These modern and unconventional photographs portray an Italy that is very different from the one most people are accustomed to seeing on postcards. In this book, Italy and its heritage of nature, history, culture and humanity are presented from a unique vantage point -- the sky -- with pictures taken by two of today's most respected specialized ...
A repository of 3,000 years of accumulated history, art, and culture, Rome is like no other city in the world. This portfolio of panoramas spotlights the architecture and art that have earned Rome the designation of a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Taken from a variety of birds-eye perspectives, the images in this volume depict the range of ...
Photographed from the sky, riding above the few clouds that cross the country, Egypt shows the best of itself. The course of the Nile, which cuts the desert in two from north to south, and the enormous delta provide glorious, lush vegetation sliced by a deep blue band. The white sails that slide over its waters and the spectacular monuments that ...
This volume takes readers on an aerial adventure above this ever-fascinating city and its surrounding region. A wide variety of panoramas depict the sights that are unique to Venice: the Lagoon with its islands of Burano, Torcello, and Murano; the network of canals branching out from the Grand Canal; the palaces, homes, and world-famous monuments ...
Imagine yourself in a rustic farmhouse in Tuscany, sipping cappuccino al fresco in an intimate piazza, or eating fresh-caught fish in a restaurant overlooking the sea. Featuring the spectacular travel photography for which White Star is world renowned, this addition to the Italy from Above series takes readers on a birds-eye tour of the most ...
One of the many pleasures of visiting Italy is the unique opportunity to walk amongst traces of the past. This welcome addition to White Star's Italy from Above aerial photography series uncovers archaeological sites scattered throughout the modern landscape of the Italian peninsula. Hundreds of full-color photographs whisk readers over Italy and ...
Splendido! This is perhaps the only way to describe this book, a superb photographic tableau that shows Italy from all angles with all the artistic insight and technical innovation worthy of the Bel Paese. All of Italy unfolds in a sumptuous collection of aerial images taken by photographers who know and love their own country. This is a "trophy" ...
In the mid-nineteenth century, the source of the Nile River was found through the efforts of British explorers Richard Burton, James Augustus Grant, and Samuel White Baker, who, through their tenacity, revealed the great river's secret. This handsome volume chronicles the expeditions, exotic lands, initial failures, and hard-won successes through ...
Featuring hundreds of bird's-eye photographs, this volume expands our perceptions of a city that already looms large in our mind's eye. Whisking readers above Venice and its surrounding region, these images depict a city that is as breathtakingly beautiful in reality as it is in our imagination. A wide variety of panoramas depict the sights that ...
Egypt, the land that saw the rise and fall of the most long-lived and enigmatic of the ancient Mediterranean civilizations, offers itself to the readers' gaze from on high, the best vantage point from which to experience its grandeur. Egypt is capable of staging spectacles of pure beauty: the boundless Sahara desert, the fertile Nile Valley, the ...
Italy has a richer and more varied historical and cultural heritage than most other countries in the world. Italian cities and towns are unique thanks to their extraordinary and unrepeatable historical situations and developments; moreover, centuries of artistic talent have created cities of extreme beauty at any time of day: bathed warm colors at ...
Milan is a wide and modern metropolis, with it's extremely extended reticular of streets, roads and houses. Milan is also a city of art. Ancient and modern architectural masterpieces emerge from its roofs: its Dome spires, the Pirelli skyscraper, its Castle.The motorways that leave the city centre stretch towards its outskirts, and its rich and ...
Take an aerial journey across Egypt, the landscape of natural contrasts and ancient heritage and see the wonders of the country as if you were one of the ancient gods themselves: * the boundless Sahara desert * the fertile Nile valley * the sandy beaches of the Mediterranean * the coral reefs of the Red Sea * the wadis scorching in the sun * the ...
A stunning photographic view of the sun-drenched cities, coastlines, and resorts that make Florida such a vacationer's paradise. Over 150 full-color photographs.
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Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
