The World Encyclopedia of Flags & Heraldry
by Alfred Znamierowski
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A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty and the choices we make that define us for life, from the author of the Giller Prize finalist Summer Gone A young man travels to Paris in 1968, where a series of unlikely events take him to a tiny village in Italyâe"and the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident show more in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boyâe(tm)s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole. Oliver Hughson falls in love with wild, bohemian Anna over the course of one glorious summer in Italy. Bound by a sense of responsibility to his adoptive parents back home in Canada, however, he leaves her, an act he will regret for the rest of his life. Narrated by the daughter he never knew he had, The Figures of Beauty is a love story of mythic proportions. Through luck, fate and great good fortune, Oliver found the one place and the one woman he should never have left. This is the story of him trying to find his way back. show lessTags
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This volume is actually just a combination of two previously published volumes by two different authors--one on heraldry, obviously, the other on vexillology (world flags). The information in the two separate books is very useful, however, and they are both excellent resources. Owning the combined volume has one particular advantage--when it was published, it was updated to reflect the latest world flags. Considering how often the geopolitical scene shifts these days, though, it may already no longer be accurate at the time of writing this review.
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- Canonical title
- The World Encyclopedia of Flags & Heraldry
- Alternate titles
- The World Encyclopedia of Flags & Heraldry: An International History of Heraldry and its Contemporary uses Together with the Definitive Guide to National Flags, Banners, Standards and Ensigns
- Original publication date
- 1999: The World Encyclopedia of Flags (Alfred Znamierowski) (Alfred Znamierowski); 2002: The Complete Book of Heraldry (Steven Slater) (Steven Slater); 2007: The World Encyclopedia of Flags and Heraldry (Znamierowski and Slater) (Znamierowski and Slater)
- Original language
- English
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
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