Describes China's railroads, yards, and stations, shows scenery along major rail routes, and looks at the lives of train crews and travelers

China By Rail

Travel

Whitehouse, Patrick And Maggy

Asia

Vendome

Surveys the architecturally extravagant lodgings that were built from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries

The Great Houses of Paris (English and French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Claude Frégnac

Wayne Andrews

Photography & Video

Shows and describes the sailing ships which gathered in New York Harbor on July 4, 1986 for the hundredth anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, and identifies the parts of a ship

The Tall Ships: A Salute to Liberty July 4, 1986 (The Official Book of Operation Sail, 1986)

BUCKLEY, William F.

Flowers, Charles

Thomas McKnight (b. 1941) is one of the most successful artists in the United States. Best known for his celestial interiors and landscapes of the world's most beautiful places, his work has also explored an interior world he calls Arcadia-a place where nymphs linger by ancient springs, oracles speak, and angels fly. In a burst of creativity over the last decade, McKnight has developed a new style to depict these interior visions. The canvases are large, textured, and evoke the patina of ancient frescoes-and more than 100 of these new paintings are featured in this book, along with insightful commentary by Italian art critic Francesco Colonna. Thomas McKnight's Arcadia is a handsomely designed new monograph that will transport the reader to the paradise of the painter's imagination.

Thomas Mcknight's Arcadia

McKnight, Thomas

History & Criticism

All about the Silver Age of Russian art, life and culture.

Moscow and St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life and Culture of the Russian Silver Age

BOWLT, John E.

This is a true insider's view of the most elegant houses of Paris, home of the rich and famous generally seen here for the first time. No one could have better access than author Christiane De Nicolai-Mazery, whose family own one of the most beautiful medieval castles in France as well as a magnificent townhouse included in this extravagant book. 
 We are taken into a world of luxury and refinement beyond imagination: butlers setting a table for sixty in Baron Guy de Rothschild's palace, considered the grandest private house in France. Or a summer's day on the edge of Hubert de Givenchy's left-bank garden, where a table of six is set in eighteenth-century silver and porcelain. Visit the British Embassy, which still retains the décor and furniture of its erstwhile owner Paoline Borghese, sister of Napoleon. Tour the history-filled apartment of the Permanent Secretary to the French Academy. In some cases, the owners have refused to be identified, but that does not detract from the elegance of their interiors, the superb presentation of their food, or the fascinating descriptions of those who preceded them - including Madame de Stael, Proust's hero the Comtesse de Greffuhle, and a parade of now-departed bewigged grandees. 
 There have been other highly successful books on the great houses of Paris, but nothing this sumptuous or exclusive. This volume will seduce every Francophile, society watcher, and Paris lover, not to mention every decorator and party giver.

The Finest Houses Of Paris

NAUDIN, Jean-Bernard & NICOLAY-MAZERY, Christiane de

Architecture

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