September 19

September 19 is a date of crowns exchanged, cities surrounded, secrets uncovered, and worlds both ancient and digital brought unexpectedly into view. This edition of Echoes travels from Nerva’s rise in imperial Rome and the medieval battlefield at Poitiers to New Zealand’s landmark victory for women voters, Witold Pilecki’s astonishing mission inside Auschwitz, Luna 16’s robotic harvest from the Moon, the discovery of Ötzi, and the humble punctuation marks that became the first documented emoticons. It also remembers Mexico’s devastating September earthquakes, celebrates the birth of artists from Arthur Rackham to Nile Rodgers, and explores the date’s Virgo symbolism, Tarot correspondences, feast days, harvest lore, and wonderfully modern pirate nonsense. Fifty true events become fifty historical coloring pages—because September 19 clearly had no intention of being an ordinary square on the calendar.

paperback, 8.5" x 11", 50 illustrations