Enchanted Lands: Roland and Sabrina Michaud

Product Description In their own eloquent words and stunning photographs, Roland and Sabrina Michaud narrate a lifetime of travel, adventure, and discovery in the world’s most remote regions. Roland and Sabrina Michaud, now in their eighties, have spent most of their lives together exploring Africa and Asia. Their travels have taken them to far-flung places, including Yemen, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. Throughout their journeys Roland and Sabrina photographed and wrote about what they saw. This breathtaking account of their travels features nearly 500 color images that capture, with sensitivity, curiosity, and delight, the people they met and the landscapes they traversed. Organized into sections that focus on particular regions, the book takes readers to the monasteries and villages of China, the tents of Mongolian nomads, and the black rocks of northern Pakistan. Many of their images are indelible studies of faces: the weathered faces of Kazakhstani men, their heads wrapped in turbans; or the shy veiled face of an Iranian mother nursing her child atop a camel as she travels from summer pastures to the Persian Gulf. Throughout the book the Michauds’ eloquent commentary gives context to these remarkable images and offers their uniquely humane perspective on what it means to encounter incredible beauty, harsh landscapes, and unfamiliar surroundings. Best of all, it describes the pleasures of meeting people whose joys, sorrows, and struggles we all share. Review "The mystery and magic of the world fascinated travellers Roland and Sabrina Michaud, whose itchy feet have kept them exploring ... Africa and Asia since the 1950s. Intense and sensitive, the photographs in the bookEnchanted Lands (Prestel) display curiosity about the peoples and places the Michauds met."-The Toronto Star"Roland and Sabrina Michaud have been married since 1958. For 60 years the couple has spent their time together traveling all over the world, including a trip that included driving across Asia for four years straight. . . . Now both in their eighties, they've documented a multitude of trips in their picture archives and have published 20 books. Their most recent,Enchanted Lands, is a compilation of some of their favorite journeys from over the years."-Business Insider About the Author Roland and Sabrina Michaud have been travelling together since they met in the late 1950s. Their work has been exhibited throughout the world, and published in National Geographic. They have written more than twenty books about their journeys to different parts of the world. They live in Paris.