This text presents a collection of photographs, demonstrating that distance between cultures, no matter how great, is one of perception only. These images of pure snow, high peaks & foreign customs are offered to us to expand our knowledge of our world & our humanity. The photographs focus on the climate & culture through the landscape.
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This text presents a collection of photographs, demonstrating that distance between cultures, no matter how great, is one of perception only. These images of pure snow, high peaks & foreign customs are offered to us to expand our knowledge of our world & our humanity. The photographs focus on the climate & culture through the landscape.
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As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book description: Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2005. Hardback book, pictorial dust jacket, 216pp, 175 full-colour illustrations. Trans. from French by Simon Jones. Preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Book condition: NEW. Jacket condition: fine-some slight shelf-wear. Photographer Olivier Follmi first visited the Himalayas 25 years ago and the land has never lost its hold on him. His images of pure snow, high peaks and foreign customs transcend the categories of beauty or human interest. Follmi's love of his surroundings makes the strange familiar, and shows us a different, hardier and vital culture and landscape. Heavy book-may require extra postage.
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Very Good Condition in Very Good jacket. Text is clean, pages are white and crisp. Binding is tight and solid. DJ shows limited light shelving and two tears addressed by clear tape. Price is unclipped. Contains 95% + beautiful images of high peaks, snow, foreign customs and its peoples in living color by the former official photographer of the Dalai Lama. Large Format Collection-Rack 1 shelf 2. Preface by Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. Size: Coffee table size, may require extra shipping charges. 216 pp. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; Photography. ISBN: 0810959135. ISBN/EAN: 9780810959132. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561006480.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Illustrated (color). Tall 4to., black cloth covered boards, dust wrapper. First edition. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, (1995). A near fine copy in a near fine wrapper.
