The map shows the sites of Perths many major landmarks and historical sites, lost and surviving. A comprehensive gazetteer on the reverse gives details of the many sites of interest, with a brief history and many illustrations. The map also includes an inset of Scone, place of coronation of many Scottish kings.
John O'Connor (1913-2004), a romantic but also a realist, recorded old endangered things, high and low: churches, canals, barges, dilapidated barns and garden sheds.With a keen eye, sure hand and way with words, he drew, engraved, painted and described what he valued most around him.
Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America, both as an artist-craftsman and as a thinker. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient in the making of pots - and in evolving a philosophy of life - was a lodestar for many potters in the West. Beyond East and West, first published in 1978, is more ......
Photographs from The Historic New Orleans Collection
Louisiana Lens surveys 180 years of photographic encounters with one of Americas most evocative regions: from early daguerreotypes of New Orleans landmarks to haunting post-Civil War landscapes to born-digital photographs documenting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, in collaboration with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Eotvos Lorand University Momentum, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seals and Divine World Research Group, is organising a temporary exhibition aimed at presenting the heritage and culture of ancient Mesopotamia.
The Auspicious Time is a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earthshaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, ......
The British Infantry Section in the Second World War
Fighting to Kill explores the significance of infantry units for those who fought the Second World War. It describes the evolution of the infantry rifle section of the British Army and brings together the history of their weaponry, their small-unit tactics and the soldiers' personal experiences.
Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from disused railway stations to atmospheric concert halls. It's crossed boundaries and artistic disciplines, leapt over them, determinedly broken them down, to create unique ......
