Children's Playhouses: Plans and Ideas

Book Description

This is the first and only book of its kind, picturing hundreds of colorful, creative childrens playhouses, from fancy Victorians to neo-classical creations, all built in a childs scale. Half a dozen of the nations leading manufacturers are profiled, with both inside and outside images of their creations. The fanciful works pictured vary from the wildly colorful to the scale-model imitations of Mom and Dads home, from all-askew assemblies of antiques and found objects to a sleek, abstract nautilus designed for a charitable fundraiser. For the do-it-yourselfer, plans and blueprints for half a dozen playhouses are provided, as well as images with plenty of fodder for creating something exquisitely new and unique. This is a dream book for parents, grandparents, and their little pals to pour over, with more than 200 beautiful images to spark the imaginations of young and adult alike. A resource guide will help them make their dreams come true.

Customer Reviews:

Good as a picture book.......2006-02-18

This will give you creative ideas on different playhouses, but it won't show you how to build them. Out of 50 or so pictures, only 2 or 3 have plans; and general plans at that.

Ideas Yes, Plans No.......2005-02-09

Basically a pictures only book of professional designed and built playhouses. Some of the photos are of poor quality and should not have been included. Forget about the Plans part, they are mediocre at best. You may find inspiration in the photos, but I was underwhelmed with the purchase.

Misleading Title - .......2004-10-07

This is a picture book with a few "plans" but does not contain details necessary to undertake a building project. If you want to look at photographs so that you can get some ideas, than this book will be helpful. If you want a book to guide you through the steps necessary to construct a playhouse - this is not the one.

Lots of Great Pictures.......2002-02-20

I bought every book I could find on the subject (four) and this was the most extensive, both in terms of plans (there are projects that are spelled out step-by-step as well as blueprints for others) and projects and lots and lots of colorful pictures.
I'm really into the decorating, so there were lots of cool ideas for color themes and furnishings and such. Some of the pictures were kind of crappy, but they were better than no pictures at all, which is pretty much what you get with the other books.

Great pictures, little else........2001-10-25

I was looking for a book with more than 7 plans in it although it does have lots of fun pictures of all different styles of playhouses. There are several websites to check but it was not what I was hoping for.

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This groundbreaking book explores the Evolution of Consciousness in a way that is both visionary yet commonsensible. Alan Sasha Lithman provides a breathtaking new vision of our future. Essential reading for the Third Millennium

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A Must Read for Infinite Players.......2006-03-10

Every couple of years over the past two decades, I've been given, or discover, or have been discovered by, a book that grabs me by the scruff of my neck and forces me to face up to yet another vital new view of ourselves and our role in the grand evolutionary process.

This has been the sequence of these literary epiphanies:

Fritjof Capra's "Tao of Physics"
Buckminster Fuller's "Critical Path"
Arthur Young's "Reflexive Universe"
Paramahansa Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi"
Ken Carey's "The Third Millennium"
Barbara Marx Hubbard's "Conscious Evolution"
Duane Elgin's "Awakening Earth"
Richard Moss' "The Second Miracle"
Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry's "The Universe Story"
Ken Wilber's "Sex, Ecology Spirituality"
Janine Benyus' "Biomimicry"

Alan Sasha Lithman's An Evolutionary Agenda is the latest book to capture my sentence-by-sentence underlining, highlighting, annotating, early-morning-contemplative attention.

James Carse, in "Finite and Infinite Games," provides a distinction that's quite appropriate for Lithman's work:

"Finite players play within boundaries,
infinite players play with boundaries."

Lithman is clearly an infinite player. He's written a book for fellow infinite players, and especially for designers of infinite games-those he calls "evolutionary activists.

What Lithman brings to above lineup of luminous literature is a wonderfully sophisticated bridging between the cosmic aspects of this evolutionary moment of truth, and the very real systemic developmental challenges we face as a species. I particularly appreciated his challenging those spiritual traditions whose teachings imply that individual enlightenment is our ultimate goal as humans. I also was grateful for his descriptions of how many of our "evolutionary thinkers" do us a disservice by skipping over the very real transitional challenges we are only beginning to appreciate as a species.

