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Veteran biker and author Colette Coleman's guide lays out 50 of the most scenic and adventurous tours in Europe's most breathtaking locations.

Whether you are an experienced biker or just discovering the joys of touring, this is the perfect introduction to the most inspiring motorcycle routes in Europe. Packed with breathtaking photography and practical information, Great Motorcycle Tours of Europe contains everything you need to plan an unforgettable trip.

Motorcycle adventurer Colette Coleman takes you bend-by-bend along the narrowest passes and up the steepest climbs as you ride through some of the most impressive scenery in Europe. Experience the snowy peaks of Norway's Arctic Circle, head to the balmy French Riviera, ride through the valleys and peaks of the Italian Dolomites, tackle the twists and turns of Romania's Transfagarasan Highway and cruise down to the Aegean Sea.

Over 200 stunning images are accompanied by insightful commentary from an author who has been exploring the world by motorcycle for over 25 years. Each tour features a locator map together with a fact file giving practical information on the route's length and terrain (from rocky tracks to snowy roads), highlighting local colour such as sites, events and the wildlife you might encounter, and including a wide range of valuable tips that will enhance your ride.

This beautiful book is the definitive, all-purpose motorcycle reference, whether you are planning your own adventure or just enjoying some of the best views on the continent.

About the Author:

Colette Coleman has been riding bikes for 25 years over four continents and considers it the best form of transport on which to explore the globe. In 1995 Colette and her husband spent two years motorcycling overland from England to Australia, covering 15 countries and 40,000 kilometres. In 2007 she wrote Great Motorcycle Journeys of the World (New Holland), an inspirational guide to riding motorcycles around the globe. Colette has written articles for Summit hotels and resorts magazine, the Telegraph, Motorcycle Rider (BMF magazine), MCN and Honda Dream magazine.

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Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph.

Both series expand on the artist’s obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson’s unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, “all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson’s scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots.”

In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.

An intimate view into the lives of this celebrated bear family that draws thousands to Yellowstone each year hoping for even a glimpse.

The most famous population of grizzly bears in the world lives in the ecosystem that encompasses Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, and the most visible queen of all has been Jackson Hole Grizzly 399. During her long life, with cubs at her side, she has navigated the intersection between wilderness and people. Her harrowing journey has changed the way tens of millions of people around the globe think of both grizzlies and conservation.

Over the past two decades, legendary nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen has been tracking Grizzly 399 and her cubs, amassing more than one million photos along the way. Together with conservation writer Todd Wilkinson, Mangelsen returns with a new, long-awaited volume that brings the importance of 399 and the plight of American grizzlies into focus in a way that will move your heart and inspire you to join the army of advocates who want to keep this region of public lands, which belongs to all of us, forever wild.

About the Authors:

Thomas D. Mangelsen is considered one of the foremost living nature photographers in the world. Award-winning writer Todd Wilkinson has been an environmental journalist and author for 35 years. Anderson Cooper is a broadcast journalist and political commentator. He is the primary anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° and a correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes.

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Renowned photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen’s latest project focuses on a celebrated Yellowstone grizzly bear family, which he has been tracking and photographing for ten years. The grizzly bears of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks are the most famous wild bruins in the world. Millions of people and generations of travelers annually make special pilgrimages to the northern Rockies just to catch sight of these powerful, breathtaking animals. But like a lot of large predator populations on earth, grizzlies in the lower 48 states have struggled for survival. 

In Grizzly, renowned nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen and environmental writer Todd Wilkinson team up to tell the inspiring if sometimes harrowing story of a remarkable bear clan: Mother Grizzly 399 and her generations of offspring. While tracking this charismatic band of bears, Mangelsen has amassed an incomparable photographic portfolio that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of this celebrated bear family. The rescue of Yellowstone grizzlies ranks as one of the greatest feats of wildlife conservation.

