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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A pretty picture book,
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This review is from: Nara Encounters (Paperback)
"Nara Encounters" is a collection of pretty photographs, combined with short quotes or poems from various writers and wits. The focus of the book is on Nara City, rather than Nara Prefecture.The photographs are nice, although nothing particularly unique. Close-up shots of flowers, long shots of sweeping terrain, the burning fields, the lanterns, the deer, and of course, the enormous Great Buddha. This is not a photo-journalist's guide to Nara, but instead a photo-romanticist's guide. The writing ranges from pithy and interesting, to as frothy and decorative as the photos. Nara City is an important piece of Japanese history, and this is represented through eyewitness accounts from across the centuries, and delicate Haikus. Rudyard Kipling is one of the featured writers. All in all, "Nara Encounters" is a nice book, short on depth and thin in length. It takes the view that Nara is a fairy-tale land of Castles, deer and flowers, with no actual people living in the City. |
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Nara Encounters by I. McDonald (Paperback - May 1, 1997)
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