickster...

Arabian Folk & Fairy Tales includes captivating stories such as 'The Merchant and the Genie', 'The Fisherman and the Genie', 'The Porter and the Three Ladies', and 'The Three Apples'. These folk and fairy tales of Western Asia originate from Arabic and Indian oral storytelling and the medieval literature of the Arab world. These stories have permeated everyday culture in...

A striking companion volume to the Myths and Legends title, exploring the ancient origins of Egyptian society and culture. This gorgeous Collector's Edition brings to life the culture of one of the great founding civilisations. As a companion volume to Egyptian Myths and Legends in the same series, Egyptian Ancient Origins illuminates the beginnings of human experience: the irrigation of...

A gorgeous Collector's Edition. Populated by gods, High Kings, wilful Queens, noble warriors, fairies, goblins, and wizards, the Celtic myths are unsurpassed in their variety and power. This new book is a dazzling collection of the most gripping Celtic tales, vividly retold, gathering together the legends and sagas of this ancient culture in a tribute to the heroism, romance, and...

Greek Ancient Origins is a striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life. This is a gorgeous Collector's Edition. The period of the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenean civilisation, from the 1700s BCE, through to the Greek Dark Ages and...

Indian Ancient Origins offers a beautiful edition with a new introduction to the history of the land and the people, highlighting the origins of myth and folklore. The story of Ancient India, a vast land that stretches from the Himalayas in the North to the oceans far south, can be traced back to the 8th millennium BCE. In the mid-3000s,...

Beautiful edition with a new introduction to the profound, joyful, and extensive mythology of India. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. India, one of the great, ancient civilisations spawned a fascinating canon of myths and legends. With multiple gods, and a riot of colour and character, this fantastic new book, Indian Myths & Legends, explores the themes and landscapes that created the tales....

This beautiful edition, a companion to Japanese Myths and Legends, explores the ancient origins of Japanese society and culture. It is a gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from the early Jomon period to the Edo period. Japan has gripped the imagination of readers with its spiritual and delicate myths, ghost stories, and folktales for many generations, but...

A beautiful companion volume to Norse Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Viking society and culture. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From the legends of Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya, and all the gods of Asgard come 'The Treasure of the Dwarf King', 'Ragnarok', and many other thrilling tales of the Vikings and their Norse gods fighting a constant battle with...

A beautiful edition with a new introduction to the origins of Thor and Loki, Odin and Freya, the gods and giants of the Vikings, highlighting the origins of modern fiction in myth and fable. This is a gorgeous Collector's Edition. From the legends of Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and all the gods of Asgard come 'The Treasure of the Dwarf...

The perfect introduction to the rich delights of Persian literature, bound in a seductive, collectable edition. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From such texts as the Shah Nameh (the Persian Book of Kings), Masnavi-e Ma'navi, the Anvar-i Suhayli fables, and works by the great poet Nizami, come ancient tales of a civilisation that once stretched across the known world. Find here the...

Roman Ancient Origins presents a beautiful edition with a new introduction to the people and leaders of perhaps humankind's most enduring civilisation. This book features the history behind the legends and the people behind the grand tales of Antiquity. This gorgeous Collector's Edition details the rise and fall of Ancient Rome, which began as a village of humble dwellings on...

The Polynesian triangle covers Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand and the many isles in between. The legends of the region are based on the creation of land, fish, sea, valleys, and the volcanic outcrops scattered across the long stretches of the Pacific. The beautiful myths of the ancient Polynesians are brought together in this new collection: from Hawaii, the Rainbow...

Beautiful edition taking the reader through the origins and history of African nations and peoples, highlighting the roots of modern fiction in history, myth and fable. Africa is a crucible of many civilisations, indeed of humanity. African peoples can be traced back 16,000 years or so to 5 ancestral civilisational groups based on their language families, such as the Nilo-Saharan...

Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales collects tales rooted in the lochs and highlands of the Scottish landscape. These folk and fairy tales are full of mischief and malevolence, with spirits and goblins, bogies, witches, kelpies, and mer-folk lurking in every corner of the land, behind every tree and craggy rock at midnight. In these pages, the Fairy queen, and the...

A beautiful edition taking the reader through the origins and history of the Chinese and Asian peoples, highlighting the roots of modern fiction in history, myth, and fable. The events of China's history and origins of its society are inextricably linked to its varied mythology and folklore, reflecting the warring dynasties and the vast landscapes of the country, where distant...

A gorgeous Collector's Edition. Exploring the ancient origins of Sumer, we find the beginnings of civilisation as we know it now, with language, cities, religious conviction, organised society, and a wealth of culture revealed in clay tablets collected in ancient libraries. Between the rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates rose a powerful force just before the Ancient Egyptians and...

With newly told tales and a new introduction, this is a delightful collection of legendary stories from the distant, ancient worlds of Sumer and Babylon. Tales from a crucible of civilisation—the pocket between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers where language, astronomy, religion, and mythology grew from some of the earliest cultures known to humankind. Undiscovered until 200 years ago,...

Beautiful edition with a new introduction to the epic journey of Odysseus on his journey home following the Trojan War. One of the great epics of Western literature, The Odyssey covers the events after the Trojan War as Odysseus travels home, encountering many strange monsters and creatures along the way. Featuring numerous figures of ancient Greek mythology, Homer's epic poem...

A key work of the Chinese Classics in an accessible and beautiful edition, an ideal companion to our titles on Chinese myths, legends, folk tales and ancient history. Also known as Yî Ching or The Book of Changes, I Ching is an ancient Chinese text of vast historical and cultural influence. Spanning the fields of divination, cosmology, morality, and philosophy,...

A powerful new addition to the Collector's Edition series, introducing The Art of War, an ancient and world-renowned Chinese military strategy classic. The Art of War has been a source of great strategical inspiration throughout the ages. Focusing on military strategy, psychology, and tactics, each section concentrates on a different facet of warfare and draws out important themes such as...

Celebrate the chill of classic Irish ghost tales in this beautiful Collector's Edition, drawing threads from folklore, legend and ancient origins. Ghosts and spirits abound in this glorious gift edition of Irish tales, building on the history, mythology and the folklore of the Emerald Isle. Stories include The Child That Went with the Fairies, The Canterville Ghost, The Last of...

Alongside Beowulf and Gawain and the Green Knight, this masterpiece of epic literature provides a rare insight into the wars of empire and civilisation in the post-Romanic Era of Europe. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Readers of Beowulf and Gawain and the Green Knight will find much to enjoy in The Song of Roland, among the finest and oldest works of French...

A stunning addition to the Collector's Editions, introducing a delightful selection of enchanting tales from Ancient, Celtic Wales. Welsh Folk & Fairy Tales is a gorgeous Collector's Edition of Welsh folk and fairy tales, including lesser-known local legends as well as popular tales from different regions. This new collection is created for the modern reader. Wales is rich in lore...

A delightful collection of stories of everyday folk, from a country that now brings K-Pop culture into the eyes and ears of the world. Organized into four sections – Love, Marriage & Family, Powerful Spirits & Mystical Realms, The Magical & the Supernatural, Tales of Animals & Mythical Creatures – this delightful collection gathers together the misadventures of the poor...

A stunning addition to the Collector's Editions, taking the reader through the reign and life of the legendary Cleopatra. Now part of a gorgeous hardback collectable series introducing the heroes, leaders, cultures, myths and philosophies of the world, this book sheds light on one of the most renowned pharaohs of Egypt. Cleopatra had the rare distinction of connecting three great...

A stunning addition to the Collector's Editions, introducing the epic story of Julius Caesar. This epic tale, now part of a gorgeous hardback collectable series, introduces the heroes, leaders, cultures, myths, and philosophies of the world. Born in 100 BCE, Caesar eventually became one of the most influential leaders in history. After a bloody civil war, where famously he crossed...