WINNER 2016 - Outdoor Writers Association of America - Book of the Year

About the Author:

Thomas D. Mangelsen is among the most distinguished natural history photographers in the world, and his honors include being named Conservation Photographer of the Year by Nature’s Best Photography. His work has been published widely, including in National Geographic and American Photo, as well as exhibited in museums and galleries. Todd Wilkinson is a professional journalist and the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Science Under Siege: The Politicians’ War on Nature and Truth. Ted Turner, an entrepreneur and media mogul, has made his mark as one of the most influential philanthropists in the United States over the past several decades. His foundations are dedicated to securing a safer, healthier future for our planet by addressing wildlife conservation, among many other causes.

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With three-quarters of a century of firearms expertise, Gun Digest remains the most trusted firearms annual in print.

This 77th edition is a celebration of American manufacturing ingenuity. Our cover image proudly shows off products from three iconic Made-in-USA brands: Springfield Armory, Leupold Optics and Federal ammunition. That’s just a taste of what’s inside, including:

• The Forgotten .33 Winchester
• A Tribute 1911
• Browning X-Bolt Rifles: Evolving Toward Perfection
• Marlin 1895 SBL .45-70
• Ruger Precision Custom Shop Special

In addition to this, all your favourite sections are there: gun tests, firearms features, product roundups, ballistic tables and more… For true firearms enthusiasts, Gun Digest 2023 proves familiar as the smell of Hoppe’s No. 9 and as vital as a zeroed scope!

About the Editor:

Philip P. Massaro is the seventh editor of the Gun Digest annual, is a regular contributor to Gun Digest the Magazine and Cartridges of the World, and contributes to many different firearms and hunting publications. He has been an avid handloader for three decades, is a land surveyor by trade, a musician by choice, and is happiest in the wildest places on Earth.

Table of Contents:

John T. Amber Literary Award
Introduction: 77th Edition
About the Cover
FEATURES
Griffin & Howe: The Early Years — BY RICK HACKER
Scattergun Adventures — BY JOE COOGAN
The Forgotten .33 Winchester — BY SHANE JAHN
Federal Premium’s Centennial Anniversary — BY PHIL MASSARO
Five Blue-Collar Deer Guns — BY WILL BRANTLEY
Rethinking Rifling — BY C. RODNEY JAMES
.500 Jeffery, Ultimate Game Stopper — BY TOM TABOR
On Custom Guns — BY TOM TURPIN
Mastering the Double-Action Revolver — BY JIM WILSON
Double or Nothing — BY CRAIG BODDINGTON
A Gentleman’s Right … The Duelling Pistol — BY TERRY WIELAND
A Tribute 1911 — BY LENÉE LANDIS
The Case for Single-Shot Handguns — BY LARRY WEISHUHN
Elegant Arsenal for An Aging Handgun Hunter — BY DICK WILLIAMS
The M704 CRF Action — BY RON SPOMER
Bolt-Action Sporters of the Early 20th Century — BY PHIL SHOEMAKER
Chronology of Czech Bolt-Action Hunting Rifles — BY PIERRE VAN DER WALT
A Potpourri of Varmint Wildcats — BY STAN TRZONIEC
The Nepalese Gehendra Rifle — BY JIM DICKSON
The Emergency Gun — BY BOB CAMPBELL
Browning X-Bolt Rifles: Evolving Toward Perfection — BY MIKE DICKERSON
Sturmgewehr 44: The Storm and the Tempest — BY MIKE HASKEW
Pioneer Arms Polish PM 63C “Rak” — BY GEORGE LAYMAN
Are Bullets Too Sharp? — BY WAYNE VAN ZWOLL
Rimfire Revolution — BY MICHAEL SHEA
Handloading Economics — BY PHIL MASSARO
The Age of Chassis Rifle Systems — BY THOMAS GOMEZ
It Ain’t So, Mac! — BY WARREN PAGE

TESTFIRE
Stevens Model M-301 Turkey Gun — BY STEVE GASH
Ruger Precision Custom Shop Special — BY L.P. BREZNY
Marlin 1895 SBL .45-70 — BY ANDY LARSSON
Heritage Barkeep — BY AL DOYLE

