Countries of the World
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This introduction to Israel presents the young nation s complex history, unique cultures, and stirring landscape. Photographs convey the incongruous juxtapositions that exist throughout Israel: the ancient city of Hebron and the modern skyline of Tel Aviv, the mosques and the Wailing Wall, and many others."
Travel to Spain, and discover its unique contrasts of heritage and history, culture and architecture, land and sea. The glorious towns and cities where Europe meets Moorish, ancient meets modern. This full colour book is a record of a cultural tour of Spain, witnessing the traditional sports and customs, the street carnivals and dancing, the people at work and at play. It is also a geographical record of Spain's imposing landscape: the mountains, coastlines and islands. * The legacy of history * The passionate people * Land of contrasts * * The Countries of the World series brings together top travel writing and beautiful photographs from the four corners of the Earth. Each volume is a snapshot of the country, its landscape, its culture, its people, its architecture and heritage: a wide angle view from a window on ancient customs and modern street life, the unexpected weave of landscape and legends.
Beautiful, elegant Italy is the land of design and fashion, a very special tourist destination, emulating the Grand Tour of the 19th century. The spectacular ruins of Roman and Greek civilisation, the sumptuous artistic splendours of the renaissance palaces and baroque churches, the impressive mountain scenery of the Alps, the reflections on the Mediterranean beaches, are all to be enjoyed. Italy is a mixture of modern cities and stunning rural landscapes, avant-garde technology and rich, genuine folklore, the heir to traditions handed down through centuries of culture.
Iceland is an extraordinary land, a geological freak that brooks no comparison. It is a universe of immeasurable sights in which myth and history merge with volcanoes and glaciers, waterfalls and geysers, endless tundra and plunging cliff faces. It is an island that has been moulded into the most extraordinary forms by a nature in ceaseless struggle between creation and destruction, between extremes of primordial violence and calm reassurance.This welcome addition to "White Star Countries of the World" series transports readers to realms we could never experience without the benefit of these superb photographs. These shots depict the splendours of the country: the contrasting landscapes cast up an extraordinary range of colours and shades; the horizons stretch to infinity, the glaziers are immense, and the waterfalls so powerful they make the ground tremble.The geothermal phenomena that abound here send up a constant bubbling of multicoloured mud and the intermittent rumble of dense blasts of energy. The towering coasts are stacks of basalt teeming with millions of seabirds; the internal high plains form an endless, silent desert, disturbed only by the howling of the wind.
Countless fjords, geysers, glacial rivers, hot springs, and more - all of which comprise Iceland's singular landscape.
Countless fjords, geysers, glacial rivers, hot springs, and more - all of which comprise Iceland's singular landscape.