The Perimeter - Quintin Lake - diskuze

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKS'Every page twinkles with gems. . . Storytelling at human scale is slippery and elusive but The Perimeter is packed with geographical tales. It’s an exquisite record of a monumental endeavour and an intimate portrait of an extraordinary coast' Nicholas Crane'Astonishing . . . A fascinating, contemporary portrait of the coastline that defines us' Robert Penn'What an incredibly beautiful book, it captured my heart and took me to places I know well, reacquainted me with those I haven't visited for a while and fired my determination to visit many others. Armchair travel at its very best' Lara MaiklemA feast for the eyes and imagination. . . Quintin Lake has an unerring eye for the interesting, the witty and the beautiful. A book of stunning artistry, a remarkable adventuring achievement, and, in many ways, an invitation: to explore more, to understand more, to care more' Mary-Ann Ochota, President @CPRE the Countryside CharityRediscover Britain in this vivid and intimate full-colour account of one man’s pilgrimage along its rugged shoresOn Friday 17 April 2015, photographer Quintin Lake set off from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral on a five-year journey that would take him around the entire coastline of mainland Britain. Armed with twenty kilos of hiking and photography gear, he walked 11,000 kilometres in 454 days with one goal in mind: to produce a body of photographic work that gets under the
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