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Fruits and seeds of Annonaceae: Morphology and its significance for classification (Studies in Annonaceae)
A. K. van Setten
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There is more than enough to keep you busy on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula — the resorts at Cancún and Cozumel, Mayan ruins, and a hopping nightlife. If you want a fun-filled vacation with endless entertainment, this friendly guide gives you all you need to plan the ultimate beach vacation to Cancún and the Yucatán:
- Water sports and other outdoor activities for the adventurous
- A listing of all the Yucatán’s beaches
- Tips for not looking (or acting) like a gringo
- Top myths and misconceptions about Mexico
- Side trips to Isla Mujeres and other great destinations
Like every For Dummies travel guide, Cancún and the Yucatán For Dummies includes:
- Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
- What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip
- The best restaurants and hotels for every budget
- Lots of detailed maps
Customer Reviews:
Great Resource for traveling.......2005-09-27
The book was well written and organized. It was easy to look up information about all different types of subjects. We used this book on our trip to Cancun and we maximized our adventures during our stay.
Jim Kerr
if your new to this part of the world you need this book.......2005-07-20
Found it to be a little out of date i.e. the toll roads are almost over US$18 to get from Cancun to Valladolid and only take cash! But, this book offers so much local knowledge that it is a necessity to someone new to the area.
The book is also a little weak when it comes to the ruins - only list 4 of them. So if you go to see and want to know more on the Maya ruins get a good map of the Yucatan and a book specializing on the ruins themselves.
Despite these minor issues, if you want to manage yourself and not go on one of the bus tours you need this book!!!
Worked for this dummy!.......2004-06-25
I've never been to Cancun before and had no idea where to start planning my trip. I bought this book because it promised to be an easy-to-use reference for the first time visitor. And that's exactly what I found. This guide covered more than I expected, with detailed information on Cozumel, Playa del Carman, and more. The authors obviously knew what they were talking about, as the savvy advice given in the book made my decisions easy to make!
I Also recommended: 'A Tourist in the Yucatan' fun thriller!
A Real How-To Manual For Mexico.......2004-06-01
I hadn't been to Cancun in twenty years and my traveling companion had never been, so we were looking for more than a book that outlined the location and services of area hotels. We wanted tips, how-to's, cautions, insider secrets and local recommendations. This book had them all. While it's true that the book highlights only the authors' picks for restuarants and hotels and can't be called a comprehensive hotel guide, it was invaluable in the information it lent regarding phones, transportation, money, fees and schedules, customs, activities and more. And when we finally got to Cancun and Cozumel, my companion and I were not only informed and prepared but delighted to find that virtually all of the information (both subjective and objective) was correct. The local restuarant we'd highlighted in the book turned out to be a word-of-mouth tradition in Cozumel. We chose our hotel based on the book's description of offshore snorkeling and found out it was widely known on the island for unrivaled aquatic beauty. True, I could've found much of this information by combing the Internet, but I didn't have to thanks to this book, which also includes any contact info you could ever need. We referred to it constantly while in Mexico and can't reccommend what we came to call "The Book" highly enough.
Truly for Dummies.......2004-02-02
I found this book to be unuseful. It talks too much about things that most people would know anyways. The book doesn't talk about many hotels. It's more or less a overview and doesn't pay attention to detail.
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The spectacular coastline of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula is a diverse playground where you can bask on pristine beaches, explore ancient ruins, play golf or tennis, go biking, snorkeling or scuba diving, do serious shopping, or escape to a secluded lagoon. With info on Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya, plus the nearby ruins, this friendly guide gives you the low down on:
- Everything from unique spa experiences to nature preserves and ecoparks
- Accommodations ranging from a luxury resort where guests can dabble in a Viking-clad kitchen or where rooms spread out through the jungle to a European-style inn that offers Spanish lessons or a peaceful beachside palapa (thatch-roofed) inn
- All kinds of dining options, including fresh seafood, regional specialties such as pork pibil, papadzules, and poc chuc, or Thai, Argentinean, or Italian cuisine
- Diving into the clear depths of the Yucatán cenotes (natural wells)
- Birding at Isla Contoy, with more than 70 species of birds as well as a host of marine and animal life
- The Panoramic Tower on Isla Mujeres. where you get a stunning view of the island and Cancun
- Day trips to the archeological sites at Tulum, Chichén Itzá, and Ek Balam
- The pedestrian-only Avenida 5 in Playa del Carmen that’s the hot social scene
- Night life, including live music venues, tequila bars, sports bars, cafes, and plenty of places where you can dance the night away
Like every For Dummies travel guide, Cancún & the Yucatán For Dummies, 3
rd Edition includes:
- Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
- What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip
- The best hotels and restaurants for every budget
- Handy Post-it® Flags to mark your favorite pages
Whether your idea of the perfect vacation is action, sun, and non-stop fun or an escape to a peaceful haven where life moves along in pure mañana mode, this guide will get you on your way with no problemo, amigo.
