New Releases

This beautiful book by traveler Karen Johns documents her trip to Antarctica in 2014. Laden with exquisite photos, we feel we are with her on her journey through a reflective blue-ice paradise. Of course, the fluffy penguins will enchant everyone, but the ship photos cutting through still waters flanked by mountains and icebergs are amazing, along with timeless shots of whales and seals. This book will make anyone want to go visit.

Johns writes,

We travelled through one of the most beautiful wilderness places on earth, with snow, ice rock and teeming with amazing wildlife. Vast mountain ranges of emptiness

In March 2009 Roman Polanski shot “THE GHOSTWRITER” on the Isle of Sylt. The photographs in this book show the Listland Movie Set, left behind when the job was done – one still can sense the presence of Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor and Eli Wallach.

During the shooting of this film, Polanski was again called to trial in the US for a crime he committed years before – that of the rape of an underage girl. That will surely pique interest for this book, and its title.

The photos are a fascinating look at this abandoned film set, and a […]