This is a book with all the color and rhythm of the seasons of New England. Timeless and yet personal, universal and yet so local you recognize your neighbors, can count the logs in their woodpile, smell the smoke from chimneys on a sunny cold autumn day and savor the taste of last summer’s raspberries.
Lavishly illustrated, fact-filled, in a new enhanced paperback edition, The Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration commemorates the gift of the trees from Japan to our Nation’s capital in 1912, one hundred years ago. Extensive photographs and illustrations complement intriguing stories of how the Japanese cherry blossom trees came to be planted around the tidal basin and the eventual development of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
Saint Petersburg is the first guidebook exclusively devoted to the lesser-known museums in the city. It will tell you what they are, where they are, when they are open, and what you can expect to find in them.
The only surviving of the seven ancient wonders of the world, the Pyramids and Sphinx are the most familiar of all archaeological sites. Despite their popularity, there are no other guides that focus on the Giza plateau and its monuments and how they evolved.
Part guide, part meditation, part history, this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book sets the moral scene in which we must commemorate the lives of those who died for their country in war.
Neon Mesa: Wonders of the Southwest is a stunning photographic record of the vernacular landscape of the American Southwest – the roadside landscape littered with the signs and relics, sights and debris, of countless anonymous road trips.
A lively and informative illustrated guide, Gastronomie! is for those interested in what they eat, what its origins are, and where, in France, they can find out more about it
The Boston Freedom Trail is America’s premier Heritage Trail. Its sixteen sites of national historical interest are lovingly illustrated in delicate watercolors and accompanied by historical description by the staff of the Freedom Trail Foundation.
Catherine the Great’s seizure of power remains one of the most dramatic and iconic episodes in Russian history. Oranienbaum, the grandest baroque palace complex to be built in Russia during the 18th century.