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Travel smart at www.dummies.com Explore Cancun the Yucatan the fun and easy way Incredible beach escapes and diverse attractions abound in Cancun Cozumel, the Yucatan and Riviera Maya. Destinations range from laid-back and rustic to lively and luxurious, and this friendly guide gets you off to a sunny start! Discover: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn't miss - and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages
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Only one travel guide this year!.......2006-09-01
Excellent resource for both first time or returning travelers. Easy to read, excellent overview of the area and history. Even though we vacation there often, we will be taking this book with us this winter.
Good but Lacking .......2006-08-29
Good Information but not great. I ordered this because I wanted the "inside" scoop on some hotels. i've been to mexico once and found this guide to be good for the beginner but not detailed. The main reason I bought this was to find out about 2 particular (4 star) hotels and the book didn't mention either of them...at all..not even on their maps! disappointing. I was hoping the book would detail all the restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions - it seemed it only listed some, not all. Like I said - good book to start with but lacks thorough-ness.
WORKED FOR THIS DUMMY!.......2005-08-05
I've never been to Cancun before and had no idea where to start planning my trip. I bought this book because it promised to be an easy-to-use reference for the first time visitor. And that's exactly what I found. This guide covered more than I expected, with detailed information on Cozumel, Playa del Carman, and more. The authors obviously knew what they were talking about, as the savvy advice given in the book made my decisions easy to make!
I Also recommended: "A Tourist In The Yucatan" cult classic thriller for the perfect beach read!
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Buildings: A Pictorial History of the Past One Thousand Years (Millennium)
Sue L. Hamilton
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To get started in architecture and design.......2006-06-16
this refers to the 1989 Penguin Edition-
Asa mechanical engineer in my late thirties I started to know what architecture was all about and its relation to design. It turns out that its not easy to have a comprehensive introduction to the theme. Fortunately, Through Amazon and its reviews and suggested I bought this wonderful book and I was captivated, not only by the perspective it gives on the architecs work, but also on the insight about design it provides.
A subjective essay on the subjective task of home-building.......2006-05-12
This book by the author of "Home: A Short History of an Idea" (1986) is a more subjective and less disciplined examination of that same topic. Professor Rybczynski uses his experience as an immigrant trying to "fit in" as a lens for looking at what in means to build ones own home. The skeleton of this story is the author's own decision to build a shed to which he can retreat on weekends (for more on weekends, read the author's "Waiting for the Weekend," 1991) and build a boat he can sail away in. At some point the shed becomes more of a barn and then, when he finally abandons his plan to build a boat, it becomes a permanent home for himself and his wife. For me, the book is less about architecture, the act or craft of building, and more about morphing and the undpredictable ways life unfolds. Taken in that vein, Rybczynski's story can be appreciated as a spiritual journey with many sidetrips and gentle awakenings. He is self-critical, but not self-deprecating. And he infuses his tale with enough humor to keep the reader interested without taxing credibility. I especially enjoyed his description of his wife, Shirley, who does some morphing of her own. At the beginning (when the couple was building a mere boathouse), she is little more than an extra pair of hands; when the couple decides to make the structure they have been building into their home, Shirley suddenly becomes a full-fledged "client," full of opinions and demands.
