park retreat of the west (11 Ergebnisse)

PARK, No-Yong. RETREAT OF THE WEST. NY: Hale, Cushman & Flint, Inc., [1937]. 8vo., orange cloth stamped in black. First Edition. Signed by Park on the front endpaper in English and Chinese. Very Good (small ding top edge & tiny tear head of spine, two very light stains front cover; contents clean & tight). $10.00.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Set in a picturesque Cotswold village, The Telephone Box Library is an uplifting story about fresh starts and new beginnings, by bestselling author of The Village Green Bookshop, Rachael Lucas. 'A delightful slice of escapism tied up with a gorgeous, romantic ribbon' - Cathy Bramley, author of A Vintage Summer. The Cotswolds: the perfect retreat for a stressed-out teacher. And Lucy has found just the right cottage for a bargain rent. All she has to do is keep an eye on Bunty, her extremely feisty ninety-something neighbour . . . With her West Highland terrier Hamish at her side, Lucy plans to relax and read up on the women of nearby Bletchley Park. But the villagers of Little Maudley have other ideas, and she finds herself caught up in the campaign to turn a dilapidated telephone box into a volunteer-run library. Along the way, she makes friends with treehouse designer Sam, and finds herself falling for the charms of village life. And it seems Bunty has a special connection to Bletchley Park and the telephone box one that she's kept secret for decades . . . 'I loved it! Intrigue, romance, and utterly compelling' Alex Brown, author of A Postcard from Italy. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Boston [1937], Hale. Orange cloth, very good, 336p., index, bibliography. Written by a Korean-American & Harvard Phd. 15 x 22 cm. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FIRST EDITION Excellent expository essay, addressing the tutelage of the West, Attila of the Huns, the Mongol Conquerors, coming of the white man: early missionaries, Nestorians & Jesuits. The "Opium War" and advance of the west, Taiping Rebellion, Franco-Chinese War. The retreat of the west, advance of the Russo-Japanese War, World War, ascent of Japan. Yellow man's invasion of Europe, exculsion of orientials in America and Soviet Russia's role in Asia. Manchurian crisis, conque- st of Manchuria, attack on Shanghai, Sino-Japanese conflict, eclipse of the Western empires in Eastern Asia. * An superb primary resource. The signed copy is in both Chinese characters and English presentation and English. *.

Boston [1937], Hale. Orange cloth, very good, 336p., index, bibliography. Written by a Korean-American & Harvard Phd. dust jacket, 15 x 22 cm. THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FIRST EDITION Excellent expository essay, addressing the tutelage of the West, Attila of the Huns, the Mongol Conquerors, coming of the white man: early missionaries, Nestorians & Jesuits. The "Opium War" and advance of the west, Taiping Rebellion, Franco-Chinese War. The retreat of the west, advance of the Russo-Japanese War, World War, ascent of Japan. Yellow man's invasion of Europe, exculsion of orientials in America and Soviet Russia's role in Asia. Manchurian crisis, conque- st of Manchuria, attack on Shanghai, Sino-Japanese conflict, eclipse of the Western empires in Eastern Asia. * An superb primary resource. The signed copy is in both Chinese characters and English presentation and English. *.

A collection of 230 vernacular photographs recording a couple's trip to Beijing, Jinan, and Qingdao a decade after the abdication of the last Qing emperor. Arranged chronologically, the album combines landscape and architectural views with candid shots of the travellers and the people they met. The appearance of many easily identifiable landmarks more than compensates for a lack of captions. The travellers begin their holiday in Beijing, recently the site of the May Fourth demonstrations. The first 35 images capture the serenity of the Summer Palace, once an imperial retreat, with images showing the East Palace Gate and the exterior Hall of Joyful Longevity. The visitors strike jaunty individual poses on a stone lion and ride regally on the back of a bronze deer statue. The lady is captured from a distance on a balcony overlooking the Kunming Lake, the largest body of water in the palace complex, with the famous 17-arch bridge visible in the background. Like many before them, these travellers are drawn to such architectural wonders as the Glowing Clouds and Holy Land Archway, as well as the full-size marble boat restored by the Empress Cixi in the 19th century using funds allocated for outfitting a real navy. Several vistas of the lake show its solitude and remoteness - qualities accentuated by the palace's transition in 1914 from a working royal residence into a publicly accessible monument to China's imperial past. Until 1924, the Forbidden City remained the private residence of the last emperor, Pu Yi, and this album thus contains only a few images taken in the accessible outer court. The travellers find more freedom, however, in nearby Beihai Park, climbing up to the imposing White Pagoda and snapping several views of Beijing from on high. Also captured here are two soldiers on duty by one of the bridge archways, as well as the classic view of the pagoda looming over the park's picturesque lake. China's rapidly growing network of railway lines afforded travellers conveniences unknown even a couple of decades before. The visitors record their journey on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou line, the first stretch of railway built by the Chinese government rather than foreign investors, alighting near Nankou. There, the lady poses in a sedan chair and later with three young children fascinated by a camera held by one of the couple's acquaintances. Visiting the Ming tombs affords many opportunities to photograph and be photographed with the famous stone animal sculptures, while in one image the lady lies comfortably in a tree. Back on the train, they travel to the Great Wall near Badaling and Qinglongqiao. A dozen pictures taken on the wall show the brickwork in a state of disrepair, as was common with sections of the wall by this time, and the travellers take refreshments on a level section with some local children for company. A well-earned rest on the return train refreshes them for a visit to the Jade Peak Pagoda on Jade Spring Hill, today the site of residences for top political leaders, with the camera capturing several nice landscape views of the pagoda and a temple desecrated inside. Following further excursions to the unmissable Temple of Heaven and the Cishou Pagoda, they follow the steel rails to Jinan, admiring the Yangtze River and waterfront industries in the company of local, perhaps warlord, troops. The holiday ends in the Japan-controlled coastal resort of Qingdao, its station platform teeming with adult and child passengers and its seafront peppered with colonial architecture including the Grand Hotel. The final photographs commemorate time spent at the beach and climbing a nearby mountain (most likely Laoshan) - the relaxing denouement to a holiday of considerable excitement. Landscape folio (260 x 335 mm). Original brown pebble-grain leatherette tied with brown chord through punch holes, front cover lettered in gilt within blind frame, covers lined with black moiré-patterned cloth, 52 black card leaves with 230 gelatin silver photographs (each c. 75 x 130 mm) mounted with silver photo corners, first blank with pencilled title "China 1920". With 3 gelatin silver photographs (63 x 40 mm) loosely inserted. 2 photographs no longer present. Photographs clear, most with silver mirroring and a few with corners lifting, image loose from its mount and another partially split vertically, a few leaves beginning to split at gutter, couple of expertly repaired tears: a very good example.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This revised edition describes the transformation of the environment and landscape of Western Sørkapp Land based on research data collected by Jagiellonian University scientific expeditions in the period 1980-1986 and in 2008. It also outlines potential directions of the transformation of Western Sørkapp Land.Western Sørkapp Land has been experiencing dramatic natural changes such as glacial recession, coastline retreat, emergence of new landforms and Quaternary deposits, as well as changes in the water drainage and network due to global warming. Western Sørkapp Land is a very remote and diverse region, which is representative of the European Arctic. The establishment of South Spitsbergen National Park has led to a regeneration of the local reindeer herd, which has caused overgrazing of the local tundra resulting in altered plant communities and soil erosion. They have also destroyed numerous bird nests. The transformation of Western Sørkapp Land is set to continue.

