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This book is written for a double purpose: to reveal to lovers of
sculpture the beauties of certain Romanesque work hitherto hidden in
remote corners of the Pyrenees, and to suggest to travellers the
attractions of a little country formerly known as the Roussillon, which
now forms part of the Pyrénées Orientales.
Well off the beaten track, though within easy reach of London, it should
appeal to lovers of fine scenery and to students of Romanesque and
mediæval architecture.
Miss Isabel Savory, author of "The Tail of the Peacock" and "A
Sportswoman in India," has explored every inch of it. Each chapter is a
witness to the writer's research in the Library at Perpignan, coupled
with a graphic description of the country from an artistic point of
view, and lively portraits of the Catalam as he exists to-day.
Miss Muriel Landseer MacKenzie, sculptor and great-niece of Sir Edwin
Landseer, gives a series of pencil drawings of which the collotype
process makes faithful reproductions. Apart from their own merit, they
represent subjects of which apparently no records exist, details of
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture discovered in neglected abbeys,
old churches, and ruins in the hills.
At the end of the book there is a map and a few practical notes for
travellers which indicate that prices are moderate, and that there are
good roads for motorists, though the country is pre-eminently adapted
for those who like the informality of the knapsack and the mountain
path.
In the Wilds of South America: Six Years of Exploration in
Colombia, Venezuela, British Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina,
Paraguay, and Brazil. By LEO E. MILLER, of the American Museum of
Natural History. First Lieutenant in the United States Aviation
Corps. With 48 Full-page Illustrations and with maps. Demy 8vo,
cloth.
21s. 0d. NET. Inland Postage 6d.
This volume represents a series of almost continuous explorations hardly
ever paralleled in the huge areas traversed. The author is a
distinguished field naturalist--one of those who accompanied Colonel
Roosevelt on his famous South American expedition--and his first object
in his wanderings over 150,000 miles of territory was the observation of
wild life; but hardly second was that of exploration. The result is a
wonderfully informative, impressive, and often thrilling narrative in
which savage peoples and all but unknown animals largely figure, which
forms an infinitely readable book and one of rare value for geographers,
naturalists, and other scientific men.
Millions from Waste. By Frederick A. TALBOT, Author of "The Oil
Conquest of the World," "All About Inventions and Discoveries,"
"Moving Pictures; How they are Made and Worked," "Practical
Cinematography," "The Building of a Great Canadian Railway," etc.,
etc., etc. Demy 8vo, cloth.
21s. 0d. NET Inland Postage, 6d.
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