![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. It's easy to imagine a lively collaborative volume on the festival, but by keeping things restrained, Nash provides a personal tour that gets to the heart of the spectacle.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Nash's singular, idiosyncratic perspective proves charming and frank for instance, Nash isn't shy about tensions within the community (mainly between those who come early to build and latecomers who take the effort for granted). Writer and psychonaut Daniel Pinchbeck provides a brief introduction, but Nash's images are better complemented by his own plainspoken commentary, which focuses on the hard realities of putting on an event of Burning Man's magnitude: hazardous road trips, labor-intensive construction, infrastructure management, crowd control and the final clean up. More than a hundred of his stripped-down images are collected here, a strange and beautiful catalog of the structures, vehicles, monuments and performances dreamed up in the middle of nowhere. Though it's known as much for hedonistic carousing as for art (if not moreso), Nash has been sleeping through the all-night parties for more than a decade so he can rise early and shoot artwork in the desert's morning light. ![]() ![]() of up to forty-thousand people") erected on an isolated stretch of Nevada desert every fall. Nash's understated black and white photography gives an unexpected and intimate glimpse into Burning Man, the art-centric festival-community ("essentially a temporary city. ![]()
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The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. All fine books in like wrappers which are unclipped. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. A set of first edition, first printings, published by Orion Books between 2005-2012. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a July 2005. 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