Holland

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HOLLAND
who has not heard the call of the Netherlands? You may have spent a holiday there or even lived there for a time. Perhaps you can locate each town, each famous museum, each historic site, and with closed eyes give a description of many of the places that attract both resident and visitor. You may have albums full of pictures of holidays at the beach and in the woods. And yet Just pick up this book, explore the country with photographer Ed. van Wijk and journalist Eduard EUas; you will see the Netherlands in a totally different way.
Van Wijk went through the country taking his pictures wherever he saw a lovely spot, a fine façade or a characteristic view. Nor did he content himself with avenues, façades, and clusters of trees ; but he captured in his pictures all those people who appeared to him typically Dutch and who fitted into the scene. Elias supplemented this collection with deKghtfid musing articles on the cities and towns, on the stillness of the country, on the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

HOLLAND
who has not heard the call of the Netherlands? You may have spent a holiday there or even lived there for a time. Perhaps you can locate each town, each famous museum, each historic site, and with closed eyes give a description of many of the places that attract both resident and visitor. You may have albums full of pictures of holidays at the beach and in the woods. And yet Just pick up this book, explore the country with photographer Ed. van Wijk and journalist Eduard EUas; you will see the Netherlands in a totally different way.
Van Wijk went through the country taking his pictures wherever he saw a lovely spot, a fine façade or a characteristic view. Nor did he content himself with avenues, façades, and clusters of trees ; but he captured in his pictures all those people who appeared to him typically Dutch and who fitted into the scene. Elias supplemented this collection with deKghtfid musing articles on the cities and towns, on the stillness of the country, on the water, the flowers, and the people. He also wrote the colourful tides of the pictures.
A Netherlander abroad wiH experience a flow of remembrances in turning over the leaves and in reading this book. But one need not be a Netherlander to enjoy this refreshing picture of the land, for it will give to everyone, especially to those who know this country a warm feeling of contentment and a secret pride in the beauty of die Netherlands. Vissza