Places and peoples: general and pictorial works Books

Book SynopsisAnsel Adams' indelible images of America's most iconic natural feature, reissued with a new cover to celebrate Grand Canyon National Park's centennial year.

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Book Synopsis Explore the diverse cultural and historical legacy of the world's greatest writers, artists and composers on foot. This unique trans-continental culture trip around the world presents a series of inspiring walks, treks, and hikes that vary between easy one-hour strolls, half day trails, and multi-day expeditions for people who love a walking holiday and are looking for a more immersive experience. The book includes walks in easy to reach countryside areas, national parks, the wild, and the great cities of the world.  From an urban Street Art Walking Tour of East London to a traverse through the Georgian melting pot city of Tbilisi to a literary-themed Millennium Tour of Stieg Larsson’s Stockholm, Discover the World in 500 Walks with Writers, Artists & Musicians has all the inspiration and information you need to plan your next walking adventure.  Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction includes: How to use this book Walks are organized by continent: CH1 NORTH AMERICA CH2 SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA CH3 EUROPE & CAUCAUSAS CH4 AFRICA CH5 ASIA CH6 AUSTRALASIA EXAMPLE WALKS LITERARY • Wander with William Wordsworth around Glencoyne Bay, the Lake District • Christopher Marlowe’s idealised English countryside • Virginia Woolf’s London • The White cliffs of Dover that inspired Matthew Arnold’s great poem • Winnie the Pooh walks around Gill’s Lap • Explore the rolling Dorset hills with Thomas Hardy • Wittgenstein’s Cambridge • Explore the setting for Bram Stoker’s Dracula in Whitby • The Dylan Thomas Trail in Lampeter, Aberaeron, and New Quay, Wales • James Joyce’s Dublin • Robert Burns to Ian Rankin in Edinburgh • Paris by the Book: tour the haunts of writer’s including Earnest Hemingway and Ezra Pound • Stockholm’s Millennium Tour to celebrate Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo • Desolate Peak, Washington State’s inspiration for Jack Kerouac • Visit De Smet, South Dakota, to walk in the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder •A literary Tour of Portland Oregon, including Portland Arts and Lectures series • Discover the Fireside Poets of 19th Century Boston, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Stroll through Greenwich Village to discover the haunts of • Henry James and Edith Wharton • Follow Teju Cole around New York City • Re trace Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” • Follow in the footsteps of Mark Twain in Hartford, Connecticut • Explore Kansas City Public Library in Missouri • Visit Oak Park, Illinois, during the weekend of July 17th to join Earnest Hemingway’s 8K Running of the Bulls • Wander around Los Angeles after Jim Harrison • Pablo Neruda is the focus for a tour of Santiago, Chile • Explore Yukon Territory, Canada, and practice fire lighting, inspired by Jack London ART THEMES •Explore the street art in Wynwood, Miami (second saturdays) • Join the Mural Challenge, Lexington, Kentucky • Claude Monet’s Rouen, France • Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts (Winslow Homer, William Morris Hunt) • The Hudson River, Thomas Cole • Rhode Island with Martin Johnson Heade • Look Down Yosemite Valley with Albert Bierstadt • New Mexico through the eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe • Birdspotting with John James Audubon • Horatio McCulloch’s idealised Highlands, Scotland • Yorkshire with David Hockney • Yorkshire Sculpture Park • Recreate Richard Long’s A Line made By Walking in the Wiltshire countryside MUSICAL • Mendelssohn’s Scotland and Hebrides • The hills of the Italian Riviera, inspiration to Edward Elgar • Franz Liszt’s journey through Switzerland • Bryce Canyon, Utah, inspiration to Olivier Messiaen• The South Pole, inspiration to Vaughan Williams and Peter Maxwell Davies • Explore the Atlas Mountains, Algeria with Gustav Holst • Tosca’s Rome • Beethoven’s Vienna • Claudio Monteverdi in Venice • Ocmulgee River Heritage Trail, Macon, Georgia to commemorate Otis Redding • Visit the Joshua Tree, California, which inspired U2 • See who’s playing at Shrine of the Ages Auditorium Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona • Go to the unique Moab Music Festival in the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Utah • Recreate Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights in Wiltshire

