Rooms in which you want to live forever in photographs Will Praysa.V today funds the richest libraries in the world amount to millions of books, but they still have easy. It is difficult to withstand the competition of the Internet, e-readers, widely available information. However, some libraries are struggling to keep the atmosphere of the temple of knowledge.
It is about such stacks described in the book of British Professor James Campbell's "library." Campbell, 80, visited the oldest and most modern libraries in twenty countries around the world to describe their most detailed history. He was accompanied by photographer Will Pryce, who helped create beautiful photo illustrations.
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Website have compiled these frames of this project, breathtaking. Go to the library, please be good books for the weekend.
Library Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
Library Zhuanina, Coimbra, Portugal
The library of Strahov Monastery, Prague, Czech Republic
Mafra Palace Library, Portugaliya
Merton College Library, Oxford, UK
Library Malatestiana, Cesena, Italy
The Tripitaka Koreana, Haeinsa, South Korea
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA
Tianyi Pavilion, Ningbo, Kitay
Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, Italy
Bodleian Library, Oxford, Velikobritaniya
Library Admontskogo abbey Admont, Avstriya
National Library of China, Beijing, Kitay
Library Palafoksiana, Puebla, Meksika
Library Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico, Meksika
Kordingtona Library, Oxford, Velikobritaniya
Library of St. Genevieve, Paris, Frantsiya
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