Gordon Cheers

James Gordon Cheers (born 1954) owned a wholesale

Gordon worked for Penguin Books and Random House and was the publishing director of children's and adult illustrated books, publishing Australia Through Time,^[4] Botanica,^[5] and many others. In August 1999, Gordon Cheers and Margaret Olds set up Global Book Publishing. Their first two titles, Anatomica^[6] and The Global Encyclopedia of Wine,^[7] appeared in 2000. Anatomica, with 912 pages, is likely the most comprehensive, illustrated body atlas since Gray's Anatomy.^{[citation needed]} Wine extensively covers the world’s wine regions. In 2003, Gordon published, amongst others, Flora (1584 pages), which covers 20,000 plants and includes 12,000 colour images. It is the largest illustrated single volume plant encyclopedia ever published.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, with Margaret Olds, he established Millennium House to publish illustrated non-fiction books for both the Australian and the international market. Their titles include Astronomica, Historica, Geologica, Natural Health, Earth Concise, Earth Blue and the