The book · Hardcover
Fernweh
The deep pain and longing for a place you have never been.
Every photograph from the edges of the map, gathered into one book. Made to be left open on a table.
Hardcover136 pages155 photographs
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Look inside
Leaf through every page
Cover to cover: all 136 pages, exactly as they’re printed. Use the arrows, your keyboard, or swipe.
Every photograph
155 frames, ten chapters
Tap any photograph to open the book at its page.
What’s inside
A book you live with
- The happy ghost. The travel document and the essay that started it all.
- Ten chapters. From the bottom of the world to what we carry home.
- Twelve photographs that run across both pages.
- The plates. Every frame indexed by number, title and page.
The details
- Format
- Landscape hardcover · pages 29.7 × 21 cm (11.7 × 8.3 in)
- Size
- About 30.5 × 21.5 × 1.8 cm closed (12 × 8.5 × 0.7 in)
- Weight
- About 1.1 kg (2.4 lb)
- Pages
- 136 pages · 155 photographs · 12 two-page spreads
- Paper
- 200gsm gloss photo paper: heavy, bright, deep blacks
- Printing
- HP Indigo, high-definition colour
- Cover
- Rigid boards, wraparound print, matte laminate
- Binding
- PUR bound: the strongest glue binding, opens wide and stays together
- Edition
- Open edition
- Made
- Printed to order, about 5 days · shipped from the nearest of our labs (US, UK, EU, Australia)
- Shipping
- Free worldwide
- Returns
- Arrived damaged or wrong? Free replacement or refund · details
These photographs are what remains.
$129
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