Although, Rybczynski describes several impressive architect conceived and built houses (such as Wright's Fallingwater and Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth house), it is the houses built by their owners that he most celebrates--Mark Twain's home in Hartford, Connecticutt, Sir Walter Scott's Abbotsford, Robert Lewis Stevenson's Vailima in Samoa, artists Carl and Karin Larsson's much documented Lilla Hyttnas in Sundborn, Sweden, and Carl Jung's home in Bollingen, Switzerland. "It is no coincidence," writes Rybczynski, "that Stevenson, Scott, Clemens, Larsson, Castrejon, and I were less than forty years old when we built our homes.... The process of building, for all of us, was a process of installing ourselves in a place, of establishing a spot where it would be safe to dream. We had to be old enough to recognize the particularity--and limits--of our dreams, but not too old to believe in them....My house had begun with the dream of a boat. The dream had run aground--I was now rooted in place." (pp. 190, 193)
BLURRY WRITING.......2005-08-22
I have to agree with another reviewer this book has little to do with home building and is much adieu about nothing. In the end I was a little digusted at what got built....but then again what is beautiful?
I am a fan of the author and this is my 3rd read by him. I do have to warn potential readers that sometimes this book rambles on about topics most readers would have VERY little interest in. On the flip side the book does contain passages that are highly entertaining. Its about 50/50
This is a book that comes in and out of focus, a style of writing I believe the author enjoys. I guess in order to get books out in the marketplace as often as Witold does he must resort to digressing on just about any topic that pops into his mind.
With that said, he is an intellect...he's well traveled and leads what I believe to be a pretty interesting life.
This is an average book, I was expecting a bit more about home building and a bit less esoteric rhetoric. But then again, nothing churns out books better than rambling away.
Holy Digression!.......2004-01-03
This book did not come close to meeting my expectations. Of the 200 pages in this book, scarcely 30 actually pertain to the author's house building experience. It appears "the Most Beautiful House" subject was merely a excuse to ramble from one topic to another. One minute he is talking about animal sacrifices & liver divining, the next he is discussing the verb "to habit". I was sorely disappointed and struggle to find any redeeming quality in this work. Readers be warned that this book is a motley crew of diatribes on topics having little to do with The Most Beautiful House in the World.
See Under: Function and Form.......2001-07-14
This book, an extension in action of the literal expressed in the earlier historic study "Home," takes notion to application in the form of constructing a boat house. Interwoven into the text is an historic overview -albeit briefly- of seventeenth to twentieth century architecture (mies, le corbisier, wright), the elements, motifs, and functional aspects associated with the broader field. Along the way one has the sense the author is being contemplative (although not digressive) in the approach toward considering all phasesof development; a sometimes apt metaphor for the arrival at both the functional and practical. The book itself is well arranged, the letterhead holding sturdy upon the page. It is compact, holds well in the hand and is highly accessible: one could easily read in one sitting. Of interest for anyone engaged in projects in addition to their immediate structure.
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There are plenty of entertaining stories written about the public mishaps and accomplishments of dogs; they are social animals and can play highly public roles in everything from television sitcoms to real-life emergency situations. The cat, as feline admirers will not hesitate to agree, is more select in its level of tolerance for lowly humans, and thus few true stories are told that revolve around cats in public life. And then there's Henrietta.
Christopher Wren belonged to Henrietta the cat, and Christopher Wren travels far and wide in his work as a foreign news correspondent. Of course Henrietta insisted on being brought along to Moscow, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, and all the other cities the Wrens visited. And of course Henrietta got into all sorts of scrapes--cats can cause enough trouble right in their own living rooms! The Cat Who Covered the World is a tremendously entertaining memoir and travelogue, covering 17 years in the life of a busy cat and her accommodating family. Wherever she went, she charmed, and tales of flight attendants bestowing free portions of salmon mousse and Italian taxi drivers blowing kisses into her cage while ignoring the traffic are intertwined with more typical cat stories of sudden escapes into fields, food stealing, and incessant yowling at inappropriate times. For this book, Wren sets aside his investigations and simply enjoys, culling quotes about cats from Mark Twain, Christopher Smart, Deng Xiaoping, and Herodotus for a bit of added depth. His conclusion about the cat/journalist relationship will have all feline fanciers smiling in agreement: "I have met enough celebrity journalists whose smug self-importance might have been ameliorated or corrected altogether by the ownership of a couple of cats." --Jill Lightner
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Henrietta was an ordinary New York City cat until she ventured overseas with foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren and his wife and children. Over seventeen years and tens of thousands of miles, she became a plucky, indispensable companion for the reporter as he covered world events in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa, and Johannesburg.
