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The Rhine | |||
| Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe | Travel & Places | |||
| Roland Recht | ||||
| Thames & Hudson 2001 380 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 050051058X 336x245mm | ||||
| Published Price £48.00 | Our Price £19.99 | |||
| From the Swiss Alps to its delta in the North Sea, the Rhine is Europe's most important river - historically, culturally and artistically. Presenting an overview of the river as a geographical and historical continuum, this book begins with an outline cultural history of the Rhine landscape before embarking on a superbly illustrated journey, visiting cities and their art and architecture, from the 8th century monastery at Disentis in Switzerland to Vermeer's View of Delft and that city's Gothic Nieuwe Kerk. | ||||
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Palaces of Naples | |||
| Travel & Places | ||||
| Donatella Mazzoleni; Mark E Smith; Ugo Carughi | ||||
| Rizzoli 1999 324 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0847822168 328x274mm | ||||
| Published Price £63.90 | Our Price £19.99 | |||
| From the Palazzo Penne, built in 1409, to the 16th century Palazzo Corigliano with its opulent duke's study, to the eclectic Castello Aselmeyer begun in 1899, Naples is home to a stunning array of grand residences. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by Mark E Smith, this volume introduces 30 such buildings, telling the stories of their owners, occupants and architects, and examining some of the outstanding works of art - such as the Veiled Christ in the Sansevero Chapel and the ceiling frescoes of the Reggia Portici - which they contain. | ||||
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Kalahari | |||
| Wild Africa | Travel & Places | |||
| Lorenz A Fischer; Judith Burri | ||||
| Bucher 2007 191 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 3765815934 316x295mm | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Our Price £16.99 | |||
| Dominated by vast salt and sand plains and inhospitable to all but the hardiest stock of buffalo, elephants, rhinos, lions and leopards, the Kalahari is Africa at its most spectacular. This compilation of Fischer's stunning wildlife photography, with text by Judith Burri, introduces the various habitats of the region - the savannas, saltpans and rivers and the Okavango Delta, the sprawling oasis of canals, swamps and lagoons at the centre of the Kalahari. | ||||
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Worth the Detour | |||
| A History of the Guidebook | Travel & Places | |||
| Nicholas T Parsons | ||||
| Sutton 2007 378 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750943939 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| From Pausanias' guide to the glories of ancient Greece to handbooks for medieval pilgrims, from the 19th century golden age of Murray and Baedeker to the development of mass tourism in the 20th, travellers have relied on guidebooks for information. This erudite and entertaining history examines the pleasures and pitfalls of the genre through the ages, and asks searching questions about whether it helps the traveller to understand what is before them, or imposes a veil of preconceptions. | ||||
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