Product Description: Walking along the water's edge, who among us has not stopped to admire the evocatively patterned, shaped, and multihued stones that beckon? Fun to collect and free for the taking, beach stones are objects of contemplation, beauty, and sentiment. This exquisite volume-at once a gorgeous art book and a nature guide-presents more than 200 exceptional stones from around the world and describes the fascinating natural processes that produced them.
Photographer and installation artist Josie Iselin, who uses a flatbed scanner to generate her imagery, has arranged these stones with great artistry, and nature writer Margaret Carruthers yields their secrets, revealing, for instance, that a pebble from Maine was created 400 million years ago during the birth of a great mountain range. Art lovers and beachcombing spirits everywhere will cherish this gift book.
beach stones by josie Iselin beautifully photographed with detail and style. presentation of each stone is clean and presents the piece as a single jewel. Worth the price, just as a vehicle to peace and tranquility.
beautiful pictures I loved this book since I enjoy the beach so much. It would go great with the book "Beach Lover's Guide to the Perfect Sandwich" After all you can work up quite an appetite checking out all the beautiful stones on the beach.
Beach stones This is a unique and valuable book...showing stones that may be found on beaches around the world..her artistic way of laying out the positioning of these stones in the book is a treasure !Susan
Beach Stones by Josie Iselin, Margaret Carruthers This book has beautiful images and interesting text. A good book for people who love the beach. It would make a good coffee table book. I was disappointed in the lack of depth offered by the text. I was hoping for more in depth geologic information, and a greater variety of stones pictured. This is not the book for you if you want an in depth look at geologic process and the mineral composition of stones that wash up on the beach.
Great addition for any rock collection! My Husband and I loved this book so much that we bought 3 and gave away 2 as gifts.
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