This exquisitely beautiful series of books portrays the cultures, landscapes, fauna, flora and history of an individual country with over 150 stunning photographs and well-written and knowledgeable text. To nineteenth-century Europeans, they were the "noblest savages, " an elite corps of painted and feathered warriors, strangely aristocratic in ...
From the Taru Desert and the Suguta Valley to the palm-fringed Indian Ocean coastline, from ice-capped Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest mountain to the endless, rolling savannah, Kenya is an area of great natural diversity. Home to more than 80 major species of wildlife, Kenya's conservation programmes cover many areas of protected forest and ...
This is both a history of conservatism and a conservative interpretation of British history. Chapters include the Tory tradition up to 1900, the strange death of conservative England, freedom and prosperity, post-war conservatism and the roots of Thatcherism. The second section of this book discusses Conservative principles such as the case ...
This exquisitely beautiful series of books portrays the cultures, landscapes, fauna, flora and history of an individual country with over 150 stunning photographs and well-written and knowledgeable text. First settled in the seventeenth century, the islands remain much the same as they were thousands of years ago, existing in harmony the past 200 ...
This exquisitely beautiful series of books portrays the cultures, landscapes, fauna, flora and history of an individual country with over 150 stunning photographs and well-written and knowledgeable text. Few nations boast such a close affinity to the great historical epochs of the world as Jordan. Nor many match its dry and dusty beauty. Here the ...
For the Maasai, nothing has proved an inducement to change during the last 100 years. Their isolation, their land, traditions, codes, and values have all been defended in a long, mostly passive war of resistance. Here the photographers have produced a comprehensive pictorial record and John Eames gives the narrative background to these remarkable ...
This exquisitely beautiful series of books portrays the cultures, landscapes, fauna, flora and history of an individual country with over 150 stunning photographs and well-written and knowledgeable text. Colonized by the British for more than SO years, ending with independence in 1963, Kenya draws visitors from all over the world to see its ...
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