"Embark on a visual and informative journey through the enchanting landscapes and cultural treasures of Belgium with Joseph E. Morris in 'Beautiful Europe: Belgium.' This travel guide, crafted with a keen eye and rich descriptions, offers readers an immersive experience of Belgium's historical cities, picturesque countryside, and artistic heritage. As Morris explores the unique charm of Belgium, 'Beautiful Europe: Belgium' is more than a travelogue—it's a literary and visual celebration that captures the essence of this European gem. Join Morris on this literary and pictorial expedition where each page unveils a new facet of Belgium's allure, making 'Beautiful Europe: Belgium' an essential read for those captivated by tales of European travel and the timeless beauty of Belgium."

"Embark on a visual and informative journey through the enchanting landscapes and cultural treasures of Belgium with Joseph E. Morris in 'Beautiful Europe: Belgium.' This travel guide, crafted with a keen eye and rich descriptions, offers readers an immersive experience of Belgium's historical cities, picturesque countryside, and artistic heritage. As Morris explores the unique charm of Belgium, 'Beautiful Europe: Belgium' is more than a travelogue—it's a literary and visual celebration that captures the essence of this European gem. Join Morris on this literary and pictorial expedition where each page unveils a new facet of Belgium's allure, making 'Beautiful Europe: Belgium' an essential read for those captivated by tales of European travel and the timeless beauty of Belgium."

Experience the beauty of Belgium, a unique country in the heart of Europe, with more castles per capita than France and 3 distinct cultures within its tiny borders.Beautiful Belgium is a collection of photography and digital artwork by Alison Cornford-Matheson, containing 110 pages of photos of Brussels, Flanders, and Wallonia, including dramatic landscapes, iconic architecture, and Belgium's characteristic quirkiness. Alison, a Canadian travel writer and photographer, lived in Belgium for over 10 years and drew inspiration from the hidden charms and beauty of the country. Beautiful Belgium combines stunning travel photography, of vivid, picturesque locations in Belgium, with a selection of artistic works, her Forgotten Postcard digital art collages, some of which have never been in print before.Beautiful Belgium is the perfect souvenir of your time spent in this unique country and makes a perfect gift for the Belgium-lover in your life.

"[...] It is not merely in its quality of unredeemed and absolute flatness that the great fen country of Flanders is so strongly reminiscent of the great fen country of the Holland parts of Lincolnshire. Each of these vast levels is equally distinguished by the splendour and conspicuousness of its ancient churches. Travelling by railway between Nieuport and Dixmude, you have on every side of you, if the day be clear, a prospect of innumerable towers and spires, just as you have if you travel by railway between Spalding and Sleaford, or between Spalding and King's Lynn. The difference, perhaps, is that the Lincolnshire churches present finer architectural feature, and are built of stone, floated down in barges, by dyke or fen, from the famous inland quarries of Barnack, in Northamptonshire; whilst most of those in Flanders are built of local brick, though the drums of the piers and the arches are often of blue limestone. It is remarkable, certainly, that these soaring spires should thus chiefly rise to eminence in a setting of dead, flat plain. It may well be, indeed, as some have suggested, that the character of architecture is unconsciously determined by the type of surrounding scenery; that men do not build spires in the midst of mountains to compete with natural sublimity that they cannot hope to emulate, but are emboldened to express in stone and mortar their[...]".

Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature. Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text, this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. Using such techniques as microphotography, time-lapse photography, and infrared thermal imaging, The Beauty of Chemistry shows us how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes, the science of champagne, the colors of flowers, and other wonders of nature and technology. We see the marvelous configurations of chemical gardens; the amazing transformations of evaporation, distillation, and precipitation; heat made visible; and more.

It needs, indeed, an effort of the imagination at the moment of writing to think of Belgium as in any sense a component part of Beautiful Europe. The unhappy cockpit of the Continent at the actual hour is again in process of accomplishing its frightful destiny-no treaty, or scrap of paper, is potent to preserve this last, and weakest, of all the nations of Western Europe from drinking to the dregs the cup of ruin and desolation. Tragic indeed in the profoundest sense-in the sense of Aristotle-more tragic than the long ruin of the predestined house of Oedipus-is this accumulated tragedy of a small and helpless people, whose sole apparent crime is their stern determination to cling at any cost to their plighted word of honour.