Virginia Simply Beautiful II
photography by Charles Gurche
published by Farcountry Press
- In Virginia Simply Beautiful II, Gurche once again turns his sharp eye on the Old Dominion's lush landscapes. In 117 photographs taken over a fifteen-year period, he takes readers on a journey as varied, striking, and beautiful as the state itself. Gurche captures the state in all seasons, from the snow-covered boulders of the Hughes River in Shenandoah National Park to the colorful spring flowers at Oatlands mansion in Leesburg, from the fog-shrouded Manassas National Battlefield Park to the orange-, yellow-, and red-flamed trees along the New River.
120 pages, 10 1/2'' x 12'', 117 color photos, 14 hardcovers per case, Smythe-sewn
hardcover
ISBN 10: 1560374012
ISBN 13: 9781560374015
$29.95
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| "A new day begins on thirty-seven-mile-long Assateague Island, an Atlantic Ocean barrier island off Chincoteague, today a designated national seashore. The continuous work of wind and waves has moved the island a quarter of a mile closer to land than it was in 1866."
-page 71 "Now part of Colonial National Park, Yorktown Battlefield marks the end of British colonization of the future United States, which began nearby at Jamestown. Here the revolutionary army defeated the British in 1781, winning independence for the thirteen colonies."
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Charles Gurche is one of the United States' foremost nature and landscape photographers. His work has appeared in numerous calendars and magazines, including Audubon, National Geographic, Natural History, and Outside, and in numerous books on the Midwest and Northwest. He has photographed for Kodak, the Sierra Club, Smithsonian Books, and the National Park Service. Gurche has won awards from the Roger Tory Peterson Institute and the Society of Professional Journalists. |