The mystery and beauty of ZANZIBAR is captured in this latest LOOKBOOK, the second in a new series of collectable photographic books that showcase some of the world’s most frequently misunderstood regions. Photographed by New Zealander Faie Davis, ZANZIBAR provides an entertaining and sympathetic insight into this ancient island off the East Coast of Africa.

Extract: The roads are blessedly devoid of traffic and you can be forgiven for thinking that you have the island all to yourself. …To drive through the dense green foliage which positively glows after the rain, past little clutches of houses perched on rich terracotta-coloured soil, is truly beautiful. The very simplicity is beguiling. Against this backdrop, woman scurry about, their heads piled impossibly high with every conceivable sort of produce as they disappear and emerge from the jungle, like lines of jewel-coloured ants.

"To possess a unique eye as a photographer may be likened to having an original voice as a writer. Alas, my writer's voice cannot begin to compare in beauty and originality with these lyrical and passionate photographs by Faie Davis. The accompanying words are sparse, well chosen, pleasing and entirely appropriate. Simply Stunning!" ~ Bryce Courtenay.

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In the new book, Serenissima: Venice in Winter, Frank Van Riper and Judith Goodman provide a stunning combination of fine art and journalistic photography twinned with lyrical text to capture the visual magic that occurs when "the most serene republic" reclaims itself as a living, breathing city and once more becomes a place "of water-filled streets..velvet shadows and footsteps echoing off paving stones in the post-midnight silence..."

Six years in the making and shot entirely in black and white, Serenissima: Venice in Winter combines brilliant architectural imagery with documentary photography in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and the great Italian photojournalist Gianni Berengo Gardin. Frank Van Riper's text shows the same literary mastery that won him a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and reflects the dreamlike quality of the photographs, while also acknowledging the mystery and magic that Venice is famous for.

The aim of this volume is the pure celebration of the majesty of Rome; Mimmo Jodice devoted himself to photographing Rome over a two-year period, between 2005 and 2007.

The volume includes ninety-two pictures revealing all the different souls of the city, from the ancient ruins, to the modern city, going through the glory of the Renaissance and the splendours of the Baroque. These photographs can help the reader to discover the real essence of the eternal and unchangeable city.

Text in English and Italian.

For Marco Paoluzzo the 'North' means above all Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the black landscapes, the rigors of the weather and the feeling of loneliness accompanying the idea of the end of the world. He returns again and again on his journeys to his favourite places where each time in the magic of the light his pictures there became a little simpler, clearer and more personal.

Text in English, German and French.

A beautiful, intimate portrait of Belgium, the homeland of photographer Stephan Vanfleteren, offering a visual testament to the country and its people at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one. Stephan's photographs document the phenomena of everyday life in Belgium.

Stephan Vanfleteren lives and works in his native Belgium. He is one of the country's finest photographers. His work has been exhibited and acclaimed internationally.

The Greek explorer Pytheas gave the most northern part of Europe a name: Ultima Thule. Around the year 350 BC he travelled to the furthest northern reaches humanly possible at that time. His Ultima Thule became a magical land: a land where the sun never set.

The Dutch photographer Jan Vermeer has successfully captured the entire North Pole region in all its splendour. He travelled over 15,000 kilometres to achieve this, photographing endless landscapes, spectacular northern lights, colourful birds, and naturally the most important of the Arctic's animal inhabitants, including the polar bear.

The photography featured in this over-size book makes an indelible impression on the reader. Fifteen short texts by Frieda van Essen, tell the story of the historic North Pole expeditions and the artists who were part of them.

Antarctica is a unique photo book in which Jan Vermeer stunningly reawakens us to the white world of Antarctica. The book forms an impressive photographic documentary of Vermeer's visits to this extraordinary area.

In Antarctica 250 photographs bear witness to the vastness of the landscape and the multiplicity of life that is found there. The accompanying texts tell the story of the expeditions made over the last 1400 years.

The photographer Marco Paoluzzo has travelled through Ethiopia six times and on his forays discovered a country full of light and humanity whose beauty is unforgettable. A country in which so many different cultures coexist, that one must really speak of several Ethiopias - this books reflects a journey through the heart of a country, that although unrecognized and unnoticed, gleams like a black diamond.

Text in English, German and French.

The photographer set out four times with a rental car on endless journeys back and forth through the states in order to discover the real America, the country behind the glittering advertisement shots. America Blues presents the photographic distillation of these journeys: Pictures with a strange melancholic atmosphere, a mixture of dream and disappointment, loneliness and cliché.

Text in English, German and French.

Amphibians appeared on earth 360 million years ago, as the first four-footed animals and pioneers in the conquest of dry land. The water, land or tree-dwelling frogs, toads, newts and salamanders of our childhood are but pallid representatives of an infinitely varied family.

Exquisite colour photographs of some of the world's most surprisingly beautiful creatures. Photographer Paul Starosta has captured on film incredible frogs and amphibians of all shapes, sizes and colours, illustrating fascinating creatures with surreal bodies painted in outlandish colours.