Download or read book Norfolk Landscapes written by Doug Kennedy and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a couple of hours by train from London. It has been a center of great political power, but is on no major transport routes, so has no motorways and has been largely bypassed by the Industrial Revolution. As a result, many of its towns and villages are relatively unspoiled, so have kept their old buildings and character and are a delight to visit. Although known for its wide open landscapes, of which there are many, Norfolk has an abundance of delightful corners and beautiful gardens where it is the miniature that charms and tranquillity reigns. This beautiful photo book captures the essence of Norfolk's varied landscapes in sumptuous images and an informative text that gets underneath the surface of why things look like they do. The Norfolk Broads, Breckland, The Waverley Valley, The Fens and the coastlines are explored in turn along with the wildlife you can encounter on the way. In addition, Norfolk's lovely churches that punctuate every view, and the distinctive traditional buildings that give each area its special flavor are featured. Doug Kennedy has roamed the County on foot and by boat, seeking out what makes each place special and applying his photographer's eye to capture the scene perfectly. It is a book for everyone who loves the Norfolk to treasure, and a splendid introduction to its landscape for those less familiar with a classic corner of England.
Download or read book The Norfolk Broads written by Tom Williamson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the evolution of the Norfolk Broads and its landscape. Much has been written in the past about the wildlife and ecology of this fascinating region.
Download or read book Brian Ryder ROI Prov written by Adrian Hill and published by Halstar. This book was released on 2010 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countryside of Norfolk has for centuries challenged artists to paint its wide landscapes, seascapes and incomparable skies. And while many have tried, few have wholly succeeded. Brian Ryder is among the fortunate handful of contemporary painters who the public recognise as successfully capturing both the physical quality and the essential atmosphere of the places he paints. His bold approach to making his work, his uncompromising self criticism allied to years honing his painterly skills, give his paintings an exciting and fresh appeal - combining the best of painting tradition with a unique contemporary flair. In this book we are given an insight into the background of the artist, his early life and his development as a painter. Despite a number of setbacks his determination to succeed brought early recognition in the form of an exhibition and a gold medal at La Biennale deVenezia. His love ofVenice is portrayed through the paintings of that wonderful city that are included here. But it is the artist¿s Norfolk paintings that form the bulk of this book, appropriately so, as the county is now very much Brian¿s adopted home. Anyone with a love of Norfolk and its spectacular landscape will find much to delight them among the superb paintings included here. Brian Ryder lives and paints in North Norfolk. He paints in oils, watercolour and mixed media. His work is held in many collections internationally both private and public. Brian is a provisional member ofThe Royal Institute of Oil Painters and chairman of theWells Art Group. As well as Brian's successful books and DVDs, Brian teaches his painting techniques around the world and contributes regularly to Leisure Painter magazine.
Download or read book A History of Norfolk in 100 Places written by David Robertson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the county's rich history. Starting with real footprints of people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History of Norfolk in 100 Places will take you on a chronological journey through prehistoric monuments, Roman forts, medieval churches and Nelson's Monument, right up to twentieth-century defensive sites. With detailed entries illustrated by aerial photographs and ground-level shots, here you will find a reliable guide to historic places that are either open to the public, or are visible from public roads or footpaths for you to explore.
Download or read book Norfolk Gardens and Designed Landscapes written by Patsy Dallas and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk Gardens is a celebration of the rich history of gardens and parks in the county of Norfolk - a kind of 'Pevsner's Guide' for lovers of designed landscape.
Download or read book Drawing the Landscape written by Chip Sullivan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant Fourth Edition of Chip Sullivan's classic Drawing the Landscape shows how to use drawing as a path towards understanding the natural and built environment. It offers guidance for tapping into and exploring personal creative potential and helps readers master the essential principles, tools, and techniques required to prepare professional graphic representations in landscape architecture and architecture. It illustrates how to create a wide range of graphic representations using step-by-step tutorials, exercises and hundreds of samples.
