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Discover the Living Foundations of European Culture Through Family, Tradition, and Visual History. Families of Europa: A Visual Journey Through the Traditional Cultures of Old Europe by bestselling author-artist and award-winning historian Lochlainn Seabrook, is a richly illustrated exploration of Europe's foundational ethnic families as they existed before the full impact of modern industrial, political, and ideological transformation. Drawing upon anthropology, ethnography, historical records, material culture, and regional scholarship, this specialized ethnographic encyclopedia presents fifty representative European families rooted in specific landscapes, lifeways, and inherited traditions. Each family is selected for cultural continuity and historical significance rather than modern visibility, and is examined within its authentic historical context with clarity, balance, and respect. Blending original visual art with carefully structured profiles, the book includes: - Fifty indigenous traditional European families representing the continent's deep ethnic diversity and shared human heritage. - Clear identification of regional origins, historical periods, cultural characteristics, traditional lifeways, and related features. - Consistent, reader-friendly profiles designed for comparison, reference, and long-term use. - Original illustrations depicting historically accurate 19th-Century attire, material culture, and regional identity. - Focused discussion of family structure, tradition, and the transmission of language, belief, and custom across generations. - A non-ideological, non-political approach emphasizing scholarship, continuity, and cultural integrity. - An elegant image-rich format suitable for historians, educators, genealogists, libraries, collectors, and gift-giving. Rather than viewing Europe through modern abstractions or institutions, Families of Europa restores the family as the primary vessel of cultural memory and transmission-where identity, tradition, and belonging were preserved long before the modern age. Both informative and visually immersive, this volume, with its emphasis on the preservation of Western culture, serves as a compact reference and a lasting pictorial record of Europe's traditional cultures. Designed for repeated consultation and long-term relevance, it reflects Sea Raven Press' commitment to historical rigor, visual excellence, and cultural value. Available in paperback and hardcover. (All text copyright (c) Sea Raven Press.)

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PUBLISHER'S REVIEW ""Historian-artist Lochlainn Seabrook brings clarity, balance, and visual elegance to the study of Europe's enduring family traditions. Families of Europa is a thoughtfully constructed volume-combining cultural insight with careful scholarship-to create a compelling portrait of heritage, continuity, and shared human experience. It stands as both an engaging introduction and a meaningful reference for readers who value depth, accuracy, art, and refined presentation."" - SEA RAVEN PRESS

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American polymath, bestselling author, award-winning historian, and acclaimed artist and filmmaker Lochlainn Seabrook, whose literary works range from astronomy to zoology, is the leading popularizer of authentic Civil War history and one of the most prolific, respected, and important scholars and nature-writers in the world today. A descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William Giles Harding, he is known by literary critics as the ""new Shelby Foote"" and the ""American Robert Graves,"" and by his fans as the ""Voice of the Traditional South."" The longstanding SCV member is a Kentucky Colonel, a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, and currently the multi-genre author and editor of over 110 educationally enlightening books for all ages. Described by his readers as ""game changers"" and ""life-altering,"" his voluminous writings have introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out of our mainstream books. A 7th generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Col. Seabrook is a lifelong writer with a 50-year background in American and Southern history, and is the author of the international blockbuster ""Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!"" For more information or to purchase Colonel Seabrook's books, visit our Webstore: www.SeaRavenPress.com

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