Product Description: Using the mirror as their motif, seasoned photographers Roland and Sabrina Michaud pair traditional Chinese artworks, some of which date back eight centuries, with their own photographs of China taken over a period of nearly twenty years...read more

Product Description: Inspired by a series of journeys to the Middle East and Asia, photographers Roland and Sabrina Michaud offer striking testimony to the endurance of Islamic cultures with The Orient in a Mirror. Using the mirror as their motif, the Michauds pair traditional Islamic art miniatures, some of which date back eight centuries, with their own photographs of the Middle East taken over a period of nearly 50 years, beautifully evoking a lasting civilization rooted in faith and tradition...read more

Contains images of pre-civil war Afghanistan as taken by two western photographers between 1964 and 1978, complemented by text that considers the country's central role in current events, in a tribute to the region's once-beautiful cities, deserts, mountains, and bazaars.

Stunning photographic images from two distinguished photographers capture the engineering accomplishment of the 1,500-mile Great Wall of China as it stretches from the shores of the Pacific Ocean to the Gobi Desert, accompanied by an informative text that traces the history of the wall.

Amazon.com Review: The Koranic proscription against human and animal imagery turned centuries of Islamic artists and architects inward, to create unmatched examples of geometric and decorative art. This lavish, authoritative book, with gorgeous photographs by Roland and Sabrina Michaud, provides an introduction and overview to, as the subtitle disarmingly puts it, "Eight Centuries of the Tile-Maker's Art...read more

Photographs show the people, culture, homes, towns, ruins, mountains, and deserts of Afghanistan

This collection of color photographs taken throughout India captures a place where dreams and reality, blend, with quotations from the ancient 'Tales of the 1001 Nights'

Product Description: Central Asia is a vibrant mixture of civilizations and tongues; united by Islam, diversified by differing histories, cultures and languages. Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan and their neighbours are famed for their literature, and their multi-hued arts and crafts, but few realize how alive, how close to the surface are their powerful and enduring traditions...read more