Explorers' Sketchbooks

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 sep 2016

Huw Lewis-Jones is former curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute and National Maritime Museum. Among his other books are Across the Arctic Ocean, The Conquest of Everest and The Crossing of Antarctica. Kari Herbert, explorer Sir Wally Herbert¿s daughter, is the author of The Explorer¿s Daughter, In Search of the South Pole and Heart of the Hero.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780500252192
ISBN-10: 050025219X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: With over 400 illustrations in colour and black and white
Dimensiuni: 194 x 272 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.46 kg
Editura: Thames & Hudson

Notă biografică

Huw Lewis-Jones is former curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute and National Maritime Museum. Among his other books are Arctic, Ocean Portraits, In Search of the South Pole, The Conquest of Everest, which won the History Award at the 2013 Banff Mountain Festival and Mountain Heroes.

Cuprins

Foreword by Robert Macfarlane . Introduction: These Rough Notes, Huw Lewis-Jones & Kari Herbert . The Sketchbooks . Essays: This Glorious Forest, Ghillean Prance; Another World, Alan Bean; Infinite Beauty, Tony Foster; Indispensable Friends, David Ainley; Making Marks, Wade Davis

Descriere

Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the years, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed - the journal. In this title, the sketchbooks and journals presented allow us to share, the on-the-spot reactions of around 70 intrepid individuals as they journeyed far corners of the earth.

Papetărie, jocuri, reviste