ONE GOOD GUN
A Few Good Guns — BY PHIL MASSARO
Benelli 828U Trim Twenty! — BY COREY GRAFF
The Great .450 Ackley — BY TERRY WIELAND
The Underappreciated .356 Winchester — BY JIM HOUSE
A Well-Traveled Shotgun — BY NICK HAHN

REPORTS FROM THE FIELD
Rifles — BY WAYNE VAN ZWOLL
AR-Style Rifles — BY TODD WOODARD
Semi-Auto Pistols — BY ROBERT SADOWSKI
Revolvers & Others — BY SHANE JAHN
Shotguns — BY KRISTIN ALBERTS
Muzzleloaders — BY BOB CAMPBELL
Optics — BY JOE ARTERBURN
Airguns — BY JIM HOUSE
Ammunition — BY PHIL MASSARO
Reloading — BY PHIL MASSARO

RIFLES
Centerfire – Autoloaders
Centerfire – ARs
Centerfire – Levers & Slides
Centerfire – Bolt Actions
Centerfire – Single Shots
Drillings, Combination Guns, Double Rifles
Rimfire – Autoloaders
Rimfire – Bolt Actions & Single Shots
Competition – Centerfires & Rimfires

HANDGUNS
Autoloaders
Competition
Double-Action Revolvers
Single-Action Revolvers
Miscellaneous

SHOTGUNS
Autoloaders
Pumps
Over/Unders
Side-by-Sides
Bolt Actions, Single Shots & Lever Actions
Military & Police

BLACKPOWDER
Single-Shot Pistols
Revolvers
Muskets & Rifles

AIRGUNS
Handguns
Long Guns

BALLISTICS TABLES
Average Centerfire Rifle Cartridge Ballistics
Centerfire Handgun Cartridge Ballistics
Rimfire Ammunition Ballistics
Shotshell Loads

Guy Bourdin is one of four new titles being published this Spring in Thames & Hudson’s acclaimed ‘Photofile’ series.

Guy Bourdin (1928–1991) was a fashion photographer whose talent and strength of vision were apparent even in his earliest works. He shared Helmut Newton’s taste for controversy and stylization, but Bourdin’s formal daring and the narrative power of his images exceeded the bounds of conventional advertising photography. Shattering expectations and questioning boundaries, he set the stage for a new kind of fashion photography.

About the Author:

Gilles de Bure (1940-2013) was a journalist for publications including Glamour, Beaux Arts, and Technikart, among others, on subjects ranging from dance to architecture. He was responsible for the Current Affairs Gallery at the Center for Industrial Creation--Centre Pompidou and was the first director of the Grande Halle de la Villette.

A sassy and sumptuous look at hairstyles in fashion today, enriched by images of hair across cultures and through time

Fashion designers, photographers and stylists love the infinite possibilities of hair. It can define a look, embellish an outfit, show status, tribe or culture. Each hairstyle says something about who we are and where we belong.

This book celebrates the art of hair: braids, curls, loose hair, mohawks, chignons, coloured hair, wigs, crops. Fabulous images from the greatest names in fashion photography mix with rare and unseen archive pictures.

There are texts from stars of fashion (Daphne Guinness, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni), photography (David LaChapelle), and hairstyling (Laurent Philippon, Orlando Pita, Julien d’Ys), with a few offbeat commentaries: Yannick d’Is on working with Avedon, Veruschka on Ara Gallant, Patti Wilson on the Afro, Amanda Lepore on transsexual glamour.

There are celebrations of legendary fashion moments, such as Kate Moss’s first ever photoshoot, together with burlesque heroine Dita von Teese writing on Hollywood glamour, a street-level view of London’s Seventies punk scene, Vidal Sassoon in one of his last interviews, and beauty editor Kathy Phillips on blondes

This book will be a style classic, a bible for anyone in the profession, a must-have source of information and ideas, and pure pleasure for fashion addicts everywhere.

About the Author:

Laurent Philippon is an internationally renowned fashion hairstylist. He is creative consultant for Bumble and bumble [sic], for whom he has developed revolutionary hair-styling products. He works with the greatest fashion photographers and behind the scenes at the most important fashion shows in Paris, New York and around the world. Bumble and bumble is a New York-based hair salon with a huge following in the professional fashion world.

