La Librairie de La Pomme Verte

A beautiful illustration by Vincent Mahé, for a book entitled ’La Librairie de La Pomme Verte’.

(via hoveringcat)

Una donna ragionevole, un gatto...

Una donna ragionevole, un gatto che passi tra i libri...

Un libro nella neve

Ho tentato di capire di che libro si tratta. Invano. Forse qualche lettore più competente di me è in grado di riconoscerlo (cliccate sopra l'immagine per zoommare). Please, let me now sono curioso come una scimmia di sapere!

Book in the snow

Typhoon-hit Vanuatu schools

Teachers in Port Vila, Vanuatu dry books under the direct sun after Cyclone Pam ravaged the Pacific island nation (on March 2015).

Port Vila, Vanatu. Via Save Children

Parisian scenes around 1900 Idyllic scene in a public park: woman reading a book, 1905. Vintage property of ullstein bild

Boy reading in a corner of Hà Nội, 1993

Boy reading in a corner of Hà Nội, 1993

Woman reading in fire escape window

Greenwich Village, New York (woman reading in fire escape window), 1963.
Photo by André Kertész

The Leadenhall Market

The Leadenhall Market, London

Books hanging in Leadenhall Market, London

The girl who rescues books in Gaza

Modern heroes: the girl in Gaza who is looking for her books.

Merci Used Book Café, Paris

Wall of books at the Merci Used Book Café in Paris.

Temporary bookstore in Torino

Torino, temporary bookstore in Piazza Vittorio Veneto.
Photo by Marta Favro


Via The Lonely Walkers

A street map made up from the titles of over 600 books

A street map made up from the titles of over 600 books from the history of English Literature (and a few favourites from further afield). The Map includes classics such as Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Bleak House, Vanity Fair and Wuthering Heights as well as 20th and 21st Century works such as The Waste Land, To the Lighthouse, Animal Farm, Slaughterhouse 5, The Catcher in the Rye, The Wasp Factory, Norwegian Wood and The Road.


via http://www.wearedorothy.com/shop/book-map-original-open-edition

Henri Roger-Viollet, 1893

Madness of war

"Coverage of the war in Syria is rightly focused on the human cost, but there are cultural casualties too" says journalist Kevin Rushby.

Among them is the disruption of the ancient city of Aleppo. Following, the remaining of the Waqfiyya Library of the Great Omayyad Mosque: all the collections of old books and manuscripts were burnt down when the library was set on fire.



link: http://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/bearing-witness-the-destruction-of-the-great-city-of-aleppo-part-two/

The vertical horizons of Hong Kong

Vertical Horizons, photographic journey between the buildings of Hong Kong by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze