Burton Holmes Travelogues, The Greatest Traveler of His Time - Reviews
"The pictures are stunning both as a social history and as art... A gorgeously produced treasure trove."Geographical Magazine, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"The best of his huge archive has been collected by Genoa Caldwell into the amazing 368 page book Burton Holmes Travelogues."Sunday Post, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"This stunning and genuinely fascinating book is a record of the best of his archive of over 30,000 photographs and 500,000 feet of film... Beg, borrow, or steal to get your hands on a copy of this book."
Sunday Telegraph, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guidebook to his work, life and travels gives a comprehensive visual and textual picture of how Burton Holmes managed to roll travel, history, photography and entertainment into one. From the time he got his first camera at the age of 13 to his travels over a lifetime to nearly every country in the world, he chronicled a world no longer with us. His legacy lives on in these pages and brings his travels to a whole new audience."The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.United States |
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"Ever wonder where the term ‘travelogue` came from? Learn all about the man who coined it and where he went in the impressive Burton Holmes Travelogues. Travel writing and photography were relatively new fields when he started out at the turn of the century, but Holmes was no amateur. He globe-trotted all summer and lectured across the United States all winter, making it his business to bring home the wonders of the big wide world."San Francisco Chronicle, San FranciscoUnited States |
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"This is a delightful book about Burton Holmes, a 19th and 20th century adventurer credited with coining the word ‘travelogue`. It is as stylish as its subject, an elegant man who affected white suits and pith helmets as he traversed the world, camera in hand. . .The book, with its images of places now almost unrecognizable changed, is both history and biography."Los Angeles Times, Los AngelesUnited States |
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"Genoa Caldwell presents a gorgeous sequence of Holmes`s photographs, annotated with excerpts from the lectures he presented on popular cross-country tours for more than half a century, from the era of lantern-slide entertainment until the days of early television."New York Times, New YorkUnited States |
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"Burton Holmes fue uno del os grandes viajeros de su tiempo. Inventó el término de travelogues para designar las conferencias ilustradas sobre sus viajes. En este libro se recorren los cinco continentes, con fotos espectaculares y comentarios instructivos."El País ed.local, MadridSpain |
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"Burton Holmes fut l`un des plus grands voyageurs du début du XXe siècle. De ses voyages à travers la planète, il rapportait des clichés et des films qu`il rendait publics à travers les conférences baptisées « travelogues ». TASCHEN a rassemblé, en un même ouvrage, les images du photographe, les textes du conférencier et la vision du monde du voyageur."Senso, ParisFrance |
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"Reiseberichte heißt nun ein opulenter Bildband, der mit Hunderten Abbildungen einen Eindruck vermittelt von dem, was Holmes faszinierte und was die Magie seiner Aufführungen ausmachte. Das Buch entwirft ein grandioses Panorama der Welt, in dem sich auf eigentümliche Weise Exotik und Fortschrittsglaube kreuzen."Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am MainGermany |
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Burton Holmes Travelogues, The Greatest Traveler of His Time
Caldwell, Genoa (ED)
Holmes, Burton / Holmes, Burton Hardcover, 30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10.2 in.), 368 pages, $ 59.99 |
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