Lithman has been influenced by Sri Aurobindo, Michael Murphy and, no doubt, a bevy of cosmic guides and muses. At times, his style reminds me of the poetic prose of Ken Carey's "The Third Millennium."

If you are a committed steward for the future, an infinite player, a pathfinder, an evolutionary activist, then "An Evolutionary Agenda" is must reading for you.

Enjoy!

A visionary yet grounded approach to "evolutionary activism".......2003-10-02

I was deeply touched by this book, both for its scope and vision as well as its practical approach to conscious evolution. I was drawn to this work by Barbara Marx Hubbard who says in the intro note to the book:

"As an evolutionary explorer, I encounter every now and then another kindred person on the same path who possesses a brilliance and deep understanding of our evolutionary potential. Alan Sasha Lithman is such a person. I highly recommend his Evolutionary Agenda to all those who feel the emergent potential of humanity arising in their hearts, and who long to be more effective in their actions in the world." -Barbara Marx Hubbard, President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution; author of Emergence and Conscious Evolution.

There was so much to take in that I found not only insightful but original and ground-breaking. It has given me a whole new way of looking at the meaning behind our evolutionary crises as well as positive steps to more consciously address them, opening the door to our future possibilities as an ongoing species. I know I will reread this work many times in the coming millennium.

May we all move forward as a more conscious species, hospicing the old world as we midwife the new.

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"Who are the mutants? We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others."

Variety, even deformity, may seem like an unlikely route by which to approach normality, even perfection. Yet much of what we know about the mechanisms of human development, growth, and aging comes from the study of people who are afflicted with congenital diseases, most of which have genetic causes. Congenital abnormalities reveal not only errors within the womb, but also our evolutionary history.

In Mutants, Armand Marie Leroi gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic grammar and the people whose bodies have revealed it, balancing both the science and the stories behind some of history's most captivating figures-including a French convent girl who found herself changing sex upon puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; a hairy family who was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations (and from whom Darwin took one of his keenest insights into heredity); and the ostrich-footed Wadoma of the Zambezi River Valley.

Stepping effortlessly from myth to molecular biology, this elegant, humane, and illuminating book is about us all.

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Involving and Entertaining.......2007-09-26

I picked up this book after looking through The Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia coffee-table book I received for my birthday. This book looks at human genetic variety through the lens of 'mutants' - people who, in years past, might have been referred to as 'freaks.' The genetic basis of each disorder is laid out. The book teaches much about developmental biology and genetics. In addition, it has many individual life stories as well as bits on history and the history of science.

I picked up this book really intending just to browse through it. I ended up quickly reading the entire book. I am a lover of science books written for the layman, and this is one is very good. It will give you an appreciation for yourself and all those around you.

RU486.......2007-08-02

I am in the process of reading this book, so far I am enjoying it. I am, however considering discontuing reading because of a gross mistake. The author refers to the RU486 as "the morning after pill". This is completely false! RU486 is the so-called abortion pill(s). This is taken AFTER the woman becomes pregnant, generally within the 1st 8 weeks of conception. The morning after pill is a PREVENTATIVE method. If there is an actual pregnancy the morning after pill will DO NOTHING to the pregancy! This book is obviously written by a man who understands the basics of science, but I suppose women's health is excluded from science.

Lively, smart and sympathetic.......2007-04-28

This is an excellent book on the understanding of human genetics, and humanity itself. I've always found biology fascinating, but most books I've stumbled across seem to quickly skim over the subject of abnormalities, as if assuming the reader would be offended or frightened. I think it's natural to be curious about the unusual, and this book does a terrific job of explaining it.

Drawing on history, legend, and modern knowledge, Leroi deals with the process of a human body forming - not just what can go wrong and why, but how these genetic hiccups actually help our understanding of things going right. The writing skips easily between time periods, and for the most part is accessible and not overly technical.