Download or read book William Faden and Norfolk s Eighteenth Century Landscape written by Andrew Macnair and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time. The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD. Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of History and Head of the Landscape Group at the University of East Anglia.
Download or read book Piet Oudolf written by Piet Oudolf and published by Monacelli Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading figure in the New Perennial planting movement, garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf emphasizes plant structure as the most important aspect of a successful garden, along with form, texture and colour. He uses perennials almost exclusively to create lasting, ecologically sound panoramas that relate to the greater landscape and the shifting seasons. This book features twenty-three of Oudolf's public and private gardens, along with detailed plans to provide inspiration and insight for small personal gardens and for the design of large-scale public landscapes.--From book flap.
Download or read book Fixing Landscape written by Corey Byrnes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries of literature and art. The controversial history of the dam is well known; what this book uncovers are its unexpected connections to the cultural traditions it seems to sever. By reconsidering the dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Three Gorges region over more than two millennia, Fixing Landscape offers radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China. Corey Byrnes argues that this monumental feat of engineering can only be understood by confronting its status as a techno-poetic act, a form of landscaping indebted to both the technical knowledge of engineers and to the poetic legacies of the Gorges as cultural site. Synthesizing methods drawn from premodern, modern, and contemporary Chinese studies, as well as from critical geography, art history, and the environmental humanities, Byrnes offers innovative readings of eighth-century poetry, paintings from the twelfth through twenty-first centuries, contemporary film, nineteenth-century British travelogues, and Chinese and Western maps, among other sources. Fixing Landscape shows that premodern poetry and visual art have something urgent to tell us about a contemporary experiment in spatial production. Poems and paintings may not build dams, but Byrnes argues that the Three Gorges Dam would not exist as we know it without them.
Download or read book Landscapes and Artefacts written by Steven Ashley and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Rogerson is one of the most important and influential archaeologists currently working in East Anglia. This collection will be essential reading for those interested in the history and archaeology of Norfolk and Suffolk, in the interpretation of artefacts within their landscape contexts, and in the material culture of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book North Norfolk written by Rachel Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Norfolk coast has wild open landscapes, remote marshes, seamless sea and sky vistas, and a vulnerable wilderness like no other in England. Artist Rachel Lockwood takes you on her journeys around her home in Cley next the Sea in search of her perfect painting locations.
Download or read book The Conservation Movement in Norfolk written by Susanna Wade Martins and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not only about wildlife habitats, landscapes, historic buildings and archaeology; it is also about changing attitudes and priorities. --
Download or read book Landscapes of Lordship written by Robert Liddiard and published by BAR British Series. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed study, Liddiard examines the processes and factors which determined the number, distribution and location of castles and considers how a castle's construction altered its environment. Using structures such as Castle Acre, Castle Rising, Middleton and Horsford as examples, Liddiard suggests that the location of most of Norfolk's castles was shaped by social factors and not military considerations. Castles were primarily intended to act as residences even though they were designed to dramatically dominate the landscape.
Download or read book Lost Norfolk Landscapes written by Horace Tuck and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains over 150 paintings and drawings that evoke the landscape of Norfolk as it was in the first 50 years of the last century. It is compiled almost exclusively from a single collection of works by Horace Tuck. Few of the paintings have been seen by the public.
Download or read book Afghanistan written by Simon Norfolk and published by Dewi Lewis Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer based in London. His previous book, 'For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory' about the places where there have been Genocides, was published in 1998 by Dewi Lewis Publishing. The pictures in 'Afghanistan: chronotopia' were made in December of 2001 and May of 2002 and won the European Publishers Award for Photography.
Download or read book Managing the Historic Rural Landscape written by Jane Grenville and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Norfolk Tour or Traveller s Pocket Companion Being a concise description and present state of all the Noblemens and Gentlemens seats as well as of the principal towns and other remarkable places in the county of Norfolk Compil d from the most authentic historians and modern travellers and corrected to the present time Edited by Richard Beatniffe written by Richard BEATNIFFE and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
