The British Isles

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THE
BRITISH ISLES
A Photographic Journey
The British Isles, a Photographic Journey is a celebration in words and pictures of the magnificent landscape of these islands. This book seeks to uncover the rare essence that marks the countryside of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland apart from all others. Nowhere else in the world is richer than the British Isles in its patchwork of natural beauty, accentuated by the play of light and shade upon the landscape; by the tone which moss, lichen and fern impart to mellow stonework; by spired churches and ruined castles, and by the history which has been stitched into the fabric of her landscape - into thyme-scented downland and prirrurose-haunted hedgerow; into silver threads of stream and darkling reed-mere.
The enormous variety of coimtryside to be experienced in these islands is what makes a journey through their landscape so infinitely rewarding. Within this book the variety of the British Isles is photographically charted, and... Tovább

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THE
BRITISH ISLES
A Photographic Journey
The British Isles, a Photographic Journey is a celebration in words and pictures of the magnificent landscape of these islands. This book seeks to uncover the rare essence that marks the countryside of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland apart from all others. Nowhere else in the world is richer than the British Isles in its patchwork of natural beauty, accentuated by the play of light and shade upon the landscape; by the tone which moss, lichen and fern impart to mellow stonework; by spired churches and ruined castles, and by the history which has been stitched into the fabric of her landscape - into thyme-scented downland and prirrurose-haunted hedgerow; into silver threads of stream and darkling reed-mere.
The enormous variety of coimtryside to be experienced in these islands is what makes a journey through their landscape so infinitely rewarding. Within this book the variety of the British Isles is photographically charted, and encompasses all the regions from the magnificently divergent landscapes of the western shore of Ireland, through to the chalk downlands of Southern England to the lovely, ancient cities of East Anglia. It journeys to the Cotswolds and to the gentle terrain of the vales and the Welsh mountains. From the shixe country of England's heartland the warmth of the South gives way to rugged Lakeland grandeur and the cold fells and sheltered dales of the North. This book depicts also the southern uplands of Scotland, which in turn rise into the full, glorious fury of the Highlands, whose dramatic scenery of remote mountains, lochs and islands are the equal of any. Vissza