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Astounding aerial photographs revealing an immense and
unsuspected wealth of color hidden behind Ireland's green facade.
Yellow islands of gorse, the turquoise edges of the western coast,
the algae borders of the winter lakes varying in color from green
to orange, deserted islands overgrown with rust brown ferns and
deserts of black peat bogs.
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Whitesbog
(Hardcover)
Sarah E Augustine, Kiyomi E Locker, Dennis McDonald
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One hundred and fifty years ago travelling with a camera was both a
novelty and an enormous challenge. The intrepid photographers who
took their cameras to remote corners of the world brought back
images which amazed their peers. Photographer and historian John
Hannavy has recreated some of their epic journeys - travelling to
Scotland along the route followed by William Henry Fox Talbot in
1844; recreating Charles Kinnear and Thomas Melville Raven's 1857
journeys to France; exploring the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel
along the route Francis Frith followed between 1856 and 1859;
travelling through Russia and the Ukraine as Roger Fenton did in
1852 and 1855; across India from Calcutta to Simla following Samuel
Bourne's 1863 account of his travels; and exploring China and
Cyprus as John Thomson did between 1863 and 1878.This beautifully
illustrated book contrasts the Victorian world with our own, and
looks at how our view of the world has changed in the intevening
years. It chronicles the developments which have taken place in
travel, architecture, culture, and of course photography itself.
Midge Ure is one of the most successful musicians of his
generation, selling more than 20 million albums over the last five
decades. During the 1970s he played in various rock and pop bands
around Scotland before moving to London to join ex-Sex Pistol Glen
Matlock's Rich Kids, later playing guitar for Thin Lizzy, forming
Visage and joining Ultravox. In the 1980s he had phenomenal
worldwide success with Ultravox and as a solo artist. He also
co-wrote one of the best-selling singles of all time, Band Aid's
'Do They Know It's Christmas'. He co-founded the Band Aid charity
and is still involved with it today. This book is a stunning
collection of photographs taken by Midge on his travels between
1980 and 1985. Travelling with a Canon A-1 camera, he documented
his work in the recording studio, on tour with Ultravox, behind the
scenes whilst directing promotional videos (for Ultravox and other
artists such as Phil Lynott, Fun Boy Three, Bananarama) and
holidays in far-flung places and road trips. This is a fascinating
travelogue of a working musician. All photographs have been
carefully scanned and retouched from the original negative to show
the images in their glorious best, and every element of this book
has been produced to the highest specification. Midge is still
active today writing and recording music, touring around the world
as well as presenting TV and Radio programs.
"Swiss explorer and photographer Stefan Forster admits that he is
no stranger to dodging alligators and hiking for weeks in pursuit
of the perfect photo. And an impressive new photobook shows that
his efforts pay off handsomely." - Sarah Holt, Mail Online "This
tome is a potential classic in the making and a masterclass in how
straightforward landscape imagery should be done." - Amateur
Photographer "Stunning pictures...luminous images..." - Examiner
"Unbelievable...just amazing..." - WGN TV Chicago Captured in vivid
colour and magnificent quality, the unique moments that
photographer Stefan Forster discovers in out-of-the-way places in
nature take place on adventurous backcountry trips far from
civilisation, with Forster lugging up to 80 pounds in camera gear
and camping equipment. With enormous enthusiasm and prepared for
anything, he often hikes through remote areas for weeks at a time
on his search for the extraordinary. He has taken long solo kayak
expeditions along Greenland's west coast, hopped from island to
island in Micronesia, and slogged through the swamps of Louisiana
and Texas to find the area's most beautiful cypress trees, dodging
alligators all the while. The results are unique and fascinating
photos. This book presents this young photographer's most beautiful
experiences to date, including everything from rare rainstorms in
the world's driest desert and the Northern Lights shimmering
through icebergs to spectacular shots of the Rocky Mountains.
Forster was one of the first photographers to use state-of-the-art
quadcopter drones, giving his pictures fresh, new perspectives.
Stefan Forster published some of these aerial shots for the first
time in Above the World - Earth Through a Drone's Eye, released by
teNeues in September 2016. The following locations are included in
the book: Switzerland Iceland Greenland Antarctica Peninsula Utah
Colorado South Dakota Louisiana Washington Namibia Westcoast,
Scotland Uganda New Zealand Seychelles La Gomera Tasmania
Philippines Australia Indonesia Text in English, French and German.
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Indian Lake
(Paperback)
Cornelis Van Der Veen
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R561
R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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Even today Universities adhere to a time-honoured hierarchy of
professors, readers, lecturers, demonstrators, and technicians - a
structure first established in the European anatomical 'theatres'
of the 16th and 17th centuries. These were the players in the
theatre of anatomy, but inevitably it was the cadaver that took
centre stage. In Anatomy Lessons, Karen Ingham explores anatomy
theatres and dissecting rooms in Edinburgh, Dublin, London, and
Padua - and discovers spaces in which the notion of surface is
probed and dissected in the search to create structure and meaning
- to find what lies beneath. The body is a ghostly presence - yet
in the theatre of anatomy even the lifeless stage may be imbued
with a sense of drama.
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Plaquemine
(Hardcover)
Meghan C Sylvester, Burke Devillier
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R658
Discovery Miles 6 580
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