San Antonio's Spanish Missions: A Portrait
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San Antonio's Spanish Missions: A Portrait
By (Author) Lewis F. Fisher
Photographs by Mike Osborne
Foreword by Rev. David Garcia
Trinity University Press,U.S.
Trinity University Press,U.S.
4th January 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Architecture: religious buildings
Architecture
Conservation of buildings and building materials
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
History of the Americas
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 228mm, Height 304mm
708g
Description
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. Osbornes color photographs range from interior views of the Alamo to a mariachi mass at San Jos to a composite of rifle portholes in Espadas bastion, with other dramatic views of the missions and related landmarks in between.
Author Bio
Celebrated San Antonio historian Lewis F. Fisher, whose Maverick Publishing Company was acquired by Trinity University Press in 2015, has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio's Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former member of the San Antonio River Commission, he has written numerous books himself, including Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio, winner of the 2015 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, republished in a second edition, and Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend. Fisher has received numerous local, state, and national writing awards and was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.
