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Book specifications:

112 pages with 270 colour photographs
ISBN: 0-9531995-5-X

Retail price £15.00

Size 305mm x 305mm - hardback

Limited edition slipcased edition is available from the publisher direct or the distributor, please email for details.

First published in December 2003 by Guy Woodland as a Cities500 project in association with Bargepole Press.

Waterfront - World Heritage City

The British maritime city of Liverpool is currently European Capital of Culture in waiting for 2008. The majestic Waterfront is arguably the city's most evocative and best known scenic site, while the iconic and equally famous Liver Birds are almost a legend to seafarers, travellers and millions of emigrants to 'new worlds' across the globe.

This is the first detailed photographic essay book devoted to that glorious river frontage, capturing all the changing moods and shapes that make it easily and instantly recognisable anywhere in the world. In the summer of 2004 UNESCO conferred on Liverpool the status of World Heritage City, largely for the grandeur and historical legacy of this waterfront.

This eye-catching book - featuring unique photographs by award winning photographer Guy Woodland with a special foreword essay by writer and journalist Lew Baxter - showcases the magnificence of the regal buildings that stand as sentinels over the often turbulent but consistently magical River Mersey and the City of Liverpool. It depicts the well-loved and fabulous neo-classical structures that once housed Britain's mighty shipping lines, including the Port of Liverpool Building and the Liver Building, or the astounding Albert Dock complex created by Jesse Hartley; now a 'listed' building complex under the auspices of English Heritage.