ACCLAIMED AUTHOR BARBARA KINGSOLVER brings her passion for the wilderness to bear in this striking book. Trained as a biologist, Kingsolver writes authoritatively, and movingly, about the continent's virgin pockets of desert, coast, grassland, forest, and wetland. ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGES: Specially com[...]
In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had been rounded up and were to be slaughtered for pet food. Shocked and angered by this gruesome discovery, she vowed to find a way to stop the cr[...]
"A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel" celebrates the fascinating career and life of Annie Griffiths Belt, one of the first female National Geographic photographers hired and allowed to travel on assignment outside the United States. In this richly illustrated volume, Belt shares intimate photographs and[...]
"Simply Beautiful" takes readers on a spectacular visual journey through some of the most stunning photographs to be found in National Geographic's famed Image Collection. Award-winning photographer Annie Griffiths Belt culled the images to reflect the many variations on the universal theme of beaut[...]
A stunning, vibrant and energetic celebration of photography and colour from National Geographic. Edited by Annie Griffiths who worked with NG on the gorgeous "Simply Beautiful" (over 13,000 copies sold in the UK to date). With chapters that follow the flow of the rainbow, "Life in Colour" explores [...]
The 2014 offering in National Geographic's iconic line of large-format photo books immortalises the richness of life, using evocative images that magnify the beauty, emotion and depth that can be captured in the split second of a camera flash. This elegant book will illuminate the power of photograp[...]
Life in Color is arranged by colour in a rainbow of beauty. Each chapter begins with a short, inspiring essay that explores the qualities, meaning, and symbolism of that colour. Throughout, interesting quotes and surprising short insights in the captions give the reader an entirely new look at the c[...]