European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I a4 ii j i travel books wanderlust by Steve silk the Hartford courant a great coffe table travel Book is the ultimate invitation to adventure. The Glossy pages startling images and evocative text exude a Lush sensuality that fires the imagination. The Best of these pictorial extravaganzas can vividly transport readers to exotic and unknown realms to places so strange they May seem As if they Are not of this Earth. That s precisely the terrain explored in strange amazing and mysterious places with an introduction by William s. Burroughs and essays by Richard Marshall Collins $45. Here the Mystic places of the Earth from sacred mount Kailas in. Tibet and the ancient mayan ruins of Palenque to the dramatic Abbey of Mont St Michel in France and the Mountaintop monasteries of Greece Are linked in a thematic journey to the Wellsprings of the spirit. Inspiration for the trip is provided by Burroughs humanity s Point Man on forays into the unknown. Another Able guide to things strange is Paul Bowles the expatriate american writer who found inspiration in the mysterious kingdom of Morocco. Morocco with text by Bowles and photographs by Barry Brukoff Abrams $49.50 charts bowies journeys through the country he now Calls Home. Brukoff s photos capture the magic of this fabled land from the Ca Bahs of the Sahara to the courtyards of Marrakesh and the souks of Fez. Brukoff s pictures of fishing villages on the Atlantic Are especially alluring. In far journeys photographs and notebooks diking $35starkly simple photographs by the late English travel writer Bruce Chatwin complement his journal jottings from trips to Afghanistan and East Africa. Chatwin s images like his chiselled prose reveal a fascination with simple but resonant details the bits and pieces he uses to build a Rich mosaic of impressionistic splendor. Like Chatwin Galen Rowell is a photographer and writer enraptured by faraway places. Rowell s particular fascination has been with mountains and his climbing expeditions to the Himalayas the Andes and elsewhere have afforded him the Opportunity to make exquisite images of the Earth s wild places and the people who inhabit them. Rowell s vision the Art of adventure photography Sierra club books $25 uses inspirational and explanatory essays to reveal How some of those Eye popping photographs were made. The Himalayas or More precisely the people who live among the world s highest mountains also inspired photographer Kevin Bubriski. To document the fast changing kingdom Bubriski lugged a heavy 4x5 View camera into Remote villages. The timeless photographs he captured create portrait of Nepal chronicle books $40. Bubriski s Luminous Black and White portraits and misty looking landscapes recall the work of Edward Curtis who chronicled the Twilight of traditional american Indian life. When most people think of extinction they think of Africa where endangered species have already attracted much attention. But there As elsewhere the very existence of Many tribal groups is threatened As Well. Rene Gordon s Africa a continent revealed St. Martin s press $40 combines the work of dozens of photographers to assemble a sweeping pictorial epic of Africa from Cairo and Casablanca to Cape town. Stunning wildlife photographs bizarre tribal rituals alien landscapes they re All Here. Otherworldly landscapes Are a characteristic of Australia too and the wonder Down under is explored in Australia journey by Jean Michel Cousteau and Mose Richards Abrams $39.95. The son of the famed undersea researcher Jacques Cousteau Cousteau intended to limit his studies to the great Barrier reef but was so intrigued by the Island continent that he spent three years studying its aborigines Opal mines and National Parks to compile this portrait of land and sea. More refined landscapes can be found in Provence with photographs by Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo Abbeville Vienna opens jewish museum in old Quarter from wire reports Vienna Austria has just opened the jewish museum in the heart of its old Quarter. First exhibits include a collection of objects from the City s jewish past from the Middle Ages to 1994 called this is where Teitelbaum lived and a photo documentary of the founder of is John Bohmer Neuse Hanstein is featured in living in a dream great residences of the  press $45. Paeans to this part of France Haye become almost commonplace since Peter Mayle captured the Best seller list with a year in Provence and these shimmering images of Lavender or Sunflower filled Fields rugged landscapes and craggy villages make the Region seem even More appealing. Another storied stretch of Europe gets its due m James Joyce reflections of Ireland with photographs by Alain be Gars eur and text by Bernard Mccabe Macmillan $35. Gars eur s straightforward photographs illustrate selected snippets of James Joyce s prose and display Ireland s timeless essence. One of the palaces left by the moors in Spain the Alhambra is among the dozen cast Elike Homes profiled in living in a dream great residences of the world with a foreward by John Julius Norwich Simon & schuster $60. Windsor Castle the pot Ala Neuse Hanstein Versailles and others Are pictured in glorious detail but the real fun is checking out the floor plans. Ansel Adams immense popularity rests entirely on his Black and White oeuvre but the master tinkered with color and carried on a sort of love hate affair with the medium. You can see the fruit of that relationship in Ansel Adams in color edited by Harry m. Callahan with selected writings by Ansel Adams Little Brown and company $50. Roundabout psychoanalysis and his apartment before he emigrated to London among others. The new Denver International Airport scheduled to open in december is grounded until March. The opening of what s billed As the world s most efficient and technologically advanced Airport has been postponed pending completion of the automated baggage system communications systems and training of airline personnel. Working travellers can use their airline tray tables for Flat work but a new lecture Type Gadget that Hooks Over the Forward seat can add workspace by propping up books magazines or source materials. The sky desk from air brain weighs 6 ounces and fits into a briefcase. To order Call 800 -836-0820. Trip planners can help save Telephone charges by using those ubiquitous toll free 800 numbers. The at to toll free consumer directory lists More than 6,000 travel organizations that can Send information take reservations or just answer questions via their 800 numbers the Book is $14.99 and can be ordered by calling 800m 26-8686. Note most 800 numbers Are not free when dialled from Europe. The world is shrinking in More ways than one. Now you can make a Telephone Call from your briefcase from the deepest darkest Jungle or on top of mount Everest. Beyond cellular the Mobile Earth station from Comsat Mobile communications uses the in Arsat a satellite network to Hook up to the Telephone system. Out of reach though of the satellites orbits Over the Equator Are the North and South poles says George Zachman of Comsat. The technology has been around can used it to broadcast from Baghdad but the equipment weighed several Hundred pounds. What s new is that we be gotten it Down to briefcase size Zachman said. This briefcase in t cheap $13,500 to $25,000, depending on options such As fax machine Modem Battery pack. Satellite service is $5.50 a minute. You can also receive Calls but the briefcase won t ring on the run. It has to be set up with its Antenna pointing toward the satellite. For information 301 428 2222. 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