Wren's often hilarious and sometimes poignant account of an American family's adventures crisscrossing the globe shows them coping with chaos in faraway places -- always with the help of their ever-resourceful feline. The result is a charming tale about a spunky, curious pet who earned the right to be ranked among the world's most widely traveled cats.
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Adventures of Harriet.......2005-10-09
An absolutely delightful book. I enjoyed it so much, I passed it on to cat lover friends and have just received an e-mail telling me how much they enjoyed it.
one of the wittiest most touching books.......2004-03-08
I love this book , by Christopher Wren about his beloved cat Henreitta and their travled together as a news correspondent around the globe. It's a must read for any cat lover. It's funny in many parts, moving , touching and sad as well.
I'd recomend it to anyone. It's am enjoyable read for adult and children as well. For anyone who lvoes there feline baby very much this is the book for you.
One cat that needs frequent flyer miles.......2003-12-01
Being a cat lover, I've read a few books about the mischievous trouble making creatures. My personal favorite is The Cat Who Covered the World by Christopher S. Wren. Wren, being a writer for the New York Times, travels the world with his family, including the cat.
From Cairo, to Paris, to Beijing, there's not a place Henrietta, the cat, hasn't been. Henrietta is the most amazing cat I've ever heard of. She has very prototype catlike qualities, intelligent, resourceful, cunning, just to name a few. She's like super cat. Her qualities as I've just listed, are doubled compared to any normal cat. She even has a refined taste; she'll only eat certain kinds of fish and other meats, not like other cats that just eat whatever is in front of them.
Wren's style of writing is very interesting. He's very descriptive, and seems to know exactly what word would fit where. It seems like he's memorized the dictionary. He uses a lot of bigger words that I couldn't even figure out from context, for example the word "eschatological", which has some thing to do with death and what happens after. I've never heard of that word in my life. You definitely need to be an experienced reader to read this. I love how he describes the actions of the cat, and the cat herself. Everything he says about her is catlike and very descriptive, giving people a clear picture in their minds.
People can learn things from this book. Like how people in different countries treat cats, and their opinions and superstitions about them. One example of superstitions would be that I learned that some people in China think cat's eyes have magical features. I now know more about customs of people in different countries and their views on Americans and reporters.
One thing the Wren's had to consistently go through were baggage checks and customs every time they entered a new country. This seemed to be a problem for Henrietta. In some countries they made her visit a vet and were very suspicious about her having foreign diseases. The veterinarians at these places would poke and prod at her as if she was a stuffed animal. In other places they would love her to death and let her go through without a problem.
Wren adds a sense of humor to his book as well. I think that's one thing that made it so captivating. Knowing the behavior of cats is an important thing to have stored in the brain to understand some of the humor. If people have never owned a cat they may not understand why something would be funny. Such as in one part of the book he has the schedule of Henrietta in the morning. It talks about what a cat does in everyday life. People can't possibly understand the humor of the cat's schedule unless they've lived with a cat or an animal with the same kind of behavior.
Overall Wren did a great job on this book. I would recommend The Cat Who Covered the World to any cat lover or cat owner. I only wish more people would write books like this about their cats.
Good book for cat lovers..........2003-03-26
When my local bookclub picked this book for our monthly selection, I wasn't sure what to think. I mean, how much discussion can be generated by a cat book? Thankfully I am a die-hard cat fan, so at least I'll have some funny cat stories to share.
The Cat Who Covered the World tells the true of story of New York Times Foreign Correspondent (and author), Christopher Wren, as he travels around the world with the family cat in tow. Not a born cat-lover, Chris took his time warming up to Henrietta. Eventually, however, she became an integral part of the family. And when Chris was dispatched to his first overseas assignment, Henrietta was sure to tag along. This book paints a sweet picture of a man just doing his job and the cat who made it bearable for 18 years.
As for the book itself, it's cute. The writing is for the most part simple, but I did tend to get a bit confused when the author reminisces about certain political happenings in the countries he lived in. If you're not up on your foreign history, be forewarned! However, the story as a whole is good; the cat, Henrietta, is a very endearing and sweet character, and I see much of her in my own two cats; and the different countries discussed will allow the reader to do some armchair traveling of their own. I recommend this book as a quick weekend read, but I believe it was written solely for the cat lover. All others may not find it as endearing or sweet, or may not relate to the relationship between author and family pet.
