{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-waterfalls-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Waterfalls (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Waterfalls is a large-format coffee table book about waterfalls, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. Most show a fall in wild country, from rainforest to a snowbound valley; others come close to the water, the rock and the ice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with plunges: a fall dropping from the rim of a curved bowl of sheer cliffs into a deep round pool, and a slender fall streaming off a moorland cliff in a long white plume of spray. Then broad falls and great cataracts: a river pouring over a long, ragged ledge in one white sheet, the deep crescent of a fall bending far back upstream, and a low, wide fall spilling in white threads among small wooded islands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen slender falls, fans and threads: water sliding down dark rock in long smooth strands, a fall widening into a white triangle over rust-brown rock, and a sheer film of water down a fern-hung cliff. Then cascades and tiers: falls one below another under snowfields, and a broad river falling in steps into a canyon of banded rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the rock: a fall over a cliff of dark basalt columns, water spilling over natural terraces of cream stone into small turquoise pools, and a smooth dome of pale grey granite with a dark wet streak where the water runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen canyons and the sea: a fall into a slot canyon of smooth, curving red sandstone, water pouring off a green sea cliff onto wave-washed sand, and a small fall spilling over dark rocks onto a beach of black sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end, the turning year: a fall in full flood between banks of melting snow, maples in red, orange and gold, meltwater pouring from beneath the edge of a glacier, and tea-brown water among purple heather. Then snow and ice: a cliff hung with a sheet of blue-white ice, long icicles beside the falling water, folds of clear ice glowing deep blue, and twigs coated in thick white rime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about waterfalls and the rock, water and light around them rather than about the pictures: how a plunge pool is worn out at the foot of a fall, how black sand can form where hot lava meets the sea, why a rainbow made by moonlight usually looks white, and the sound, too low to hear, that a waterfall gives off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68148000424240,"sku":"9671456004341","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004341.jpg?v=1792623956","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-waterfalls-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}