San Antonio's Spanish Missions: A Portrait

By Lewis F. Fisher

Book Overview

This elegant coffee-table volume displays more than 100 color photographs by architectural photographer Mike Osborne, providing a distinctive contemporary portrait of the five mission complexes, now partly restored, partly still in ruins. One, better known as the Alamo, is a memorial to its defenders in 1836. The four others comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Each section begins with a dramatic 19th-century image. Osborne's color photographs range from interior views of the Alamo to a mariachi mass at San Jos to a composite of rifle portholes in Espada's bastion, with other dramatic views of the missions and related landmarks in between.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595347100
• ISBN13: 9781595347107
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Maverick Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.9"