John Kershaw: 7 books

White Rose of Yorkshire

My interest in silk dates from 1990. Since then I have bred my own silkworms and found something of interest about silk in all five continents. It all began 400 million years ago when ancestors of spiders crawled out of the sea onto dry land and used silk to prevent their eggs from drying out and...

A missive from the darkness The mist hung low over the Snake River. As I looked around I saw hieroglyphics, carved in stone by the ancient ones. The spirits of the lowland natives swirled around me. How could I read from those rocks when even the great Chief Joseph couldn't explain those hieroglyphics?

THE FARM AT NOVESTROKA is a story of two Ukrainian women and their struggle to survive during war and its aftermath. Irena Martsenyuk is a collective-farm woman whose peaceful life is shattered when German invaders sweep through the Ukraine. Her son is killed in battle, and her husband is ordered...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well...

Forest mensuration – the science of measurement applied to forest vegetation and forest products – holds value for basic ecology as well as sustainable forest management. As demands on the world’s forests have grown, scientists and professionals are increasingly called on to quantify forest...

Forest Growth and Yield Modeling synthesizes current scientific literature and provides insights in how models are constructed. Giving suggestions for future developments, and outlining keys for successful implementation of models the book provides a thorough and up-to-date, single source reference...