An Amazing Tale.......2002-10-06
Wren's story nicely captures the hectic pace of his family's life and of the often exotic atmosphere of the far-flung places to which Wren's work as a journalist took them, along with their apparently indestructable cat Henrietta. Wren's description of the exhausting, time-consuming and frustrating paperwork that goes with the territory of traveling around the world with a cat is mind-boggling. Because the family willingly took on this added burden in order to keep Henrietta with them, it's clear that they loved her dearly and that she was without doubt an important member of the family. I cheered their efforts on her behalf (even though I look askance at allowing a cat to roam busy city streets or tropical landscapes where predators may lurk), but I would have liked to have read more about personal interaction between Henrietta and the family. We're told she curls up on the daughter's bed at night. But we don't hear her purr, we don't see her lick the girl's cheek or nuzzle her neck. Henrietta certainly comes off as independent, resourceful and resilient and I got a kick out of her, but with a little more detailed description of her interaction with the family, she would have seemed like a more loveable and huggable cat.
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“An enchanting work, unlike any other gardening book in existence.”—Stanley Kunitz, New York Times Book Review
“As she chronicles her various discoveries in the market bulletins, Lawrence also reveals a good bit that is fresh and delicate in American life. . . . Anyone who has ever read Elizabeth Lawrence will expect an enchanting two hours from her, and will find it.”—Henry Mitchell, Washington Post Book World
Lawrence’s book is a celebration of life in all its diversity, and life, she makes us feel, is the main event.”—Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
“Gardening for Love is a collection of Elizabeth Lawrence’s writings centered around her 40-year correspondence with the avid gardeners—of rural Mississippi, the Carolinas, Georgia, and other states—who share their seeds and plants by ads in bulletins selling everything from moonvines to puppies.
“As garden writer Allen Lacy points out in his eloquent introduction, Lawrence was far more than just a regional writer. Just as Eudora Welty—the friend who first interested Elizabeth Lawrence in the Mississippi Market Bulletin— has the voice and feel of her native Jackson, Mississippi, so Lawrence has an intimate knowledge of her home soil.
“But her scope, just like Welty’s, stretches far and deep, reaching into the hearts of not only gardeners, but any reader fascinated with the comings and goings of the human race. . . . There’s a sense of comfort in this book, in the eternity of tending plants that stretch back through the centuries.”—Anne Raver, Newsday
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New migrants to North Carolina read this book..........2000-05-07
I don't live in NC anymore, but when I did, Miss Lawrence wrote a garden column and was known all over the state by garden club members like my mom who met her at least once. We lived in Guilford County which is part of the Greensboro-High Point MSA these days and she lived in Raleigh to the east, and then Charlotte to the south. Anyway, she understood what would and wouldn't work in the Zone 7 garden. (I still live in Zone 7 -- in Virginia).
Miss Lawrence was the first writer to educate gardeners in our circles about the differences in growing regions. She corresponded with folks in other places and shared information about what was happening in their gardens with her column readers. She also informed readers about information she gleaned from the Market Bulletins. These bulletins were posted by folks who had something to offer or wanted something --gardenwise. The only expense involved much of the time was postage.
This book is a fascinating compilation of articles Miss Lawrence wrote about the Market Bulletins. The sections are filled with newsy notes and humor, and makes one feel as if she is hanging over the garden gate getting the latest news from a neighbor up the road. Great bed time reading.
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Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (China Studies, Vol. 1)
Daria Berg
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As if under the satirical magnifying glass, the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, an anonymous traditional Chinese novel, portrays local society and provincial life in seventeenth-century China in comic and grotesque close-up. A dystopian satire, the novel provides fascinating insights into the popular culture and wild imagination of men and women in late imperial China.
Using an array of sources—fiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers—Carnival in China develops a style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. Through their eyes, we gain access to their desires, dreams, fears and nightmares.
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Showcasing the work of the world’s top nature photographers, this lavish, large-format volume presents the 100 best images submitted to Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the largest, most prestigious wildlife photography competition in the world. Selected from 20,000 images and representing 60 countries, the pictures range from plants to endangered animals, underwater life to landscapes—all dramatically displaying the beauty and variety of the natural world. Featuring behind-the-scenes information and photographic details for each image, this is a magnificent volume for all lovers of wildlife and fine photography.
