Felix Barker Books

Art derives less often from portraying the exotic than from depicting the familiar in a new light. These 150 stunning aerial pictures capture the everyday sights of London from striking angles and in many moods. Distant views show the shape of the city in summer and snow-bound winter, and from the night lights to midday sunshine--imbuing London landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, and the Thames with a magical quality. Accompanying the photos is lively commentary illuminating details that a cursory glance might miss and explaining how the shape of modern streets, parks, and public buildings has been influenced by the city's ancient history. Panoramic, colorful, and majestic, this book will delight those familiar with the city of London, as well as those armchair travelers who have yet to sample its many charms. 10 1/2" x 11 1/2".

A very good copy in a used jacket. Nice history and historic illustrations. 4to - over 9?" - 12" Tall

This beautifully illustrated book is the history of the world's greatest city and its people. It traces the development of London through the ages: the first rough dwellings on the Thames marshes in the first century AD; the city of the Norman Kings, the guilds and the Tudors; the London of Wren, the great Regency developers and the stately Victorians; and the sprawling, many-faced city of today. Here is the vast, unique pageant of London's life: from the great Royal occasions to the tragedies of fire and plague; from conspiracies and rebellions to fairs and pleasure gardens. And here is the life of the city through the eyes of contemporary writers, artists, actors and musicians, recording, applauding and sometimes despairing of the London they knew. With almost 1,000 illustrations, many of them never reproduced before, this definitive history of London is now available in paperback for the first time.

Highgate Cemetery, clinging to the southern slope of Highgate Hill, looks out across London to the Epsom Downs in the distance. It is one of the great cemeteries of the world (to those who know it, one of the Wonders) but in many ways it is also one of the most secret. A maze of rising terraces, winding paths, tombs and catacombs, it is a monument to the Victorian age and to the Victorian attitude to death. Containing some of the most celebrated -- and often most eccentric -- funerary architecture to be found anywhere, it has also, as nature has gradually taken it over, become a wild-life reserve near the centre of London. Now after many years of neglect, the cemetery is being lovingly restored, the dense foliage cut back, nature brought under control and its treasures revealed. In Highgate Victorian Valhalla the London historian Felix Barker tells fully and for the first time the story of this burial ground. But, above all, the book contains a unique pictorial record of its moods and its monuments caught over the last twenty years by John Gay whose photographs superbly and evocatively convey the spirit of the place.

Dejiny zemepisných prieskumov a objavov. Kapitoly: Prvá časť-Prví cestovatelia-1. Do neznáma, 2. Cesty Egypťanov, 3. Priekopníci z Fenície, 4. Z Kartága na západ, 5. Grécki dobrodruhovia, 6. Alexander Veľký, 7. Nové horizonty, 8. Hannibal prekročil Alpy, 9. Objavy Rimanov, 10. Hodvábna cesta doČíny, 11. Koniec začiatku. Druhá časť-Za horizont-1.Veľký Atlantický oceán, 2. Nájazdy Vikingov, 3. Island a Grónsko, 4. Vikingovia v Severnej Amerike, 5. Džingischán a Mongoli, 6. Poslovia u veľkého chána, 7. Cesty Viliama Rubroeka, 8.Obchodné cesty, 9. Benátčania sa vracajú, 10. Marco Polo v Číne, 11. Cesty vedú do Číny. Tretia časť-Veľký vek objavov-1. Historická výzva, 2. Odpoveď, 3. More temnôt, 4. S nádejou na juh, 5. S Kolumbom na západ, 6. S Vascom da Gama na východ, 7. Ďalej na východ i na západ, 8. Okolo sveta.