Village Lost And Found

Product Description

This book is the perfect antidote to the stress of life in the 21st Century. It portrays the idyll of life in an 1850s village far from the sound of the trains whistle". The identity of the village was lost to the world for 150 years & only by a miracle does this magical set of stereoscopic views survive brought together for the very first time by Brian May & his co-author photohistorian Elena Vidal. Their research is amazingly in-depth but the book is utterly readable & the pictures leap into glorious 3-D viewed in the new focussing stereoscope which May has designed & produced to bring the stereos to life & then fold neatly into the slip-case of the book. The book gives an extraordinary insight into everyday village life at the time
- with a woman at her spinning wheel the blacksmith outside his smithy three men at the grind stone sharpening a tool the villagers in the fields bringing in the harvest as well as often taking time to enjoy a good gossip. In every case the original verse which accompanied the view is reproduced. In addition May & Vidal have researched & annotated all the views revealing another layer of meaning by exploring the history of these real characters this idyllic village & its links with the present day. The result is a powerfully atmospheric & touching set of photographs." A Village Lost & Found brings master pioneering stereographer T. R. Williamss passionate life-work Scenes in Our Village to a new audience
- in glorious 3-D as never before. For an Electronic Press Kit for A Village Lost & Found click here"