Beautiful Prose and Photos
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If quilts are part of your heritage or if you are a contemporary quilter, this is the book for you.  The color plates and vintage photos provide visual delight.  The stories that accompany the quilts are warm, sad, happy and sometimes humorous.  Not being a quilter, I can't evaluate the four traditional patterns offered at the back of the book.  This books provides insight into our female pioneers who helped to open the west.  It made me proud--and so appreciative of the quilts I've inherited.
1216005
This guided journal is filled with some incredibly gorgeous illustrations.  There are pages and pages of beautifully drawn, colorful, motivating quotations between the journaling pages.  The questions and prompts are well-written, thought-provoking, and the layout is attractive.  It's a truly beautiful and detailed keepsake to archive your memories, stories, and thoughts in a way that begs you to revisit them.  I look forward to purchasing this journal again to give as a gift.
3937379
I found the book to have an excellent selection of photographs accompanied by a well-written text.  The authors writing is pithy and exciting. Both the writing and the photographs complement and enhance each other. As New York City's leading ghost host, I recommend the book very highly.
3415226
This magazine addresses a wide variety of traditional and contemporary crafts.  The articles are well written and the photography is absolutely beautiful.
185359
In this touching book of prose, the author has a way of quickly engaging the reader in the lives of the characters. Each story, through writing that is clear and compelling, brings to life a different aspect of family dynamics, relationships, or basic living.

It is refreshing to see an author able to use words to create such vivid imagery. The lives of the characters became real to me. The feelings evoked in the poetry stayed with me, giving me something to think about, long after the last page was turned. This is a book to cherish, to hold onto, to re-read again and again.
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The photographs in this book are truly beautiful and unique!
2648426
Well written and encyclopedic in its range, this book is also full of amazing photographs.
2651155
This is a beautiful collection of both photography and poetry.
4344187
Images far more emotional than specimen photographs...ideas far deeper than explanatory captions: this is an exquisite collection of photos and mini-essays that evokes wonder at the complexity and strangeness and sheer randomness of the natural world. The book works at several levels: as a handsome "coffee-table" book (yikes, but it could suffice if you just want to look at beautifully composed images); as a very informative and accessible read on Darwin's ideas and their physical manifestation in nature; and as an ongoing dialogue between a photographer and a writer, each using her particular medium powerfully to convey something splendid to the other, and vicariously to us as the lucky eavesdroppers.
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I was a student of Ted Hendrickson, and am familiar with his breathtaking photographs, so I was very excited to purchase this book.  I was expecting to receive a book that was pleasing to the eye, but it was pleasing to the mind as well.  The writing is poetic, and does great justice to the ethereal quality of the photographs.  It will make you want to take up the art of fly fishing and long-exposure photography at the same time.  I would highly recommend this book to anyone!
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Gorgeous prose that does not condescend to young readers. Dreamy, magical pictures painted with both words and illustrations. Gave this as a gift for my daughter's 8th birthday, and she is now inspired to see what she can make of our tiny backyard with her friends. Very Gyo Fujikawa-esque.
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This book has crisp photo quality and is beautifully laid out with many more pages than I was expecting.  There's enough content in here to keep me finding something new after many reads and I look forward to having it as one of my staple visual books.

Beautiful, haunting photos and overall a very unique photographic perspective.  Great purchase and excited to see more from the photographer.
3064392
Beautifully written and photographed. Ahearn's clear passion for food, farming, and cookery is inspiring. Her descriptions are thoughtful and interesting. I've thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and I look forward to preparing the recipes for family and friends.
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This is the best portrayal, for me, of contemporary photographs of Cuba. What I love is the research into places of history rather than just pretty pictures with patina'd buildings of nostalgia and colonialism, as many Cuban photo books document. There is beauty, sadness, joy, remembrance, eulogy, celebration and tragedy, all wrapped cohesively in one spectacularly beautiful book. And there is the added text by Jon Lee Anderson and Pico Iyer, two stellar writers.
3977130
I live in a part of the country famous for its beautiful historic stone fences, which I love, so I looked forward to receiving this book. There aren't as many stone fences pictured as I had expected -- actually there are more fire pits -- but the photography is wonderful and I loved the fire pits, too. But there is also an unexpected bonus to the book; it's more than pictures and project descriptions. The author/stonemason is also a fine writer and eloquently describes his feelings about the Vermont countryside where he lives and works, the stones he finds there and what they have to "say" to him, and the friends, neighbors and clients who share his live of nature.
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Fun fast read that is well organized and contains beautiful photos.
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I loved this beautiful,too short,book. Not only are the photos terrific,the author's descriptions of each subject and its environment are superb. I felt I understood the wonder the author found in each subject. He obviously revels in being outdoors,gently stalking his subjects,and providing the reader with the wonderful result.
I hope to see more from Mr. Allen.