Nicola Barber

Contains over sixty alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various facets of music, covering acoustics, ballet, chamber music, dance, guitar, jazz, opera, reggae, soloists, and other topics. Includes profiles of performers from each genre.

Discusses such ancient "lost" cities as Machu Picchu, Troy, Knossos, Great Zimbabwe, and Angkor, as well as more modern ghost towns.

Readers learn about the Mayflower and the pilgrims who sailed on her.

As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts -- a bond that gives great powers to all of them.

Four children have discovered that they have spirit animals, a rare bond between human and animal that has launched them on a quest to save their world. The team heads to the forests of Eura, where another Great Beast is hidden.