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DescriptionNational Geographic is pleased to present our new Collector's Series. Each 6" by 6 1/2" gem is a fresh presentation of one of our world-famous photography books. A beautiful gift and lovely to own, in a size you can easily carry and easily afford. Our first volume, "Work: The World in Photographs", showcases this most universal human pastime through images culled from National Geographic's vast photographic archive as well as other important collections. This fascinating, wide-ranging volume presents a wonderfully varied group portrait of people at work - in great cities and tiny villages; in 19th-century China and 21st-century New York; in fields, factories, food carts, four-star restaurants, and just about everywhere else we earn our keep.Here are cowboys and clowns, shepherds and shopkeepers, street musicians and artists' models all plying their assorted trades; on one page a professional quarterback fires off a pass as the crowd cheers him on, on the next a lone fisherman casts his net in the silent solitude of a Pacific lagoon, and on the next a nomadic tribesman erects a yurt on the Mongolian plain. Work is a subject that is both worldwide and personal. Reviews."..the vivid images showcase the grit and glory of the grind." --"People" Author descriptionFerdinand Protzman is an award-winning writer, culture critic, and journalist. He is the author of Landscape: Photographs of Time and Place (2003) and Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places (2005). He has written reviews, and features for the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers |