Coffee Table Books
Topic 28 · 12 responses · archived october 2000
~wolf
Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (19:29)
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I love great big books with lots of photographs of the world around me. Do you?
~wolf
Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (19:31)
#1
I have a couple of books from National Geographic and I love them. As a child we had lots of books like this around and I could sit for hours getting lost in them. My grown up collection is slow growing but one book at a time!
~MarciaH
Sun, Apr 16, 2000 (17:59)
#2
Ooh, I have several from Britain and about Britain; and my favorite books, wherever from the air photography. Hawaii, London, Oahu, Britain, and Malta are some of them. Of course, Atlases, as well. Must have maps. Gotta have them from the Thomas Brothers Maps of California to the Ordnance Surveys of the UK.
I definitely need an updated World Atlas...it keeps changing out there.
Oh yes, and a splendid one on the Volcano (Kilauea) which contains a photo David took when Mauna Loa was erupting and the entire skyline above Hilo was outlined in active flow fronts. Most impressive...and most disquieting.
~sprin5
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (09:03)
#3
I'm a map fanatic too. But I mostly just have maps, rather than books and atlases.
~MarciaH
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (11:24)
#4
I have maps, too...loose ones which I store in an accordion-pleated whatevers (can't remember what they're called). I know where more obscure little islands in the world are by hunting for them on my maps during DXpeditions.
~wolf
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (11:26)
#5
and speaking of maps, do remember our map collecting topic in collections!
~MarciaH
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (11:53)
#6
Not to mention the Cartography topic in Geo...
~wolf
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (18:49)
#7
are those two topics attached?
~MarciaH
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (19:08)
#8
No...none of the map topics are linked...Yours and mine should have been from the beginning, but when we were in the first frenzy of creation that July day, we did not think of linking...
~wolf
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (20:39)
#9
that's alright. i think yours is more along the lines of creating and mine's of keeping *grin*
~MarciaH
Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (21:00)
#10
This is true...*s i g h*
~sociolingo
Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (03:56)
#11
My favourite coffee table books are of Gambia, predictably. I wallow in nostalgia sometimes. The others are mainly art books. I have a long shelf of large books, including the Anglo Saxon Chronicles which sort of counts.
~MarciaH
Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (15:47)
#12
The Domesday Book is not in your collection???!!! That would surely qualify, but you'd have to mortgage the house to afford a copy - even the newly released one...! It would look nice beside the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, I think...