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They just keep getting better.......2007-01-24
I own all sixteen of this series. I have been sold on them since I found Portfolio 7 while browsing a bookstore some years ago and was inspired to buy all the older copies and every one since. Amazon (UK) has been especially helpful in helping me source the early publications.
The Photography is magnificent, the production and presentation first class. There is no other Wildlife Photography publication that comes close to being as satisfying as this one.
I recommend it highly.
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Light on the Earth is the finest collection of nature photographs ever published. Featuring 180 images by some of the world’s top photographers, it represents the winning and commended entries from 20 years of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. Selected from thousands of images and representing many countries, the pictures range from plants to endangered animals, underwater life to landscapes—all dramatically displaying the beauty and variety of the natural world. Featuring background information and photographic details for each image, this is a magnificent, best-of-the-best collection for lovers of wildlife and fine photography.
Customer Reviews:
Great.......2007-04-05
Obviously, with a collection of the top photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, it's got to be good. Many photographers who have been published in the BBC series are lesser-known, and sometimes one-hit-wonders. These images show why it takes more than a camera and a sponsor to create a stunning image. Gone are the static portraits and cluttered landscapes. These images are some of the best efforts from some of the best talents - not just showing nature, but conveying it with feeling.
exquisite images.......2006-12-17
The images in LIght on Earth are the best of the best from the BBC's annual wildlife photography competition. Anyone can enter the contest, and the images that come out of it are amazing. The editorial staff have a knack for picking emotionally powerful, visually stunning images that weave together like a complex tapestry- to have the best of the images is one place is priceless.
I would also recommend checking out the actual competition, which can be viewed online, to see some of the ones that got away.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio One
Peter Wilkinson
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Each volume contains all the winning and commended entries from the annual British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition--from the best international photographers.
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Showcasing the work of the world’s top nature photographers, this lavish, large-format volume presents the 100 best images submitted to Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the largest, most prestigious wildlife photography competition in the world. Selected from 20,000 images and representing 60 countries, the pictures range from plants to endangered animals, underwater life to landscapes—all dramatically displaying the beauty and variety of the natural world. Featuring behind-the-scenes information and photographic details for each image, this is a magnificent volume for all lovers of wildlife and fine photography.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 11
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Beautiful Pictures without Insights.......2004-06-08
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual publication of the BBC. It includes the winning pictures from the BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, which is sponsored by the Natural History Museum (of London), BBC Wildlife Magazine and BG Group.
Thousands of photographs are submitted by wildlife photographers from all over the world, from which a panel of distinguished judges selects winners, runners-up and commended pictures, as well as one overall winner. The categories include various classes like animal behavior, composition and form, and animal portraits. Those familiar with nature photographers will recognize many of the competitors' names, like Thomas Mangelsen, Arthur Morris, Patricio Robles Gil and Norbert Wu.
Each photographer includes a short comment about the circumstances of the picture's capture. Photographer-readers will like the fact that technical data is provided for each photo. Almost every one of the pictures is quite beautiful and some are quite astounding. Although I was quite familiar with Joe McDonald's picture of a lion killing a buffalo, I still shuddered when I saw the lion's death grip and the terror in the buffalo's eyes. Andy Rouse's picture of a roe deer buck peering at us from a field of chest high red flowers is lovely.
Each of the pictures in the volume can stand by itself as a worthy photo. My problem is that the pictures, by the nature of the contest, don't hang together as a book. Photographs in a book on a single subject or by a single photographer have a synergistic effect. We learn more about the animal or the photographer's vision than any one picture can convey. That is totally lacking in this book, with the exception of the short portfolio by Vincent Munier that won the award for photographers aged 26 years or under.
People who love wildlife pictures will not be disappointed by this book. On the other hand, they may want to consider subscribing to a magazine like "Nature's Best", published quarterly by the Nature's Best Foundation. There is a contest issue with pictures by many of the same photographers as enter the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, AND the three other issues contain extensive portfolios by a individual photographers, usually on a single subject.
