Description
It was the Belle Époque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home.
From the grand boulevards of Paris to China's Great Wall, from the construction of the Panama Canal to the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Holmes delighted in finding "the beautiful way around the world" and made a career of sharing his stories, colorful photographs, and films with audiences across America. He coined the term "travelogue" in 1904 to advertise his unique performance and thrilled audiences with two-hour sets of stories timed to projections of multihued, hand-painted glass-lantern slides and some of the first "moving pictures."
Paris, Beijing, Delhi, Dubrovnik, Moscow, Manila, Jakarta, Jerusalem: Burton Holmes was there. He visited every continent and nearly every country on the planet, shooting over 30,000 photographs and nearly 500,000 feet of film. This book represents the best of the Holmes archive, brimming with brilliant color photographs. A rare window onto the world of 100 years ago, it is also the ultimate inspiration to strike out on a travel adventure of your own.
About the series
Bibliotheca Universalis -- Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Author: Genoa Caldwell
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 10/23/2018
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.20w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9783836557801
ISBN10: 3836557800
BISAC Categories:
- History | General
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Science | General
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