America’s first fashion magazine, Harper’s Bazaar has showcased the visions of legendary editors, photographers and stylists and featured the works of noted writers since 1867.

From its beginnings as a broadsheet aimed at the rising leisure class, the publication has since transformed into a magazine devoted to examining the lives of women through the lens of fashion. In celebration of the magazine’s 150th anniversary in 2017, Harper’s Bazaar: 150 Years captures the greats who have shaped the magazine over these decades.

Harper’s Bazaar: 150 Years includes the most iconic pieces of work from the magazine's archive: more than 150 photographs and covers and 50 text excerpts, including articles, poems and works of fiction.

Organised chronologically, the selections showcase the breadth of creativity and artistry that has been published in the pages of the magazine for more than a century and prove that Harper’s Bazaar is more than just a fashion magazine.

A fascinating look at one of the most groundbreaking publications in the world, this volume traces its colorful history and the important figures who have shaped it, influencing fashion -- and more broadly, culture -- decade after decade.

Harper's Bazaar has long been revered for its contributions to fashion, photography, and graphic design and has remained a cultural icon since 1867, showcasing the visions of legendary editors, photographers, and stylists - as well as works by notable literary writers and journalists. Based on the exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, this volume traces the magazine's story -- from visionary founding editor, Mary Louise Booth, to Glenda Bailey, who has helmed the magazine for the last two decades and is known for commissioning dazzling visual features that frame fashion in the context of contemporary pop culture and aesthetics.

Featuring groundbreaking work by the greats of fashion photography and designs by fashion luminaries, from Madeleine Vionnet and Cristobal Balenciaga to Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior and up to the present with Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Ford, and Alexander McQueen, just to name a few, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in fashion. The book goes on to profile eminent contributors who were instrumental in maintaining Bazaar's ongoing relevance including Diana Vreeland, Jean Cocteau, Dali, Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Truman Capote, and many others.

Organized chronologically, the selections showcase the breadth of creativity and artistry that has been published in the magazine for more than a century and prove that Harper's Bazaar is more than just a fashion magazine.

About the Author:

Marianne le Galliard is an independent art historian focusing on history of photography and modern art. Éric Pujalet-Plàa became curatorial attache for the fashion and textile department at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Olivier Gabet is the director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Glenda Bailey has been the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar since 2001.

A new collection from the award-winning Magnum photographer.

A master of colour-saturated images, Harry Gruyaert has roamed the world searching for the perfect light for more than forty years. His very intuitive and physical sense of place immerses the spectator in a world that borrows simultaneously from the cinematic universe and from that of the painter. Dissolving the boundaries between the exterior and interior, Between Worlds offers just such a sensory immersion.

No matter the setting, the country or the era, Gruyaert deploys a luminous alchemy suspended in time. Where are we? It doesn’t matter: in Gruyaert’s world, the pleasure of getting lost reigns.

About the Author:

Harry Gruyaert is renowned for his photographs of India, Morocco and Egypt as well as of the west of Ireland, and for his use of colour. He is a member of Magnum Photos, and his work has been exhibited widely. David Campany is a curator, writer and educator, based in London. He is the author of numerous books, including On Photographs and Harry Gruyaert: East/West, both published by Thames & Hudson.

A compact survey of the work of 20th-century photographer Helen Levitt, best known for her New York street photography.

A compact survey of the work of 20th-century photographer Helen Levitt, best known for her New York street photography.
Brooklyn-born photographer Helen Levitt (1913–2009) was an assistant to Walker Evans and a friend of Henri Cartier-Bresson, but forged her own path with fierce independence and endless curiosity about the world around her. She is best known for her street photography, capturing children at play on the streets of Depression-era New York and chalk drawings on walls, but she also cast her eye upon the adult world, seeking out moments of movement, transience and theatricality.

Following her first solo exhibition at MoMA in 1943, she devoted more than a decade to filmmaking, but returned to photography in the late 1950s and began to work in colour as well as black and white. Lyrical and witty, her images reveal the streets of New York as flowing with life and unexpected poetry.

About the Author:

Jean-François Chevrier is an art historian, art critic and exhibition curator. He is Professor in the History of Contemporary Art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Henri Cartier-Bresson's photography came to define the 20th century.

This book tells Henri Cartier-Bresson's life story through his images: all the major events from his youth to his death in 2004 are described, contextualized and analysed in the light of his photographic work.

From his early encounters with the Surrealists, his film work and his experiences in the Second World War, to the development of his own personal aesthetic, the concept of the decisive moment, and the foundation of Magnum Photos, his influence on the world has been profound and unforgettable.

This book offers an outstanding retrospective collection of the master of 20th-century photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson’s earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico through his postwar travels in Asia, the US, and Russia, and even include landscapes from the 1970s, when he retired his camera to pursue drawing. While his instinct for capturing what he called the decisive moments was unparalleled, as a photojournalist Cartier-Bresson was uniquely concerned with the human impact of historic events. In his photographs of the liberation of France from the Nazis, the death of Gandhi, and the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Cartier-Bresson focused on the reactions of the crowds rather than the subjects of the events. And while his portraits of Sartre, Giacometti, Faulkner, Capote, and other artists are iconic, he gave equal attention to those forgotten by history: a dead resistance fighter lying on the bank of the Rhine, children playing alongside the Berlin Wall, and a eunuch in Peking’s Imperial Court. Divided into six thematic sections, the book presents the photographs in spare double-page spreads. In a handwritten note included at the end of the book, Cartier-Bresson writes, »In order to give meaning to the world, one must feel involved in what one singles out through the viewfinder.« His work shows how he has been able to capture the decisive moment with such extreme humility and profound humanity.

About the Author:

Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in 1908, began his career by studying painting before discovering photography in the early 1930s. In 1947 he founded the legendary cooperative agency Magnum Photos together with Robert Capa, David Seymour, William Vandivert and George Rodger. Cartier-Bresson left Magnum Photos in 1974 to devote himself to drawing and painting until his death in 2004. He is still considered one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century.

The coronation of George VI on 12 May 1937 was one of the biggest media events of the interwar period. While other photographers focused on the new King, his family and the ceremonial splendour of the day, Henri Cartier-Bresson turned his lens on the crowds that gathered in the streets of London to watch the pageantry.

In a witty reversal of the expected order of proceedings, he shows us ordinary people of all ages and walks of life, some climbing on monuments or each other's shoulders, others straining to get a better view with cardboard periscopes and mirrors on sticks. A few even slump on the ground, the festivities having proved too much. Presented alongside contemporary news clippings from around the world, these remarkable images reflect Cartier-Bresson's unmistakeable photographic eye and capture the British public at a unique historical moment.

About the Authors:

Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in 1908, began his career by studying painting before discovering photography in the early 1930s. In 1947 he founded the legendary cooperative agency Magnum Photos together with Robert Capa, David Seymour, William Vandivert and George Rodger. Cartier-Bresson left Magnum Photos in 1974 to devote himself to drawing and painting until his death in 2004. He is still considered one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century.

Clément Chéroux is director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. He has also held senior curatorial positions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

This is a stunning collection of photographs - many never before published - celebrating the remarkable talent of Herb Ritts.

"Herb Ritts" traces the life and career of the iconic photographer through a compelling selection of both renowned and previously unpublished, photographs and two insightful essays.

Herb Ritts (1952-2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for distinctive images of fashion models, nudes, and celebrity portraits.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts was sought out by leading fashion designers such as Armani, Gianfranco Ferre, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Valentino, and Versace, as well as magazine editors from "GQ", "Rolling Stone", and "Vanity Fair", among others, to lend glamour to their products and layouts.

Largely self-taught, Ritts developed his own style, one that often made use of the California light and landscape and helped to separate his work from his New York-based peers.

From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in 2002, Ritts' ability to create photographs that successfully bridged the gap between art and commerce was not only a testament to the power of his imagination and technical skill, but also marked the synergistic union between art, popular culture, and business that followed in the wake of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s