Very squeamish readers might not be keen on some of the photos and illustrations, but they're used tastefully and supplement the text very well. People looking for a "hoo boy, grody freakshow pictures!" book will be let down. However, I was a little disappointed in the relative lack of scientific illustrations to accompany the sections describing the body's construction and growth processes, which would make it a bit clearer for visually-oriented people like me.

Leroi describes his subjects humanely, neither glorifying their abnormalities nor expressing disgust or ridicule at them. In addition, he presents the reality that we are all mutants. Our DNA isn't static or perfect, and that's what makes humanity strange, interesting, and beautiful.

It's fascinating and elegantly written; full of insight, dignity and respect you don't often see in books dealing with subjects like this. I highly recommend it to anyone even vaguely interested in biology or genetics.

Excellent.......2006-09-21

This is no modern day freak show but a very sensitive, respectful and graceful examination of human genetic mutations that our increasing understanding of genes and developmental biology now allows. Development is followed from conception through the growth of limbs, bone, size, genitals, skin etc with examples of the most extreme mutations and their effects.

But it is not only about the extreme mutations. Leroi is also, and perhaps more so, interested in the everyday variation amongst us all and ends with a chapter about human variation and our perceptions of and reactions to 'beauty'.

Human variation and its genetic causes is a subject often difficult to approach because of our history of how we have reacted to difference but this book puts all such worries aside. As Leroi states: 'Injustice can sometimes be the consequence of new knowledge but far more often it slips in through the cracks of our ignorance.'

An excellent book and an excellent example of how our natural curiosity about ourselves and our physical differences can be approached with great dignity and respect.

Graceful exposition of a disturbing topic.......2006-06-30

The human body is a masterpiece of complex interlinked parts, ideally working in harmony. All of us contain slight variations from the norm making each of us a mutant in a technical sense. However, in certain rare human beings the genetic orchestra plays so dissonant a tune that the end product classifies as a "Mutant" in the generally accepted sense of the word.

When the genetic tune goes awry to the extent portrayed by the case studies in the book, dealing with this topic requires of an author a multitude of versatile attributes. He/she needs to paint a verbal picture of the disorder, to put the human under study in historical or geographical context and explain the biological conditions under which the mutation occurred. Leroi rises to the task with grace and authority, making for a fascinating book.

Leroi scouts sources in locales far and wide, effortlessly leaping back and forth across the centuries to find subjects for his exposition. In many cases he supplements his descriptions with illustrations and photographs. His prose is evocative and erudite, circumventing the tedium it could easily segue into, given his academic interest in the subject. However disturbing the topic (and personally I do not delight in the macabre), this is a book well worth reading. I would also recommend this as a great Halloween gift.

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Mutation of mind
Vimala Thakar
Manufacturer: E.A.M. Frankena-Geraets and L.E. Frankena
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007JKEJG

Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Bio-Technology and the Mutations of Desire (Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy Series)

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Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Bio-Technology and the Mutations of Desire (Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy Series)
Luciana Parisi
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0826469906

Book Description

Astract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex.

Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information.

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(Per)mutations of Qohelet explores the question, Who is Qohelet? Rather than peering behind or through the text to answer this question in terms of authorship, Koosed analyzes the identity that is created through the words on the page. The text is not a transparent medium connecting reader with author; instead, it is an opaque body - it has weight, substance, skin.

Koosed begins with an analysis of the ways in which words construct identities and the reasons why words can affect us so profoundly, relying primarily on the work of Judith Butler and Elaine Scarry. She then explores autobiography and how the genre of autobiography - as reconfigured by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida - relates to Qohelet. These two chapters then set the framework for what follows: an analysis of the various bodily organs and sensations contained within the book of Qohelet. The body is embedded in the text through the naming of body parts (eye, hand, heart). And this same body is encoded in form, structure, and syntax, so that the text becomes a body with organs, systems, and even a life of its own. The book is a body and the book speaks of bodies. It speaks of the body's organs and senses; it concerns itself with the pleasures and pains of the body, the gendered body, the dying body. Finally, the ritual body is highlighted in the final passage of this enigmatic book.