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Book SynopsisA celebration of contemporary Brazilian culture from fashion to foodTrade Review"A sweeping, stylish volume of photos and essays... With the brilliant, confident display of Brazil's current creative endeavors."—New York Times

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Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed biographer of Atatürk, a portrait of the Turkish people and their vibrant society today make this the authoritative work on modern Turkey.Trade ReviewMango's book is a masterful overview of this period in Turkey's history * Sunday Times *To his credit, modern Turkey's great champion never acts as its apologist ... He is also impressively up to date ... authoritative and illuminating * Sunday Times *A swift, potted history of the Turkish political roller coaster. * Financial Times *Andrew Mango gives excellent descriptions of [Ankara and Istanbul] ... he sees Turkey as a success story ... he writes with elegance and conciseness ... The result, at last, is a book that people on their way to Turkey can pick up and read on the plane ... [Turkey's] recent past deserves a proper, sympathetic examination, and a proper, well-informed book to make this possible. It has, at least, got one. * Literary Review *Andrew Mango knows Turkey well. * The Spectator *Andrew Mango's portrait of contemporary Turkey is probably the most successful general introduction to the country for several decades. * The Tablet *He paints a broad and accessible picture, shrewdly gleaned from his insider-outsider dual perspective ... The Turks Today unfolds as a balanced, coherent primer for serious travellers with an itch to read the hidden lie of the land, and for inquisitive general readers. * Scotland on Sunday *

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Book SynopsisPhotos of all aspects of Falmouth life, from Dianne D'Cotta's popular Facebook posts

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Book SynopsisPerspectives on the history and heritage of this unique, Defence of the Realm maritime town

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Book SynopsisA collection of over 200 old photographs that offers a pictorial commentary on various aspects of the life and development of Southampton from Victorian times to the Second World War. It provides some highlights on everyday life and the social history of Southampton people, recalling past pleasures, events and occasions.

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Book SynopsisHave you ever wanted to soak in a bath of beer? What about climb a rainbow mountain? Can you imagine yourself discovering a garden oasis, or finding an underground city? For years, Buzzfeed''s popular travel vertical Bring Me! has supplied wanderers with the best and most reliable travel content. Now for the first time, BuzzFeed brings together all their tips, tricks, advice, and knowledge on hundreds of unlikely destinations and unique experiences in this officially licensed travel guide meets bucket list, where travelers are encouraged to seek out new adventures or simply daydream right from their couch. Get ready to see, taste, and explore hundreds of interesting places around the world, from weird museums and underwater adventures, to food festivals and extraordinary art. BuzzFeed''s Bring Me! offers thrill chasers the chance to see the world around them in exciting new ways.Featured adventures include:* Driving go-karts through the streets

