Transfixed by the beauty of a passing flock of white swans, a Japanese painter finds that he cannot work until he sees them again.

The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1919, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling class

Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.