Burton Holmes Travelogues, The Greatest Traveler of His Time - Reviews
"Burtons Reiseberichte sind einzigartige Dokumente, die gerade koloriert einen immensen Reiz entfalten."Nürnberger Zeitung, NürnbergGermany |
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"Holmes coined the phrase 'travelogue' in 1908 and this edition of his work is fascinating."Amateur Photographer, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"Colorisées de façon pittoresque par des aquarellistes, les photos de Holmes sont stupéfiantes de beauté mais croquent aussi des bouts d`histoire: le couronnement de Hailé Selassié, en 1903; la défaite des Russes à Port-Arthur en 1905; l`éruption de Vésuve, en 1906…Holmes était donc partout? Il aura en tout cas fait le tour de monde six fois, jusqu`à sa mort en 1958."Sciences et avenir, ParisFrance |
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"Vor rund 100 Jahren schuf ein Gentleman-Globetrotter zart kolorierte Träume von der weiten Welt: Die Lichtbilder von Burton Holmes sind für heutige Betrachter eine Reise durch Zeit und Raum … Die Bilder entfalten noch immer ihren Zauber. Sie berühren. Sie wirken nach. Sie ziehen den Betrachter in ein fremde Welt, die längst vergangen ist – weit, weit weg vom Alltag."Lufthansa Magazin, HamburgGermany |
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"This magnificent volume reproduces hundreds of Holmes extraordinary photographs. They bear witness to over 50 years of world history, through their direct and moving relationship with people from all around the globe. Although today it may be commonplace to travel the world and record what we see, there is nothing commonplace about the pictures collected in this remarkable book."
The Good Book Guide, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"Burton Holmes Travelogues is a hefty, handsome coffee-table book, documenting Holmes` travels through nearly 40 countries. All the photographs he took were fodder for the slideshow lectures he gave all around the country and in Europe. The word he and his producer coined for these lectures, ‘travelogue,` is now so much a part of our vocabulary that it can`t quite conjure how marvelous his ‘performances` must have been."The Seattle Times, SeattleUnited States |
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"Stupendous homage, with dazzling art, to the man Lowell Thomas called the ‘greatest traveler of our time` and the ‘dean of travelogues.`"The Philadelphia Inquirer, PhiladelphiaUnited States |
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"Remember the old Hank Snow song, I`ve Been Everywhere? Well, Burton Holmes, the U.S. photographer, was everywhere. He visited nearly every country in the world, shooting more than 30,000 photographs and 500,000 feet of film. The result is this glorious book (as one expects from TASCHEN), featuring colour and black-and-white photos such as a punting party on the Thames in 1897, a throng of Korean men in horsehair hats in 1901 and a Madrid street in 1928. Armchair travel at its best."The Globe and Mail, TorontoCanada |
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"Das bei TASCHEN erschienene Buch Travelogues präsentiert das Beste aus den Archiven Holmes` und enthält brillante Farbaufnahmen, die jahrzehntelang nicht veröffentlicht waren. Die Reiseberichte sind ein Blick in die Welt, wie sie vor 100 Jahren war, eine Reise in eine Zeit, die fast nicht mehr begreifbar ist, und sie machen Lust auf eigene Reisen."Cuxhaven Kurier, CuxhavenGermany |
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"This book represents the best of Holmes archive. Above all, it is an exceptional window on the world of 100 years ago; rosy, untrammelled, and before air travel or even radio. Leafing through, it is hard not to feel regret at its passing." Daily Telegraph, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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Burton Holmes Travelogues, The Greatest Traveler of His Time
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Holmes, Burton / Holmes, Burton Hardcover, 30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10.2 in.), 368 pages, $ 59.99 |
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