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The 14th portfolio from the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is a collectable book for wildlife enthusiasts and fans of world-class photography alike. This new collection represents the best images taken by top nature photographers around the world that have been submitted to the 2004 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Featuring more than 100 unforgettable pictures—covering subjects such as plants, endangered animals, underwater life, and landscapes—that display the beauty of the natural world. Selected from more than 19,000 entries, representing at least 60 countries, these images will comprise the winning and commended pictures from the world's largest and most prestigious wildlife photography competition.
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- Outstanding Photography, Educational and Entertaining
- Authors Extra Comments
- Beautiful photographs; Snobby author
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Life in the Wild: A Photographer's Year
Andy Rouse
Manufacturer: Photographers' Institute Press
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One of the best at the art of wildlife photography presents a year of his work in an informative and visually remarkable diary. From January's visit to India (and its magnificent tigers) to March's Arctic journey (where a sleeping polar cub lies atop mama bear) to December's African safari (leopards, jackals, hyenas), each month includes valuable information on planning a trip, packing equipment, and taking the actual shot. Almost every page features breathtaking examples of the author's pictures, and special boxed tips focus on shooting in low-light, selecting film stock, capturing silhouettes, and more. Digital cameras, underwater photography, macro lenses, coping with weather and its effects, and producing scans: it's all here, along with advice on photographing "local wildlife," because even when you're home, the fun can continue.
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Outstanding Photography, Educational and Entertaining.......2004-06-29
Professional UK photographer Andy Rouse is well known for his outstanding nature photographs, and this book is filled cover-to-cover with them. The accompanying text is informative, including plenty of tips and insight on how the author captured the images. Andy's witty anecdotal style is a pleasant departure from most other books of the genre, making Life in the Wild a thoroughly enjoyable book to read as well.
Highly recommended!
Authors Extra Comments.......2004-06-29
HI, I just wanted to put my side of a review that I just read from a US reader. All of my comments in the book are tongue in cheek and have generally been read that way by the thousands of photographers that have enjoyed this book in Europe. If they aren't then it is solely down to our difference in humour between the US and Europe. I do not have a negative view of other photographers, far from it in fact, like I said everything has to be taken tongue in cheek. So I really hope that you enjoy LIfe in the Wild and that it makes you laugh, as that is it's intention - to lighten a subject that is often far too serious.
Beautiful photographs; Snobby author.......2004-05-29
This book features beautiful photographs, including both those taken on Rouse's home turf (England) and others taken in locales ranging from Brazil to Madagascar. Each chapter describes one month of a typical year in Rouse's life, focusing one or two photography projects Rouse tackled that month.
Photographers will get some good tips by reading this book, although note that at the time Rouse wrote this book he was almost exclusively a film photographer rather than digital. Also, as the book went on the author became more involved in medium format photography and began to leave 35mm behind.
The fly in the ointment is Rouse's own personality. His comments towards the other photographers he meets along the way are snide, sneering, and condescending. This is true whether the other photographers are snapshooters, ecotourists, advanced amateurs, semi-pros or professionals.
Thus, in his international travels Rouse is hampered by other photographers in India, but in the end he wins because he was riding on the fastest elephant. On a boat trip to the Farne Islands he stays dry because (he thinks) the captain selected the best seat for him.
To cite one example of Rouse's annoying egotism, in South Africa he encounters a group of ecotourists, and is irritated at them because they arrived at a leopard kill first. "We nicknamed them brainlackers, but only in private, as they always gave us nice chocolate biscuits for elevenses."
In short, I enjoyed the pictures, and did read the book through to the end. I did find the author's egotism to be annoying, however.
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Each volume contains all the winning and commended entries from the annual British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition--from the best international photographers.
Book Description
Each volume contains all the winning and commended entries from the annual British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition--from the best international photographers.
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Wildlife Photographer portfolio 12.......2003-11-05
Having just been to our museum to see these actual photographs framed and on display, I knew I wanted to have a record of my visit -- and this book was the perfect answer. I wasn't disappointed! Everything I saw at the museum is contained within this marvellous book along with all of the information photographers would want to know. The pictures are reproduced on high quality glossy paper stock and I share the book with friends who are equally impressed. This is a book you will want to have on display on your coffee table for all to see.
Oh -- and by the way -- did I say I really liked this book?
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