8.5 x 8.75"; 56 pages. Fonts: Body text is Journal; initial cap is ExPonto. The artist's handwriting made into a font named Dewie Guru. Printed using an Indigo Press on Mohawk Superfine paper with pages of varying heights. Hand-bound into a leather folio opening in the reverse. Title stamped in gold foil. Bessie Smith Moulton: "A montage of drawings, photographs, and journal entries illustrate my travels through Tunisia nd the Sahara; presenting an uncommon view of its colorful history and people: Like the multicolored pieces that make up the mosaics dotting its landscape, Tunisia itself has a rich and varied composition. Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Spaniards, Turks, and more recently the French contributed to its unique character, although the Arabs and Phoenicians provided the corner-stones of its national identity. "Perched at the top of North Africa, below the Strait of Sicily, crossroads between Europe and Muslim North Africa, Tunisia could not escape being drawn into the turbulent history of the Mediterranean. "Its own history reads like a colorful novel: jousting Berbers, dressed in robes the color of red earth; an army traversing the Alps on elephant back; holy prayers echoing from the top of minarets; the unrivaled color and patterns of a Berber woman's dress, tattoos and rugs; the mysterious contents of thousands of urns at the Tophet of Tanit in Carthage; sacred prostitutes; holy marabouts; people called 'troglodytes;' subterranean Roman villas serendipitously protecting the original, early mosaics which tell us tales like the pages of a picture book; desert caravans; snake charmers; souks and mosques; Roman baths; curse tablets; the coliseum at El Jem." Pages of varying heights and widths to allow images to interact among the pages. Hand-bound into a leather folio opening in the reverse, with a flap to protect it from the dust of the desert, in the tradition of an Arabic book. |