Adventure Publications, 1987, in-4, cart. noir ill. d'un motif doré, gardes ill., 530 pp. (L.219) The explorer's guide to the Island Continent. Plus de 500 photographies en couleurs permettent de tout connaître lors d'un voyage en Australie. Ci-dessous la liste des sujets traités : Sydney - New South Wales - Melbourne - Victoria - Brisbane - Queensland - Adelaide - South Australia - Perth - Western Australia - Hobart - Tasmania - Darwin - Northern Territory - Canberra and the Australian, Capital Territory - In Kakadu, the Dreamtime, Goes on - A Revolution in food Paradise - Tasmanians, a Tough but Generous Breed - The World's Longest Mail, Run - The Coral Empire - Outback Australia - Crocodiles - The Red Centre - The Australian Wilderness - Aboriginal Art - Adventures - Activity Lodges and Centres - Air Tours - Casinos - Executive and Country Retreats - Farm and Station Holidays - Historic Houses and Inns - Islands - National parks - National Trust - Railway journeys - Wine country - Ballooning - Bicycling - Boat Charter and Hire - Boating cruises - Buslwalking - Camel trekking - Canoeing, Kayaking and rafting - Diving and Snorkelling - Fishing - Golf - Horse Riding - Motoring-Campervans - Motoring-Four-wheed-drive - Rockelimbing - Skiing - Calendar of Events - State tourism information-Centres. Texte en anglais.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 224 pages. Features: Novel take for a creative couple in Beverly Hills; Spinning the Bahamian colonial cottage of old into a design of its own place and time; Author Barbara Goldsmith's Park Avenue home; The 98-room Carolands is finally a home; The art of deco in Florida - invoking the jazz age in a dramatically redesigned Palm Beach residence; Neoclassical edge for an Austrian retreat; Modernizing a waterfront home in Greenwich, Connecticut; Jewels on the go; Outside the box in Vancouver, BC; Carleton Varney gives his son's New York apartment an infusion of color; A West Palm beach pool and theatre make it worth staying home to watch a movie. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whether the setting is a Parisian-inspired Neoclassical Brooklyn townhouse, an elegant Central Park West penthouse, or a modern retreat in the Hudson Valley, Kathryn Scott is a designer whose disciplined eye results in interiors praised for their beauty and minimalism, as well as their artisanal details. Readers who responded to Nancy Braithwaite's aesthetic will love Creating Beauty.The first book from acclaimed Brooklyn-based interior designer, Kathryn Scott, whose handcrafted interiors evoke a sense of serenity, harmony, and simplicity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rusting antiaircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park - more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be seen from Europe to Japan.World War II Abandoned Places explores more than 100 bunkers, pillboxes, submarine bases, forts and gun emplacements from the North Sea to Okinawa. Included are defensive structures, such as the Maginot Line on France's eastern border with Germany, Germany's own western and eastern border defences, and the Atlantic Wall, the German-built bunkers and pillboxes on the coast from Denmark down to Brittany. The book also includes both Hitler's and Himmler's Eastern Front bunkers in Poland.But beyond the military installations, the book explores the ruins of concentration camps, the empty village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and the dilapidated Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, among other nonmilitary places.With 150 outstanding color photographs, World War II Abandoned Places is a brilliant pictorial examination of both the military and nonmilitary legacy of the conflict.