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Book SynopsisExactly half a century old, this timeless illustrated classic artfully captures the Mad Men era of New York City for readers of all ages. The unique essence of New York City is poetically celebrated in Vladimir Fuka's brilliant, colorful illustrations and collages and Zdenek Mahler's playful accompanying narrative. The book takes readers on a charming journey of discovery through the magnificent metropolis's architectural landmarks, cultural hot spots, and neighborhoods, from uptown to downtown, from Wall Street to Coney Island, and the Guggenheim Museum to Yankee Stadium. Interesting historical fun facts about the city and its inhabitants are combined with descriptions of the reality of everyday New York. New York was created in 1964 and first printed in the former Czechoslovakia in 1968, but the entire print run was pulped by the secret police after Fuka escaped to the United States. The book was finally brought to life when Mahler's grandson discovered a surviving copTrade Review“New York: A Mod Portrait is more than a picture book—its is one of the most imaginative and beautiful travel guides ever written, and a charming companion for anyone journeying to the Big Apple. While the illustrations and punchy graphics may serve as a time capsule taking us back to midcentury NYC, certain elements have been updated to keep the book relevant—the book now lists the Freedom Tower…New York A Mod Portrait may be a very playful portrayal of the city, but the real achievement is how the book really touches the heart and soul of the city…this book will ignite the same exhilaration and enchantment felt upon arriving here for the very first time.” -ArtDaily"In 1964, Vladimír Fuka captured the brilliance of New York in a book of drawings. All of the copies were thought to be destroyed—until now!" -Town & Country"In 1968, an innocent guidebook fell victim to the Cold War. Its whimsical drawings and poetic lines devoted to New York City were destroyed by the Czechoslovakian secret police—all but one copy, that is. Nearly fifty years later, the grandson of its author found the original manuscript buried in an old wardrobe, and this week, it entered American circulation for the first time ever. What Mahler and his friend, an artist named Vladímir Fuka, had drafted some 44 years ago was a whimsical, poetic guide to NYC called, New York: A Mod Portrait of the City." ~Daily Beast"The Prague Spring of 1968 left a curious legacy. New York: A Mod Portrait of the City was a book published in Czechoslovakia in that year and it is the most adorable book about NYC you've never seen... Happy ending: next week, it's back in print, slightly updated." -Manhattan Users Guide"And so a pretty, 1960s era guidebook to New York is now the perfect coffee table book." -Gothamist"Mahler and Fuka's books are particularly well-suited to travel types as they liked to illustrate the buildings, parks, public institutions, and people of world cities. New York: A Mod Portrait of the City is a "found" work." -About.com

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Book SynopsisAcclaimed photographer Richard Berenholtz's brilliant portfolio of New York City skyline photographs.For thirty-five years, best-selling photographer Richard Berenholtz has captured the iconic skylines of New York and all of its buildings and bridges. Skylines of New York wonderfully showcases the city that never sleeps in grand style with this collection of 75 breathtaking skyline images.From the tip of Lower Manhattan, Battery Park, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park and the Hudson River--and dozens of locations in between--every well-known NYC site is featured here. To really bring the Big Apple home, some of the city's most memorable skyline panoramas are featured on gatefold pages that open to two-and-a-half feet wide. Designed in a handsome yet affordable package, Skylines of New York is the perfect gift for all who love New York.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The photos used in this book would easily have taken years to accumulate over the seasons, festivals, and events. This book has been a labour of love for a city where Ben's heart surely lies…Including photographs of both traditional elegance to modern high-tech and the everyday mundane, you'll see Tokyo as it really is: a land of contradictions that meld together into a city of beauty and wonder…Whether you love gorgeous photos of Japanese culture, love being an armchair traveller, or have plans to visit Tokyo in the future (perhaps for the Olympics), then I'm certain you'll love The Little Book of Tokyo." -- Castleview Academy"Author and photographer Ben Simmons has lavishly illustrated the book with his glorious photography, capturing much of the essence of the Japanese culture, as well as its people, landmarks, and natural beauty." --Travel Pulse"Part travel guide, part dreamy immersion, this small-scale book is divided into four parts exploring Tokyo's spirit, traditions, sights and modern offerings. You'll have insider information on shrines, temples, festivals, style, shopping, dining, Kabuki theater and Sumo wrestling at your fingertips." --Global Traveler

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Definitely highly recommended to all who are interested in Tokyo or would-be travelers." --Parka Blogs"This book is definitely on point with the introduction and descriptions of each location and if you would like to dive deeper and experience it, you just have to visit Tokyo!" --Jay-han.com blog"It's not the usual travel guidebook, but Tokyo -- Capital of Cool does offer plenty of authentic ways to experience Tokyo's neighborhoods, culture and trends. The hardcover from Tuttle Publishing by Rob Goss is richly illustrated with photos of places and phenomena organized geographically by district as well as by topics like architecture, food and festivals." --Associated Press

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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lensFans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as Tóibín examines a wide range of subjects—politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, and facing mortality. The poems reflect a life well-traveled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through Tóibín’s unique lens.

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Book SynopsisA charming sketchbook of images of Cambridge drawn in 1913.

