A tale of two beautiful islands, Hindu Bali in the Indian Ocean, and French-Melanesian Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, in the South Pacific. A memoir of love and death that weaves between the contrasting cultures.
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
In this collection of humorous and poignant newspaper columns written for the Baltimore Sun and The News American over the last two decades, Michael Olesker captures the essence of Baltimorea big city with the heart of a small town. Here in the closing years of the 20th century is Baltimore, with all its unexpected triumphs, crushing troubles, ......
Lodestars Anthology: Pathways contains 14 of the best and most carefully selected paths and trails that we have traversed. This book explores and details those pathways, the people, the landscapes and the fascinating things we discovered along the way. The journeys we take have a start and an end point, but we, in this book, want to relish the ......
I don't compose pictures, I find them in the colors, patterns, and shadows of the trees in front of me. While I walk, I let my feelings well up in my consciousness. My feelings guide me to find what I'm seeing and feeling and distill it into a picture. A beloved and popular Illinois institution, The Morton Arboretum welcomes one million annual ......
In this first photography book on Lake George, award-winning photographer, Carl Heilman, has worked to capture the essence of the beauty and features of the lake, as well as the energy of life and activities that make Lake George one of the top tourist destinations in the country. While many visitors only see the lake in the splendor of the ......
AUSTRALIA’S TALLY of 8222 islands span the tropics to the sub-Antarctic. No other country on earth revels in a richer diversity of offshore habitats. Many are incomparable natural refuges. Travel around Australia discovering the best our islands have to offer.