On an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost contiguous stretch of unspoiled public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada. For their trail horses, they adopted wild mustangs from the US Bureau of Land Management that were perfectly adapted to the rocky terrain and harsh conditions of desert and mountain travel. A meticulously planned but sometimes unpredictable route brought them face to face wit...
iPhone Photography for Everybody (iPhone Photography for Everybody)
by Gary Wagner
100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished landscapes in less-visited parts of the country. A celebration of Japanese landscape design, this book features gardens from Kyoto and Tokyo, as well as from the sub-arctic island of Hokkaido and the semi-tropical islands of Okinawa. Author Stephen Mansfield travelled the length and breadth of Japan on a quest to identify the most impressive gardens...
The City in a Garden (Center Books on Chicago and Environs)
by Julia S. Bachrach
"The City in a Garden" is a compelling look at Chicago's remarkable and long-overlooked park system. Through unprecedented access to a cache of historical plans, photographs, and drawings, Julia S. Bachrach documents the city's 175-year commitment to its public parks and explains how luminaries such as architect Daniel H. Burnham, landscape architect and conservationist Jens Jensen, and social reformer Jane Addams shaped and influenced the city's green spaces. This revised edition of "The City i...
The 22 gardens selected for Secret Gardens of East Anglia celebrate the culture, beauty and diversity of the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex, and all deserve to be better known. The big skies and the extraordinary light of East Anglia make it unlike anywhere else in Britain, and offer the most amazing natural conditions in which to create gardens. Introduced by eminent East Anglian plantswoman Beth Chatto, the gardens appearing on these pages are brought to life by the...
In the ninth addition to his bestselling “Fifty Places” series, author Chris Santella is back at it again, this time exploring the world on bikes with Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die. Biking has grown increasingly popular in recent years, as both a leisure and extreme exercise activity and Chris cover trips for cyclists of every level. Fifty Places to Bike covers environments as varied as the Dalmatian Coast in Croatia, the Tour de Tuli through Botswana, and the urban jungle of New York City...
Exotic Bougainvillea 24 Digitized Photography Prints in a Book Book 1
by Grace Divine
Shows Japan's best known gardens in a variety of styles.
Lucky Looks
by Jordi Bernado, Rafael Doctor Roncero, and Friederike Nymphius
Whether we are travellers, trekkers and mountaineers or just dreamers, many of us long to make our own journeys to faraway places. Now, through Colin Monteath's superb photographs and spirited, thought-provoking text, we can be transported to the great mountain ranges of the world, to landscapes rich in culture and natural beauty. The book offers a rich variety from accounts of Polar traverses in South Georgia and Greenland to trans-alpine treks in Nepal and Bhutan. It includes an account of the...
Prayer is often perceived as a difficult, "place-less" exercise in which we close our eyes and seek God beyond our everyday experience in an invisible, ethereal realm. It does not have to be this way, however. Prayer can have its own sense of place - landscapes which we can inhabit and explore, and meet God as tangibly as we might meet a fellow traveller. In this beautifully illustrated book, Margaret Silf explores nine landscapes of prayer, both classic and modern: the garden, the mountain, the...
From the author of Photographer's Paradise, which won the 2014 Lucie award for Publisher of the Year for Glitterati Incorporated. Internationally-renowned photojournalist's intimate look at the city he loves most, through decades of social, political, and physical change. Presentation is arranged to highlight cultural elements, rather than the typical decade-by-decade reportage of comparable books. New York City Up and Down is an elegant, incisive, and unexpected review of forty years of explora...
Best-Kept Secrets of Berlin (Best Kept Secrets)
by Dr Christopher McNab
The capital of Germany is a vibrant, culturally rich destination. With a turbulent, divided history, Berlin has re-invented itself to become an eclectic mix of world-class museums and art galleries, hidden green spaces, heady nightlife, iconic landmarks and quirky neighbourhoods. Whether you need some inspiration for a forthcoming trip to Berlin, or are a dedicated armchair traveller, you will find this fabulous new book is packed with the sights and stories of this most diverse of destinations.
Friendship Botanic Gardens
by Barbara Stodola and Friendship Botanic Gardens