The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary
This thick volume has over 1000 pages, each filled with very detailed drawings of objects, with what they are in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Why this is brilliant is the RANGE of information presented... it's frankly astounding.
Page 375: Cuts for Gemstones (schifformen für Edelsteine), including Stop, Rose, Table, Cabochon, Emerald, Brilliant Full, Eight, Scissors, Baguette, French, Oval, Navette, Pear, and Briolette cuts - all illustrated, all with 5 languages. and that's HALF the page.
How about pages 474-475: A detailed overview of how postal distribution works - from mailboxes to sorting facilities, to distribution centers, to postmen. Page 830 - an Olympic Swimming Pool, with lane ropes, false start rope, stroke-placing-turning judges, backstroke turn indicators?
Page 254: Wood flooring arrangements? Inlaid parquet, overlay, strip flooring with alternate joints, herringbone parquet, chantilly parquet....?
Page 101 - Insects: Flea, louse, mosquito, tsetse, termite, furiture beetle, ladybird, sexton, yellowjacket, hornet, horsefly, bumblebee, oriental cockroach, peppered moth, giant water bug with eggs, monarch buterfly, great green bush-cricket, cicada... Followed on 103 with a tarantula and a diagram of the internal organs of a spider?
Every page is an adventure. I LOVE THIS BOOK. Get it.
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