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Book SynopsisEdinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its atmosphere since the turbulent fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when riots, processions, or public executions jammed the High Street. And the very different era that followed the bloody religious wars of the seventeenth century is epitomized by the elegant streets and squares of the New Town - the eighteenth-century Enlightenment whose writers, philosophers and lawyers made Edinburgh famous. This anthology of extracts from letters, memoirs, diaries, novels and biographies of interesting visitors and inhabitants, including the writings of Scott, Boswell, Cockburn, John Knox and many others, recreates for today''s visitors the drama, the history, and the life of the city in buildings and places that can still be visited. The daring Scottish recapture of the Castle from the English in 1313; the confrontatiTrade ReviewA little miracle of space...this book makes his city a thousandfold more captivating by his kaleidoscope of insights on its inheritance. -- Owen Dudley Edwards * The Scotsman *

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Book SynopsisThe must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all. Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a place that creates things. What began as a trading post for beaver pelts soon transformed into a hub of technological, social, and cultural innovation—but beyond fostering literal inventions like the elevator (inside Cooper Union in 1853), Q-tips (by Polish immigrant Leo Gerstenzang in 1923), General Tso’s chicken (reimagined for American tastes in the 1970s by one of its Hunanese creators), the singles bar (1965 on the Upper East Side), and Scrabble (1931 in Jackson Heights), the city has given birth to or perfected idioms, forms, and ways of thinking that have changed the world, from Abstract Expressionism to Broadway, baseball to hip-hop, news blogs to neoconservatism to the concept of “downtown.” Those creations and more are all collected in Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK “Fans of the Big Apple will delight in this well-written, abundant and justly prideful collection… The editors convincingly argue that everything from abstract expressionism and the auteur theory to punk rock, Q-Tips, the teddy bear, toilet paper (and the urinal), and zoning regulations owes its origins to the five boroughs.” —Kirkus Reviews “The depth and variety of images, including cartoons, iconic pictures, magazine covers, and newspaper headlines, capture the city’s character and make the book a standout… A must purchase; those who love New York will adore it, and those less enamored with the Big Apple will still find this fun and informative encyclopedia a fascinating portrait of the metropolitan area.” —Library Journal (starred review) “The Encyclopedia of New York ("City" is implied) has the charm and wry wit readers associate with New York magazine, combined with great illustrations and up-to-the-minute currency… The reasonable price makes it a worthy addition to a public library with patrons who enjoy lighthearted, browsable reference resources.” —BooklistPRAISE FOR HIGHBROW, LOWBROW, BRILLIANT, DESPICABLE: 50 YEARS OF NEW YORK MAGAZINE “With irreverence and spunk, New York magazine has been around for half a century now. This very big book includes an oral history of the publication and a wide look at its greatest moments.” —New York Times Book Review “When New York magazine began in 1968, it was unique: a brash conglomeration of ingenious writers, editors, and graphic designers who generated narrative journalism that was so classic it became new again. . . . Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: 50 Years of New York encapsulates those five convulsive decades in lavish illustrations, vivid oral histories, and evocative recreations by, among others, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Nicholas Pileggi, Julie Baumgold and Gael Greene from the magazine’s more than 2,300 issues.” —Sam Roberts, The New York Times “A delicious compendium of the magazine’s coverage from the half-century of its existence, this is the kind of book that incites nostalgia even for the moments you didn’t live though (there’s the original Tom Wolfe “Radical Chic” cover!) and reminds us of the things that haven’t changed (an essay by a wife titled “I Need a Wife,” timely now and forever).” —Vogue “Oversized, overstuffed . . . A great magazine is commemorated with an equally top-flight anthology. . . . The editors reproduce material that speaks not just to passing moments and fashions, but also to constant editorial emphases, such as high-quality artwork and portraiture. . . . History, local and global, unfolds in this fine gathering that represents a half-century and more than 2,300 issues.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “We tend to fetishize The New Yorker, but New York magazine has always been the publication that saw the city for what it is: big, brazen, and blustery. This oversized, beautifully-designed, 420-page book is barely big enough to contain its subject.” —Design Observer

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