The Man Who Photographed ­the World Burton Holmes : Travelogues, 1886-1938 By Burton Holmes, edited by Genoa Caldwell

The Man Who Photographed ­the World Burton Holmes : Travelogues, 1886-1938 By Burton Holmes, edited by Genoa Caldwell.

Publisher: Harry N Abrams , NY, 1977.

Good hardback, binding firm, large gift inscription to whole ffep, first and last few pages are quite foxed, foxing to edges throughout. Jacket very good, edge/shelf wear, rubbing with foxing spots to inside. 320 pages 340 illustrations. (40colour.).

Holmes's own descriptions of and observations on his world travels are intermingled with many of his memorable photographs of people and places in foreign lands. In an era before television and air travel, Burton Holmes the Travelogue Man, as he called himself was for many people the only window on the world. Single-handed, he brought the glamour and excitement of foreign lands to Americans unable to go themselves. That excitement is re-created in this magnificent album of his photographs, accompanied by his own writing. He rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Russia while they were still laying the track. He was in Naples in 1906, and recorded Vesuvius most devastating eruption in modern times. He covered the building of the Panama Canal, the Russo-Japanese War, the Boxer Rebellion in China. Holmes not only brought these and other events to American audiences, he even presented them in colour. In the 1890s, his 3 ½ x 4 ½-inch glass slides were exquisitely hand-painted in watercolour by a team of Japanese artists. In later years the painting was done in the United States by artists personally trained by Holmes.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

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