Charles Rennie Mackintosh`s finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, & especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex & playful than any other work in Britain at that time. His interiors, many of them designed in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, are both spare & sensuous; a world of heightened aesthetic sensibility inside the Willow Tea Rooms or The Hill House. & his inventive imagination, which played constantly with the shape of curves & squares, produced designs for furniture which transformed ordinary chairs into pieces of abstract sculpture. Finally, in the 1920s he painted a series of watercolours which are as original as anything he had done before. Since his death, Mackintosh has been both lauded as a pioneer of the Modern Movement & as a master of Art Nouveau. ...

Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction & pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements & his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals & birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the tropical rain forests of South America without a gun or the society of other white men. He was an authority on the poisons used by South American Indians & a taxidermist of note. The huge public that read his books included Dickens, Darwin & Roosevelt. Since his death the memory of Waterton`s personal eccenticities has flourished, while the originality of his ideas & work has often suffered. Using his surviving papers, Julia Blackburn has redressed the balance in a biogr aphy that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age. ...

As editor-in-chief for the alternative weekly Connect Savannah Jim Morekis knows the best must-see sighs & local secrets of Charleston & Savannah, from exploring the French Quarter to kayaking in the Golden Isles. Morekis also

Includes:: unique trip strategies, such as Literary Lark, following the life & work of authors Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe, & John Berendt, & a Kayaker's Paradise tour. Including expert advice on walking Savannah's Historic District squares & dining on she-crab soup in Beaufort, Moon Charleston & Savannah gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal & memorable experience.

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Charleston & The South Carolina Lowcountry in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

Charleston on a laminated, tear-resistant Insight Flexi Map with an indexed street plan of the city, an enlargement for its historic area, a plan of Mount Pleasant, a road map of the Carolinas, plus extensive tourist information. The main plan covers Charleston extending north beyond the Hibernian Heights district, with an inset showing the city ...

Charleston in South Carolina on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. An inset presents downtown Charleston in greater detail. Coverage

Includes:: communities of Goose Creek, Hanahan, Isle of Palms, Lincolnville, Mount Pleasant, North Charleston Sullivan’s Islands & Summerville.NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked.

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Travel writer Jim Morekis shares the must-see sights & local secrets of Charleston, from the armaments at the Battery to the delights of the French Quarter. Morekis highlights historic destinations like the Nathaniel Russell & Heyward-Washington Houses while suggesting fun & delicious features of modern Charleston, like the gaslit charm of the Peninsula Grill. Including expert advice on kayaking the gorgeous waters around Hilton Head Island & dining on she-crab soup in Beaufort, Moon Charleston gives travellers the tools they need to create a more personal & memorable experience. ...

These three charming Southern ”capitals” (including the oldest in America) are massively popular tourist destinations because of their well-preserved architecture (capturing the ante-bellum life of the 1860s & the Spanish colonial era, in the case of St. Augustine), their active theatre scene (especially in Charleston), their numerous museums & historic homes, their remarkable restaurants, & the unique personality of their civic life & residents. You dip into an earlier era when you visit them. Frommer’s Easy Guide captures the best of this region, its facilities & attractions in condensed form, confining its 256 pages & maps to the outstanding highlights of all three cities. ...

Charleston, Savannah & the South Carolina Coast in Michelin’s ‘ Must Sees’ series is a lightweight guide containing must see information, must see sights, must do activities & must know practicalities graded using Michelin’s time-honoured star rating system. The guide opens with a section of useful ‘ Must Know’ information that

Includes:: a calendar of events, practical tips on getting by & a summary of Michelin selected star attractions. The ‘ Must See’ section of the guide look at shopping, nightlife & theatre, hotels & dining, parks & gardens, neighbourhoods, landmarks, museums, historic sites, practical information, events, tips & excursions. The ‘ Must Do’ chapter

Includes:: a focus on activities for children, whereas places to eat & places to stay are reviewed in the ‘ Must Eat’ & ‘ Must Stay’ chapters.



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