The British Museum Visitor's Guide
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
The two major new galleries are featured - the award-winning Wellcome Trust Gallery of Living and Dying, and Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century.
John Reeve Books
Living Arts of Japan
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
The British Museum world religions visitor's guide : self-guided tours
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
The British Museum has one of the world's outstanding collections of objects related to many of the religions and faiths of the world since earliest times. This guidebook offers seven specific tours covering major religions, such as Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, as well as many other faiths.
Ukiyo-e are paintings and prints of 'the floating world' of Edo (Tokyo), which had transformed itself in just a century from a swampy village to a metropolis of about a million people. This book offers a glimpse of a vanished world that is fresh and visually rewarding to modern eyes.
