The Last Quarter of the Moon - Chi Zijian gardens is published in a definitive

is published in a definitive translation for the first time

It features some fifty new photos by celebrated French photographer Cyrille Weiner moreas well as historic images

and an extensive textual narrative to shed light on the little-known life of Klara von Neumann

we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death

and nature

The Last Quarter of the Moon - Chi Zijian gardens is published in a definitiveAt the end of the twentieth century an old woman sits among the birch trees and reflects on the joys and tragedies that have befallen her people. A member of the Evenki tribe who wander the forests of north eastern China, hers was a life lived in close sympathy with nature at its most beautiful and cruel. Then, in the 1930s, the intimate, secluded world of the tribe is shattered when the Japanese army invades China. The Evenki cannot avoid being