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We know Fitzroy Maclean the writer, but his photographs were quite good, too.
From ‘To Caucasus’ (published 1976).
Paddyfields around Mysore, by David Gentleman in his book of watercolours, INDIA.
“These are always lovely, particularly when the rice is young and the flooded fields reflect the sky.”
Next travel book up to review for @TheTLS, Hidden Places, by Sarah Baxter.
Beautiful illustrations by Amy Grimes.
“One life is an absurdly small allowance”, Freya Stark wrote to a friend aged 36.
Here she is below, aged one year, in 1894.
Wonderful photo of the artist taken by Gunārs Janaitis, taken in 1968.
‘Bread’ by M. Nurlybaev, 1975.
On display at the Kasteyev Museum of Fine Arts, Almaty.
@lickedspoon @indiaknight Not sure I have ever nodded so hard in agreement. Darwin is the best companion and I utterly adore him but he means a daily two hr hill walk for husband at 6am, me being with him all day and the (hard) trials of epilepsy and managing /paying for that. Reward vastly outweighs but!