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THERE IS MORE THAN MOTHMAN THAN MEETS THE HUMAN EYE. . .

Strange Mutants: From Mothman to Demon Dogs and Phantom Cats
John A. Keel
Manufacturer: Inner Light - Global Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1892062372

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AUTHOR JOHN KEEL'S MOTHMAN PROPHECIES TAKES TO THE BIG SCREEN STARRING RICHARD GERE

John Keel is America's number one paranormal investigator. Recently his MOTHMAN PROPHECIES was made into a major motion picture starring Richard Gere. And his work on the winged creatures has just been re released.

STRANGE MUTANTS was first published in l982 and is a slightly condensed version of the out of print CREATURES FROM TIME AND SPACE that fans had clammered for.

We thought this book was out of print until we recenly found several cartons hidden in the back of our warehouse an have decided to make it available once again.

Says Keel: "No matter where you live, someone within two hundred miles of your home has had a direct confrontation with a frightening apparition o inexplicable monster...There is a chance - a very good on - that sometime in the next few years you will actually come face to face with a giant hair-covered humanoid or a little man with bulgin eyes, surrounded by aghostly greenish glow."

There are three chapters on the winged flying beings...including one on the monster of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Other chapters include:

O Ambling Nightmares.

O The Uglies and the Nasties.

O Giants in the Earth.

O Those Silly Flying Saucer People.

O The Grinning Man.

O Cattle Rustlers From The Skies.

O The Incomprehensibles.

O Big Feet and Little Brains.

Adds Keel: "We now know that our little planet is infested with remarkable animals an insects that defy common sense. . ."

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THERE IS MORE THAN MOTHMAN THAN MEETS THE HUMAN EYE. . ........2002-02-07

JOHN A KEEL TELLS IT LIKE IT IS. . .He is one of a kind. Few writers are able to convay the stark terror and horror of confronting the unknown. Most writers on the paranormal are too "conservative" in their approach -- too afraid to tell it like in is. Instead they play down -- actually water down -- their relating of documentated accounts for fear that other researchers in the field will think they have gone batty or over the edge. Keel does not hold out -- he goes right to the heart of the matter; never afraid to face controversary head on. MOTHMAN PROPHECIES the movie is loosely based on Keel's block buster book which is now back on the best seller list even though it was written about 25 years ago. After seeing the film, if you are a true fan of the strange and unexplained, you can not help but agree that the cimena version of the book does NOT go anywhere near as far as what Keel himself experienced at the height of paranoia in West Virginia. So those who feel they are missing something can bring themselves "up to speed" by ordering at least a couple Keel's best efforts from [Amazon.com] Besides MOTHMAN PROPHECIES (a must for any collector) only THE 8TH TOWER and CREATURES FROM TIME AND SPACE come close to duplicating the reality of other realms and dimensions. I had tried for years to get a copy of Keel's CREATURES FROM TIME AND SPACE book without much luck (rare book dealers wanted [...] a copy) and therefore was delighted when I could get a much less expensive edition of the book which had been repackaged into a large 8xll format with some rather wild art work added by Carol Ann Rodriguez, known for her ability to depict the paranormal. I was also surprised that this included membership in the Monster Hunters Society of America, which I even realized was probably a publicity stunt on the part of the publisher when this edition first came out. As I turned the pages I couldn't help but be sucked in by Keel's wriing style and his attempt to get an important message across -- that we are not alone in the universe; that there are all sorts of invisibile creaturces just ready to jump out of the dark and drag us to another dimension. Keel's universe is not always rosey -- but it is all too important to deny its existence.

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Body in Mutation

Manufacturer: Exhibitions International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 2911596196

Studies on the lethal mutation of cornish fowl: Growth in length of long bones and increase in weight of the body and of some organs (Bulletin / Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station)

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Studies on the lethal mutation of cornish fowl: Growth in length of long bones and increase in weight of the body and of some organs (Bulletin / Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station)
Walter Landauer
Manufacturer: Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00089Y5IG

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Could be more consistent and in color.

