Research Catalog

Title

Empire : a journey to the remote edges of the British Empire / Jon Tonks.

Author

Tonks, Jon

Publication

• Stockport, England : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013.
• ©2013

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Details

Description

187 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles; 26 cm

Summary

INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHERS. Jon Tonks spent up to a month at a time in each territory, travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low-lit airstrips and a long voyage aboard the last working Royal Mail Ship. Some 400 rolls of film, 24 flights and 32 days at sea later, the resulting work creates an insight into these distant places that resonate with a sense of Britishness which is remarkably recognisable yet inescapably strange. Tonks has photographed the people, the landscapes and the traces of the past embedded within each territory and through short texts, which combine history and anecdote, he tells the story of these remote and remarkable islands. His motivation is neither political or nostalgic, the images arising primarily from his curiosity about the lives of these distant lands that remain very firmly British.

Subject

• National characteristics, British
• Travel
• Ascension > Pictorial works
• Tristan da Cunha > Pictorial works
• Saint Helena > Pictorial works
• Falkland Islands > Pictorial works
• Ascension Island
• Saint Helena
• South Orkney Islands > Falkland Islands
• Tristan da Cunha

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

• Maps on endpapers.

Call Number

MFX (Tonks) 14-7885

ISBN

• 9781907893490
• 1907893490

OCLC

878789965

Author

Tonks, Jon, author, photographer.

Title

Empire : a journey to the remote edges of the British Empire / Jon Tonks.

Publisher

Stockport, England : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013.

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

MFX (Tonks) 14-7885