Throughout their childhood in the dusty cane fields of Saint Michael, Isabel and her older brother Isaias have been inseparable. Life is simple, and for Isabel, happiness is playing by the empty fountain in the village square. But when Isaias runs away to become a musician, promising to return, Isabel's life changes irrevocably.

Isabel was born with the gift and curse of 'seeing farther'. When drought and war grip their land, her brother Isaias joins an exodus to a teeming, labyrinthine city in the south. Soon Isabel follows him only to discover that Isaias has disappeared.

On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano.

Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, fourteen-year-old Isabel was born with the gift and curse of 'seeing farther'. When drought and war grip the backlands, her brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming city in the south. Soon Isabel must follow, forsaking the only home she's ever known.

Explores various aspects of the printed form, from single page to commercial package. This book features projects that combine an awareness of process, materials, and creativity. It looks at proportions, materials, printing, folding, and binding, and explores tear-proof plastic paper, gelling agents, luminescent inks, and single-screw bindings.

There is an enormous wealth of materials and of print and manufacturing processes available to designers. These opportunities are rarely fully explored. This title explores these diverse possibilities, providing insights into how they can be stretched, skewed and subverted to produce original results.

Piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife and his life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a piano. So begins the journey of Edgar across Europe, the Red Sea, India, Burma and at last into the remoteness of the Shan States.