Awesome!

too little information on fashion photography

Fashion Model Photography: Professional Techniques and Images
Billy Pegram
Manufacturer: Amherst Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Fashion | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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Professional Model Portfolios: A Step-by-Step Guide for Photographers

A Photographer's Guide to Shooting Model and Actor Portfolios

Lighting Techniques for Fashion and Glamour Photography

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The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography: Foolproof Recipes for Taking Perfect Portraits

ASIN: 0936262788

Book Description

Covering all aspects of fashion model photography, this book is for the professional or amateur photographer interested in shooting commercial model assignments or working with models to create portfolios. Tips on picking out each model's best features and highlighting them in photographs, hiding a model's flaws, and making models feel comfortable in form of the camera are detailed. This guide is full of images that are analyzed individually, describing the photographic techniques used to create them as well as the composition; lip, face, and hand posing, lighting and selection of clothing. Technical photographic advice is given on creating the perfect exposure to make a model's skin look its best and details how procedures such as cross-processing film can make images stand out and attract further business.

Customer Reviews:

Could be more consistent and in color........1999-10-14

I was very disappointed in Amherst and Mr. Pegram. The effort fell considerably short of a book geared toward instruction. Mr. Pegram continually makes reference to how he shot the subject, but never shows the effect of his tips, because the images are in B/W. Sometimes Billy informs you technically how he pulled the shoot off and other times it is a mystery. Amherst has been in the Photography instruction publishing business a long time, but I feel they should have stepped up and consulted with Mr. Pegram and published the book in color. BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME! How about a refund??????????????????????????????????????

Awesome!.......1999-08-13

This photographer has incredible talent and should publish additional books. A real learning experience.

too little information on fashion photography.......1999-06-29

This book talked mainly about the pictures in this book and not about actually doing fashion photography as well as working with models. I don't think it gave enough information about model photography that an acquiring mind would want to know. Also I realized that a lot of the pictures in the book were suppose to be in color but they were printed B&W.

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A unique and compelling narrative combining landscape design with science and philosophy.

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WEIRD GARDEN.......2007-02-22

ALOT OF TIME WENT INTO THIS GARDEN BUT I THINK THEY MISSED THE BOAT

Scotland's Gift: How America Discovered Golf

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Required reading for serious golfers

Scotland's Gift: How America Discovered Golf
Charles Blair Macdonald
Manufacturer: Tatra Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0966184769

Book Description

First published in 1928, Macdonald's Scotland's Gift is arguably the most important book ever written on American golf. Macdonald elegantly chronicles how golf grew from being a little-known Scottish oddity with a mere handful of American courses in 1890 and spread like wild fire to some 4,000 courses by 1927.

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Required reading for serious golfers.......2004-11-19

Although I don't know that I could define "serious golfer" off hand, you might fit in that category if:

You have ever played at the National Golf Links of America
Want to know how the USGA came to be
Wonder what golf was like in the late 19th century in the US
Dream of building your own course, but have no clue what "good design" is

Personally, I fit into the last slot. Most of us play rounds or look at yardage books and try to figure out why one course is on the top 100 of every magazine, and another never seems to see the light of day in print. For people like this, we need books on golf architecture. This book contains, arguably, one of the most concise takes on the subject.

It would be misleading to say that architecture is the only matter covered. Actually, it only accounts for about a quarter of the volume in total. The rest is the personal narrative of Macdonald as the pioneer of golf in America, and as one of the founders of the USGA. It also discusses early tournaments in the US, which may be of interest to history buffs. Much of this is probably required knowledge to have any sort of intelligent discussion on golf history, and is worth a quick read at the least.

Given that Macdonald was involved with the USGA for the decades after its inception, he also was there to witness the begining of problems that still plague the game today. Namely, the question of equipment, particularly ball, regulation, and amateur status rules. A person wondering what the current USGA is doing might be interested to know what they did in the past, if anything to gain a little perspective on how times have changed. Incidentally, Macdonald himself was dead against allowing the "bane of professionalism" and the "self-driven manufacturers" from infecting the game of golf. Conversely, he was against equipment regulation for the most part, even the ball, although he does suggest making a requirement for balls to float in water to allow more possibilities for play and to keep lost balls to a minimum.

