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Beach Stones
Josephine L Iselin
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Description for Beach Stones
Hardcover. Beach stones, abundant and free for the taking, are objects of contemplation, beauty, and sentiment. They come in many colours, shapes and patterns, are fun to collect and even have sensuous qualities. This book helps you understand the life of beach stones. It also brings us the stories of such stones. Num Pages: 144 pages, cl85/bw/tt85 illustrations, cl/bw/tt photographs. BIC Classification: AJC; WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 189 x 17. Weight in Grams: 478.
Walking along the water’s edge, who among us has not stopped to admire the evocatively patterned, shaped, and multihued stones that beckon? Fun to collect and free for the taking, beach stones are objects of contemplation, beauty, and sentiment. This exquisite volume—at once a gorgeous art book and a nature guide—presents more than 200 exceptional stones from around the world and describes the fascinating natural processes that produced them.Photographer and installation artist Josie Iselin, who uses a flatbed scanner to generate her imagery, has arranged these stones with great artistry, and nature writer Margaret Carruthers yields their secrets, revealing, for ... Read more
Walking along the water’s edge, who among us has not stopped to admire the evocatively patterned, shaped, and multihued stones that beckon? Fun to collect and free for the taking, beach stones are objects of contemplation, beauty, and sentiment. This exquisite volume—at once a gorgeous art book and a nature guide—presents more than 200 exceptional stones from around the world and describes the fascinating natural processes that produced them.Photographer and installation artist Josie Iselin, who uses a flatbed scanner to generate her imagery, has arranged these stones with great artistry, and nature writer Margaret Carruthers yields their secrets, revealing, for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Abrams United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780810955332
SKU
V9780810955332
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Josephine L Iselin
Josie Iselin is a photographer and installation artist. Her work has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, SF Camerawork, and art galleries in and around San Francisco, where she lives. Margaret W. Carruthers is the author of several earth science books, including Pioneers of Geology: Discovering Earth’s Secrets.
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