Arcadia Publishing, which focuses on publishing local and regional books in the United States, is dusting off old history for modern audiences with its new Marula imprint. Marula will reprint public domain titles of historical interest that might otherwise have fallen into obscurity. These paperback facsimiles will cover topics from colonial homemaking, Victorian-era cooking, firsthand accounts of the Civil War, early guides to American cities and travelogues on emerging railroad lines.
Richard Joseph, CEO and owner of Arcadia Publishing & the History Press, named the imprint after a tree in his native South Africa. "The tree is perennial, returning year after year to provide fruit for the animals and people of South Africa. Just as the Marula tree returns each spring, we want to honor these perennial American classics by making sure they aren't lost to history."
Marula launches today with a first run of titles including:
What We Cook on Cape Cod by the Village Improvement Society of Barnstable, Massachusetts (originally published in 1911)
Forty Years at El Paso: 1858-1898 by W.W. Mills (originally published in 1901)
Within Fort Sumter: A View of Major Anderson's Garrison Family for One Hundred and Ten Days by Miss A. Fletcher (originally published in 1861)
The Story of Minneapolis by E. Dudley Parsons, Instructor in English in the West High School (originally published in 1913)
Seattle and the Orient, edited and compiled by Alfred D. Brown (originally published in 1900)
A full list of current and upcoming titles is available here.