The appendix contains reference material such as a sample of the earliest rules of golf, and those used by the R & A in the mid 19th century.

The only thing I would have liked to see in the book, as it is a reprint, was more detail regarding the layout of the National. That is, diagrams and drawings of the routing and holes. Photographs can only say so much, and while we have a routing diagram for the Mid-ocean Club, we have none for the National, even though it got its own chapter. It is a course that most likely needs to be experienced to be understood by any measure, but any additional clues as to the design would help us understand Macdonald's efforts that much better.

Follies and Pleasure Pavilions: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales

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Follies and Pleasure Pavilions: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
George Mott , and Sally Sample Aall
Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810911752

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Geology and Landscapes of Scotland
Con Gillen
Manufacturer: Terra Publishing (UK)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1903544092

The Best of Britain's Countryside: Northern England and Scotland : A Driving and Walking Itinerary (The Two-Week Traveler Series)

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Allows you to get off the beaten track - Great Guide
Excellent Resource for Walking in Britain
Fabulous book--can't believe it's out of print

The Best of Britain's Countryside: Northern England and Scotland : A Driving and Walking Itinerary (The Two-Week Traveler Series)
Bill North , and Gwen North
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Best of Britain's Countryside: The Heart of England and Wales : A Driving and Walking Itinerary (The Two-Week Traveler Series)

ASIN: 0898862051

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Allows you to get off the beaten track - Great Guide.......2000-06-20

The third book in a series (Northern England & Scotland & Southern England the other two) that allows you to get off the beaten track to see the countryside and quaint remote areas of England.

Laid out in sixteen chapters, with each chapter a separate day itinerary,makes this an easy-to-use book for those who want to avoid the tour buses and tourist traps. The Best of Britain's Countryside helps you find good food and lodging, while giving the reader tidbits on custom. Language and architecture.

Good maps are generous in this book, however to make The Best of Britain's Countryside an excellent book the weak b&w photos need to be replaced, as well as a better, more readable page layout that uses bullets and/or boxes that highlight the explanation of a various places would really help.

If you want to see another side, especially the countryside of England and you like to venture out on your own I have not found a better guide book to recommend than this.

Excellent Resource for Walking in Britain.......2000-06-14

I own all three book covering England - they are an excellent resource. I have many books on this topic but these are really the best. I'm very disappointed they are out of print - would love an updated version. The authors really do provide reliable recommendations for the best places/sites/hikes. Wish they would write about other countries - Italy, France and Switzerland.

Fabulous book--can't believe it's out of print.......1998-08-24

Thanksgiving time several years ago, my husband, two friends, our 12-month old son and I used this book to guide us on a walking trip in Northern England. We started in the Harrogate area, had a fabulous time on the walks. B&B recommendations were first rate. Bill and Gwen should update the book, if that's the impediment to keeping it in print!

Scottish Houses and Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life

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Good for basic info and easy research

Scottish Houses and Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life
Ian Gow
Manufacturer: Aurum Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1854104888

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It has been over 100 years since Country Life magazine began to commission leading architectural photographers to record the great country houses of the British Isles. This book features 20 of the most important and remarkable houses in Scotland from the archive.

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Good for basic info and easy research.......2000-03-27

With its informative details and beautiful pictures, this book would interest history and gardening buffs alike.

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Outstanding!
A visual display armchair readers will relish

Scotland: A Visual Journey

Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Portrait of Scotland

ASIN: 1840182512

Book Description

Douglas Corrance has been photographing Scotland for more than a quarter of a century. Now, in this superbly produced volume, he takes us on a visual tour of his native land, from the rugged peaks of the Highlands to the country's diverse cities, towns, and villages. The renowned photographer spent over a decade working for the Scottish Tourist Board, so it is not surprising to find in these pages a multitude of shots of the archetypal Scotland; however, Corrance skillfully manages to brings something new and surprising to every image. The result is a collection of striking photographs that will give readers a fresh understanding and clearer view of the many facets of Scotland's beauty.

