Product Description: Oxbow says: From 1993, the North Somerset Levels Project sought to investigate the origins and development of this area of reclaimed coastal marshland during the first and second millennia AD. The inter-disciplinary approach taken has added archaeological (survey and excavation) data, palaeoenvironmental evidence, studies of documentary sources, architecture, cartography and field- and place-names, to what was already known about the historic landscape...read more

Product Description: Walls within walls, mysteries within mysteries, Peking presented an enigma so compelling that tracellers paused in wonder outside its towering ramparts, and writers from around the world were drawn like pilgrims to the scene of a miraculous occurrence...read more

Product Description: The pages of this latest FormAsia title reveal the end of a proud and colourful colonial era. Each prized object featured tells an absorbing story - the faded and fragile Colours of the Volunteers buried during the dark years of occupation; the charred remains of the Union Jack salvaged from the burning luxury liner Queen Elizabeth; the Victorian medal commemorating the extraordinary siege of Peking...read more

Product Description: First published in 1970, this reprint edition recounts the experiences of a wide range of Western travellers in China over thirteen centuries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reprinted for the first time since its original publication twenty years ago, The Face of China is an evocative and candid collection of some of the first photographs made in that country. Along with descriptive captions, these images describe the daily life and surroundings of an era now passed.The people are as seen through Western eyes, and the places are as traversed by foreigners. These early photographers were explorers and adventurers. They lugged huge cameras with heavy glass plates over rugged, unfamiliar terrain. Interspersed throughout the book are passages from significant texts and travelers' diaries, observations and opinions that echo and illuminate the images. For many Chinese, these photographers were the first white faces ever seen, and they carried with them previously undreamed-of contraptions. For all this, there is an unguarded air to many of the portraits, and the street scenes have the candid look of today's street photographer.

Product Description: Book by Cameron, Nigel (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1970, this reprint edition recounts the experiences of a wide range of Western travellers in China over thirteen centuries. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Cameron, Nigel