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The landscapes of Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan are filled with holy places. Some are of natural origin - summits, rivers and lakes, caves, or forest sanctuaries. Others are consecrated by religious practice - shrines, temples, monasteries, or burial grounds. The holy sites of the Himalaya unite faith and geography to produce some of the most sublime places on Earth. In Land of Pure Vision, David Zurick draws from his thirty-five years of experience as a geographer, photographer, and explorer of the...

Until recent catastrophic events, little attention was paid to the landscape and ecology of the American Gulf Coast, a hauntingly beautiful landscape undergoing rapid change due to human and natural forces. Acclaimed photographer Richard Sexton's evocative black-and-white images capture this often-overlooked terrain, throwing into haunting relief the marshes, forests, and bayous from New Orleans to Florida. Sexton focuses on the intersection between human culture and natural phenomena, creating...

The Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the border of Mexico, west across the Trans-Pecos, and up through Northern New Mexico into Colorado. Photographer Jerod Foster and poet John Poch praise and wonder along these varied waterways and across the landscapes they host. The result is communion—a synergy of imagery in story and story in imagery, finding unexpected form, depths, and meaning much as...

New Zealand is both one of the most unique and most pristine landscapes on Earth. Its otherworldly qualities have made it the location for many films in recent years, most notably perhaps, The Lord of the Rings. In this collection, photographer Warren Jacobs captures the breathtaking scenery and coastlines, as well as fascinating views of New Zealand's major cities. The impressive scale of many parts of New Zealand, allied with the vivid colors (snow-capped mountains, sparkling blue waters and v...

Bristol has been a major city in England since the Middle Ages. Its position on the confluence of the Rivers Avon and Frome, near the coast on the west of the country, allowed it to capitalise on trade with the American colonies and in the eighteenth century the city grew rich on the slave trade. The city was further transformed in the 19th century by Brunel's Great Western Railway, his pioneering ocean-going steamships and Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon Gorge. The wealth of the tobacco...

Until the end of the First World War, urban growth in Johannesburg proceeded unevenly and haphazardly, but under the impact of a wave of militant struggles by black workers and in the context of the devastating impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the state became determined to better manage the movement of Africans into the urban areas and to place them in properly controlled locations. The promulgation of the Native (Urban) Areas Act of 1923 was intended to meet these objectives. The Act was...

From 1964 onward much of the ancient land of Nubia sank forever in the waters of Lake Nasser, behind the new Aswan High Dam. Margo Veillon had been fascinated by the vibrancy, color, and movement of the life of ordinary people in Nubia since the 1930s. In the company of friends and fellow artists she made numerous extended visits to capture in her artwork a lifestyle that has now vanished. This book is a record of her journeys. Presenting the Nile as this beautiful land's thoroughfare, her drawi...

Did you know that there are more than 60 active volcanoes in Europe today? Or that the longest-existing lava lake is in Ethiopia? Or that Mount Stromboli off the coast of Italy has been in almost continuous eruption for the past 2000 years? Illustrated with 200 spectacular photographs, Volcano is a fascinating visual journey around the globe, selecting the most striking live and extinct volcanoes from Alaska to Antarctica, from Tanzania to Tasmania, from Kamchatka in Russia's far east to Indones...