Book Description
Folded page panoramas: one side "North"; verso "South."
Author : Matteo Pericoli
Publisher : Pan MacMillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2011
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 9780330517829
Folded page panoramas: one side "North"; verso "South."
Author : Matteo Pericoli
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Matteo Pericoli
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2012
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 9781447213130
London.
Author : Matteo Pericoli
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2008-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780811866118
Over 12 million people each year are wowed by Matteo Pericoli's spectacular skyline mural in New York's JFK Airport. This work renders that mural in the accordion format of Pericoli's previous book, 'Manhattan Unfurled' - shrinking it down to a ten-foot foldout scroll of paper that readers can hold in their hands.
Author : Stephen Alford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1620408236
The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. At the start of the century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened, which placed London at the center of the world stage forever. Stephen Alford's evocative, original new book uses the same skills that made his widely-praised The Watchers so successful, bringing to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks, and sailors who changed London and England forever. In a sudden explosion of energy, English ships were suddenly found all over the world--trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic, and fanning out across the Indian Ocean. The people who made this possible--the families, the guild members, the money-men who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic, and desirable--are as interesting as any of those at court. Their ambitions fueled a new view of the world--initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which still resonate today.
Author : Nigel Rodgers
Publisher : Bene Factum Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Umbrellas
ISBN : 9781903071687
Universally recognisable, the umbrella and its older, prettier sister the parasol have made their mark. Politics, religion, war and fashion have all been influenced by this modest contraption. With a beautiful collection of images, The Umbrella Unfurled follows its hero to Ancient Egypt, where at first it was for the Pharaoh's use only. References and physical representations of it are found throughout the Old World, often bearing great symbolic and ceremonial weight. Yet despite its more practical reputation in the West, it still holds cultural significance. As the ultimate accoutrement to the fashionable Edwardian lady; as part of the rank-and-file uniform of the City gentleman; it even made it onto the battlefield, though against the better judgement of the Duke of Wellington. And it has been wielded with more sinister intent as the weapon of choice by the KGB in seeking to dispatch dissidents abroad. Decorative, useful, symbolic and even deadly, the umbrella has a story older and more elaborate that one might think, all related in a highly entertaining gift book that could only have been written by an Englishman.
Author : Donald W. Meinig
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295805196
Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the story of its transformation. Meinig traces all of the aspects of its development by combining geographic description with historical narrative.
Author : Matteo Pericoli
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 030798320X
Stellina was a bird: “CHEEP.” A very little bird: “Cheep! cheep!”So begins critically acclaimed author Matteo Pericoli’s all-true story of how he and his wife, Holly, came to rescue and raise a little finch, Stellina, in the middle of New York City. When no zoo would take the abandoned bird, fallen from her nest onto a busy street, Holly took her home and gave her the best life she could. And there, in a Manhattan apartment, Stellina leaned how to eat, fly, and sing.
Author : Lucinda Gosling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2013-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0747813337
Until the middle of the last century, London's social calendar was dominated by 'the Season', a round of social events and parties during which the daughters of the upper classes made their 'debuts'. Debutantes and their families descended on the capital from all over Britain to take part in this elaborate process that in its blend of glamour, great privilege and archaic and sometimes comic ritual is emblematic of a world now lost. From the preparations and formalities of court presentation to the exhausting round of parties that followed, Debutantes and the London Season is a detailed look at a phenomenon that was central to the lives of generations of privileged young ladies.
Author : Matteo Pericoli
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art/New York
ISBN : 9780375824692
The trained architect's portrait of Manhattan is published here in a fold-out format, revealing panoramic views of the East Side and West Side of the famous skyline.