Colourful Austria

Fülszöveg

This book is a completely new
edition of Colourful Austria, which
has been a popular favourite for
many years, especially as a pre-
sent to friends in all parts of
the world. In his foreword
Heinz Scheibenpflug, a well-known
Austrian writer and journalist,
discusses present-day Austria and
its people at the heart of Europe;
while Dr. Maria Neusser-Hro-
matka contributes a lucid chrono-
logical table of Austria's historical
development.
The backbone of the book are of
course the 96 pages of photo-
graphs in colour, taken by masters
of their profession. The pictures
are well-chosen and constitute
vivid illustrations of the beauties
and individuality of the Austrian
scene, of the nine Provinces and
their capitals; while reproductions
of some of Austria's outstanding
cultural monuments afford elo-
quent testimony to the country's
wealth of artistic treasures. Atten-
tion is also focused on some of
Austria's equally typical but less
glamorous features: a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This book is a completely new
edition of Colourful Austria, which
has been a popular favourite for
many years, especially as a pre-
sent to friends in all parts of
the world. In his foreword
Heinz Scheibenpflug, a well-known
Austrian writer and journalist,
discusses present-day Austria and
its people at the heart of Europe;
while Dr. Maria Neusser-Hro-
matka contributes a lucid chrono-
logical table of Austria's historical
development.
The backbone of the book are of
course the 96 pages of photo-
graphs in colour, taken by masters
of their profession. The pictures
are well-chosen and constitute
vivid illustrations of the beauties
and individuality of the Austrian
scene, of the nine Provinces and
their capitals; while reproductions
of some of Austria's outstanding
cultural monuments afford elo-
quent testimony to the country's
wealth of artistic treasures. Atten-
tion is also focused on some of
Austria's equally typical but less
glamorous features: a hut on a
high Alpine pasture perhaps, a
wayside shrine, a farmstead bay-
window, or an autumn glimpse of
some unfrequented path in the
Vienna Woods.
In short, the book is a worthily
comprehensive presentation of a
country that is rightly beloved by
Austrians and visitors alike; and
it is the infinite variety of the
Austrian landscape that makes
this country such an ideal subject
for reproduction in colour. Vissza