Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dime novels
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Happy Days
Author: The American Book Collector
Author: W. B. ThorsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The American Book Collector (Arlington Heights.)
Author: Out Of Africa
Author: Isak DinesenPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443432954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Atget
Author: John SzarkowskiPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870705784
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This volume presents the essence of the work of the great French photographer Eugène Atget through one hundred carefully selected photographs. Atget devoted more than thirty years of his life to the task of documenting the city of Paris and the surrounding countryside, and in the process created an oeuvre that brilliantly explains the great richness, complexity, and authentic character of his native culture. John Szarkowski, an acknowledged master of the art of looking at photographs, explores the unique sensibilities that made Atget one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and a vital influence on the development of modern and contemporary photography. The eloquent introductory text and commentaries on Atget’s photographs form an extended essay on the remarkable visual intelligence displayed in these subtle, sometimes enigmatic pictures.
The History Of Randolph County, Illinois, Including Old Kaskaskia Island
Author: E. J. MontaguePublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354366543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden
Author: Elizabeth Macarthur Macarthur-OnslowPublisher:
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Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
John Macarthur, of Camden, New South Wales, introduced the merino sheep into Australia and founded the Australian wool trade.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998
Author: Henri Cartier-BressonPublisher: Aperture Foundation
ISBN: 9781597113922
Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Presented for the first time in English, this volume brings together twelve notable interviews and conversations with Henri Cartier-Bresson carried out between 1951 and 1998. While many of us are acquainted with his images, there are so few texts available by Cartier-Bresson on his photographic process. These verbal, primary accounts capture the spirit of the master photographer and serve as a lasting document of his life and work, which has inspired generations of photographers and artists. Here, Cartier-Bresson speaks passionately, with metaphors and similes, about the world and photography. A man of principles shaped by the evolving eras of the twentieth century, his major influences included Surrealism, European politics of the 1930s and '40s, the Second World War, and his experiences with Magnum as cofounder and reporter. This book illuminates his thoughts, personality, and reflections on a seminal career. In his own words: [Photography] is a way of questioning the world and questioning yourself at the same time. . . . It entails a discipline. For me, freedom is a basic frame of reference, and inside that frame are all the possible variations. Everything, everything, everything. But it is within a frame. The important thing is the sense of limit. And visually, it is the sense of form. Form is important. The structure of things. The space.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Author: Martin GardnerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131629
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.