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Outstanding!.......2007-10-19

This is a very lovely book on Scotland. I have always wanted to visit and this book allowed me to visit Scotland vicariously. The photography is terrific and makes you feel as if you were there yourself.

A visual display armchair readers will relish.......2001-05-18

Author Corrance has been photographing Scotland for more than a quarter of a century: in Scotland: A Visual Journey he provides almost two hundred color images of his photos, from people to places, creating a visual display armchair readers will relish.

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More astonishing art from Andy Goldsworthy
Stimulating Of The Mind

Arch
Andy Goldsworthy , and David Craig
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Tour the English countryside with artist Andy Goldsworthy and writer David Craig, as they trace an ancient drover's route from the sheep pastures of Thornhill, Scotland, to the old market town of Kirkby Lonsdale, England. Goldsworthy, whose natural sculptures are often made up of collections of carefully arranged rocks, has created a self-supporting arch that is assembled with about 30 stones and no mortar. As he and Craig travel the British countryside, they set up and photograph the red sandstone arch in a wide variety of locations. Some sites have changed little over the centuries--on a number of occasions they erect the sculpture in original sheep folds (corrals). In other cases, the arch marks the changing landscape, as in Shap, Cumbria, where it was assembled on a sidewalk across from a relatively new school building.

Documenting this exploration, Arch includes 35 beautiful photographs as well as a poetic day journal written by Craig describing the journey. Looking at the different sites where the arch stood and reading Craig's insight into the geography and history of the land provides a unique opportunity for readers to experience Goldsworthy's work and England's natural history in one sitting. --Loren E. Baldwin

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More astonishing art from Andy Goldsworthy.......2002-09-04

There may be more imaginative artists than Andy Goldsworthy, but I can't think of any who use natural materials in natural settings in such an astonishingly effective manner. In "Arch," Goldsworthy traces--through photographs and a sort of diary--the movement of a sandstone arch through the farmlands of southwestern Scotland (his own "home territory"). This simple arch--a sort of brick-red, roughly hewn curve--is set up and dismantled in all sorts of unlikely places, mostly sheepfolds, along the way. It is photographed and a small entry written about its placement in each particular place.

The very first photograph, in Dumfriesshire, shows the arch almost glowing with ruddy color as a threateningly black sky looms overhead. From there, we variously see the arch at the edge of a hauling company's parking lot; in a livestock feedlot; in the middle of a road; with one foot in a narrow stream and the other in a grassy field; and even, wittily, beneath another stone arch which forms the doorway into a barn.

In each setting, the arch almost speaks to us. It looks by turns completely at home and relaxed all the way up to shy and out of place. Goldsworthy's great achievement here is to imbue a simple and completely inanimate object with different moods and faces depending upon the setting. The arch becomes almost a Rohrschach test for the reader. Most interesting!

Stimulating Of The Mind.......2000-05-28

Andy's work is astonishing! He finds beauty and art in every corner of the outdoors. Each of his masterpiece's are unique and stimulating to the mind. I strongly suggest this book and others by him for education and pleasure. You will be amazed!

The Clans of Scotland: The History and Landscape of the Scottish Clans

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The Clans of Scotland: The History and Landscape of the Scottish Clans
Micheil MacDonald
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Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places and Landscape

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Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places and Landscape
David Munro , and Bruce Gittings
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Authoritative, comprehensive, and fully up-to-date, this outstanding encyclopedia contains more than 10,000 detailed entries on Scotland’s cities, towns and villages, mountains, lochs and rivers, visitor attractions, monuments, and historic sites. Each entry places its subject in historical, geographical, architectural, or environmental context, offering information for a wide variety of uses. Street plans are included for all of Scotland’s cities and many larger towns, highlighting places of interest, public buildings, and main routes. All the entries are cross-referenced to a full-color atlas of the country, providing a wealth of current cartographic detail. Edited by Dr. David Munro, Director of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and Bruce Gittings of the Department of Geography at Edinburgh University, Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places and Landscapes is a landmark work of reference.

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