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Most Beautiful Towns and Villages of the American Southwest by Joan Tapper
Category: Travel | Series: The Most Beautiful...
The American Southwest is a region of energetic growth and multicultural vitality. This title includes photography and commentaries that celebrate 30 special communities in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, accompanied by photographic essays on Route 66, ghost towns, Native American commun ...Show more
Picture Perfect English Villages (The Most Beautiful series) by James Bentley
Category: Photography | Series: The Most Beautiful...
Villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The village inn and the local farm, great houses, humble cottages and beautiful country gardens speak of a way of life that has developed peacefully since Anglo-Saxon times. A few days spent in England's idyllic villages offers urban dwellers and foreign ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Country Towns of England by Hugh Palmer
Category: Architecture | Series: The Most Beautiful...
An inspirational tour and celebration of some of the most attractive small towns in the English countryside. Complementing the best-selling "The Most Beautiful Villages of England," Hugh Palmer has produced a stunning sequence of images of those ancient towns in which the true heart of England lies. A ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Country Towns of Tuscany by James Bentley
Category: Architecture | Series: The\Most Beautiful Villages Ser.
Twenty of the most beautiful towns in Tuscany are featured in this volume. Travelling from north to south, it describes, first the towns with substantial Etruscan and Romanesque features, then the walled towns of central Tuscany, followed by the coastal and thermal communities of the south.
The Most Beautiful Villages of Brittany by James Bentley (photography Hugh Palmer)
Category: Architecture | Series: The\Most Beautiful Villages Ser.
A visual and verbal account of 31 villages and islands in one of Europe's most popular tourist spots. The villages are drawn from the four departments of modern-day Brittany: Finistere, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine and Cotes-d'Armor. Brittany is very distinct from the rest of France. It is a place of drama ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of England by James Bentley
Category: Travel | Series: The Most Beautiful...
Villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The village inn and the local farm, great houses, humble cottages and beautiful country gardens speak of a way of life that has developed peacefully since Anglo-Saxon times. A few days spent in England's idyllic villages offers urban dwellers and foreign ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of England by James Bentley; Hugh Palmer
Category: Travel | Series: The\Most Beautiful Villages Ser.
Grouped by area and subdivided by county--northern, midland, eastern, southern, and western--this is a spectacular celebration of England's picture perfect villages. 285 color photographs.
The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece and the Greek Islands by Mark Ottaway
Category: Travel Photography | Series: The Most Beautiful...
From the green, terracotta and ochre of the Ionian Islands in the west, to the brilliant blue and white of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands present a picture of incomparable beauty. The variety of village life and building springs from a multitude of histories and influences, often acc ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland by Christopher Fitz-Simon
Category: Fiction | Series: The Most Beautiful...
Clusters of white cottages huddled between hills of an unbelievably rich green, villages of a single street, dazzling in their array of colour washes and picturesque shop-fronts such are the villages of Ireland, which to this day are living, working communities. The most beautiful of these villages are ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence by Michael Jacobs
Category: Travel | Series: The Most Beautiful...
Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. This title features photographs and accounts of the most beautiful villages of Provence such as Vaucluse and the Bouches-du-Rhone and more.
The Most Beautiful Villages of Spain by Hugh Palmer
Category: Travel | Series: The Most Beautiful...
Far from the beaches of Spain's Mediterranean coast, there lies a land of quiet backwaters seemingly untouched by time - villages characterized by traditional architecture and dramatic natural settings. Profiles of over 30 village gems make up the four main sections of this book.
The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany by James Bentley
Category: Travel | Series: The Most Beautiful...
Features thirty-six villages from all over Tuscany from those clustered around the great cities of Lucca and Florence, which produce some of the finest olive oil and are home to some of the world's greatest works of art, to the Chianti region and the valley of the Orcia, devoted to the cultivation of ar ...Show more