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In 1991, Hilary Emberton left the comfort of her daily U.K. grind and ventured out into the world. Over the next two decades, she explored and experienced the beauty, diversity, and commonality of people and cultures around the globe. Emberton has gathered those years into a beautiful collection of photographs and essays to reveal the essential moments and memories of her journey. Through striking imagery depicting people, wildlife, landscapes, and architecture, Emberton's keen eye defines the elements of time, place, and subject. Accompanying stories read like intimate journals with writing as fluid, colorful, and poetic as the pictures themselves. From the soulful chocolate-eyed gaze of a mountain gorilla in Rwanda, to the vibrant costumes of Bhutanese dancers and rippling patterns of terraced rice fields in Vietnam, Emberton showcases the essence of locale.
At the core of this venture is the sentiment that "travel opens your mind and heart." Whether motorbiking in Nepal or absorbing views aboard the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway, Emberton plies readers with knowledge, insight, humor, and reverence, while gloriously expanding our global horizons. Clearly this globe-trotter connects with individuals throughout her travels. She shares a friendly cup of tea with a Turkish woman, draws laughter and stories from a family in Iran, and revels in the generosity of the Taiwanese people, even amid the gloom and pollutants weighing the country down.
Emberton's An Invitation To Travel is pure enticement and aptly named. It is a joy to turn each page and share in the author's private, yet seemingly universal trek. As a timeless gift of both photographic and narrative art, this is a work to be revisited again and again. Not only does it ignite our sense of wanderlust, but in more contemplative moments ideally, it will stir thoughts of human connection far beyond the borders we commonly traverse.
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