Art&DesignWinter2024

46 | RECENTLY RELEASED ISBN: 978-0-7643-6726-7 Size: 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" (191 x 267 mm) Pages: 136 Price: $29.99, £27.99, 42.99 CAD Illustrations: 37 color maps Binding: hardcover BISAC: TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure Atlas of Shipwrecks and Fortunes of the Sea by Cyril Hofstein Descriptions of the world’s greatest shipwrecks, tales, and adventures of the seas Well-illustrated color maps describe the locations of each of the storied locations Documented by a well-known writer and historian and part of the bestselling Atlas series This new title in this bestselling series relates 37 stories of shipwrecks, great discoveries, mysteries, and disappearances still thrilling adventure seekers. Captain Kidd’s fabulous treasure, the mystery of Catherine the Great’s lost paintings, the agony of the Sémillante . . . our maritime heritage is bursting with delightful stories about ships and sailors. The sea fortunes collected in this atlas carry us away to horizons where the slightest gust of wind can turn into a storm and drag even the sturdiest of ships to the bottom of the ocean. From the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean: shipwrecks, great discoveries, disappearances, or miraculous rescues make up a vast and fascinating map of the seven seas, where anything can happen. A trained historian who is passionate about the maritime world, sailors’ lore, and the lives of seafarers, Cyril Hofstein made his first forays into writing for the maritime journal Chasse-Marée . ISBN 978-0-7643-6726-7 ISBN: 978-0-7643-6725-0 Size: 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" (191 x 267 mm) Pages: 128 Price: $29.99, £27.99, 42.99 CAD Illustrations: 27 color maps Binding: hardcover BISAC: HISTORY / Civilization Atlas of Lost Paradises by Gilles Lapouge Descriptions of 27 of the world’s greatest attempts at re-creating or reimagining paradise Well-illustrated color maps describe the locations of each of the storied locations Documented by a well-known writer and journalist and part of the bestselling Atlas series Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth. Humankind knows too well that the Garden of Eden will not reopen its gates, but people are always on the lookout for its mirror image, its fleeting precursor. They have devoted many sleepless nights to fashioning their own Elysian Plains and have assembled a collection of El Dorados: ideal cities, castles where freedom reigns, islands without sin or sorrow, communities governed by love and nudity, flower and bird gardens, phalansteries and homes following the motto “Do as you please.” There are only few success stories. Yet, despite failing to build paradises endowed with an eternal life expectancy, civilizations have sometimes succeeded in manufacturing small plots of Eden, a Mount Olympus in miniature, capable of pinching a few days or centuries from our endless melancholy. Gilles Lapouge , born in 1923, was a writer and journalist. In 1951 he moved to Brazil, where he worked for the Brazilian daily Estado de São Paulo and was the newspaper’s France correspondent for over 60 years. ISBN 978-0-7643-6725-0