I say a French Flashman...it would probably be more appropriate to describe George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman as an English Gerard, given that this character preceded our favourite poltroon (at least GMF's version of him) by a good seventy years. Many of the features that we might attribute to Harry Flashman, we find first belonging to Etienne Gerard: the cavalry whiskers, the way with the ladies, the good looking, and dashing officer.
I have never been a huge fan of the Sherlock Holmes novels and that is indeed all I have associated Arthur Conan Doyle with until recently - what a fool I've been. Etienne Gerard, for me at least, outstrips Holmes at every turn. ACD has created in Gerard a character that by all rights should be up ... Read More:
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I say a French Flashman...it would probably be more appropriate to describe George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman as an English Gerard, given that this character preceded our favourite poltroon (at least GMF's version of him) by a good seventy years. Many of the features that we might attribute to Harry Flashman, we find first belonging to Etienne Gerard: the cavalry whiskers, the way with the ladies, the good looking, and dashing officer.
I have never been a huge fan of the Sherlock Holmes novels and that is indeed all I have associated Arthur Conan Doyle with until recently - what a fool I've been. Etienne Gerard, for me at least, outstrips Holmes at every turn. ACD has created in Gerard a character that by all rights should be up ... Read More:
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I say a French Flashman...it would probably be more appropriate to describe George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman as an English Gerard, given that this character preceded our favourite poltroon (at least GMF's version of him) by a good seventy years. Many of the features that we might attribute to Harry Flashman, we find first belonging to Etienne Gerard: the cavalry whiskers, the way with the ladies, the good looking, and dashing officer.
I have never been a huge fan of the Sherlock Holmes novels and that is indeed all I have associated Arthur Conan Doyle with until recently - what a fool I've been. Etienne Gerard, for me at least, outstrips Holmes at every turn. ACD has created in Gerard a character that by all rights should be up ... Read More:
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DK have done it again...practical, well set out and ful of useful info, including what to ( and what not to!) eat and what it should look like! The book is set out in colour coded sections and broken down in areas, sets out the authors view on best sights to see in each area as well as the whole city. Understanding maps can be tricky, and the 3D pics are confusing...or were for me, but overall, a good buy at a great price
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DK have done it again...practical, well set out and ful of useful info, including what to ( and what not to!) eat and what it should look like! The book is set out in colour coded sections and broken down in areas, sets out the authors view on best sights to see in each area as well as the whole city. Understanding maps can be tricky, and the 3D pics are confusing...or were for me, but overall, a good buy at a great price
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DK have done it again...practical, well set out and ful of useful info, including what to ( and what not to!) eat and what it should look like! The book is set out in colour coded sections and broken down in areas, sets out the authors view on best sights to see in each area as well as the whole city. Understanding maps can be tricky, and the 3D pics are confusing...or were for me, but overall, a good buy at a great price
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A fittingly huge tribute to the man who captured Modernism in western America and especially in California. I thought the beauty of these three huge books was the way they are organized: historically using Shulman's own job reference numbers. Obviously there is not going to be a photo of every commission because a lot of his time was spent on what he calls `bread and butter work'. So book 1 starts with #0003 in 1939 with Gregory Ain's Scheyer residence in LA and book 3 ends in 1981 with #5976 Augustin Hernandez's studio in Mexico City. Although Shulman is working again, with German photographer Juergen Nogai, the contents of the three books are based on the 250,000 negatives he presented to the Getty Research Institute upon retiring in 2004. ... Read More:
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A fittingly huge tribute to the man who captured Modernism in western America and especially in California. I thought the beauty of these three huge books was the way they are organized: historically using Shulman's own job reference numbers. Obviously there is not going to be a photo of every commission because a lot of his time was spent on what he calls `bread and butter work'. So book 1 starts with #0003 in 1939 with Gregory Ain's Scheyer residence in LA and book 3 ends in 1981 with #5976 Augustin Hernandez's studio in Mexico City. Although Shulman is working again, with German photographer Juergen Nogai, the contents of the three books are based on the 250,000 negatives he presented to the Getty Research Institute upon retiring in 2004. ... Read More:
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A fittingly huge tribute to the man who captured Modernism in western America and especially in California. I thought the beauty of these three huge books was the way they are organized: historically using Shulman's own job reference numbers. Obviously there is not going to be a photo of every commission because a lot of his time was spent on what he calls `bread and butter work'. So book 1 starts with #0003 in 1939 with Gregory Ain's Scheyer residence in LA and book 3 ends in 1981 with #5976 Augustin Hernandez's studio in Mexico City. Although Shulman is working again, with German photographer Juergen Nogai, the contents of the three books are based on the 250,000 negatives he presented to the Getty Research Institute upon retiring in 2004. ... Read More:
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