The Georgian elegance of Bath, from the sweeping terrace of the Royal Crescent to the Roman Baths and splendid, sixteenth-century Abbey, attracts tourists from all over the world. Through over 140 stunning images, Cleare's camera shows us a Bath apparently far from the tourist honeypots, yet close enough to them to make this a fascinating souvenir of one of Britain's best-known cities.
The year 2000 is the 50th anniversary of the climbing of the first 8,000m peak. In the decade which followed that first climb all bar one of the world’s 14 peaks over 8,000m were climbed: the Golden Age of high altitude climbing. The single exception was Shishapangma.
Typical of the series, this book looks at the mountains of the world, including the series signature panoramas. Starts with a How mountains are made section, includes a glossary and then covers the mountains in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania (including Australasia and Antarctica).
The Greatest Japanese Poetry from Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and Their Followers
Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, who modernized the form and coined the very term haiku . Enhancing their work are four seasonally-themed groups of verse, many written by Basho’s students and associates. The translation is thoroughly readable and contemporary, and the images evocative. An enlightening introduction offers biographical information on the featured poets, background on the nature of haiku and its development within the Japanese poetic tradition, and a short account of the Buddhist practice to which most of the writers were connected.
