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PREFACE I _ -HIS book is an attempt to explore my own experience. In writing it I was interested to discover that in some ways my experience has been closer to the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church than to that of Western Christianity. As I said in my essay in Soundings and in the...

"The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen." Written in 1936 by the Hungarian photographer László Moholy-Nagy, these words alone justify a knowledge of photography. But knowing how to take and appreciate photographs does very much...

Foreword Of all the higher forms of life the birds are the most beautiful, most musical, most admired, most watched and most defended. Indeed, there is scarcely a square mile of the earth's surface that some birds do not occupy, or travel across, except the interior of the Antarctic continent....

Foreword by SirNikolaus Pevsner The first world history of architecture was published 254 years ago. It is Fischer von Eriach's Entmirff einer Historischen Architectur. Fischer von Erlach was Architect to the Emperor Charles VI. His book consists of large etchings, each with two or three...