Faces on Places takes us into the fascinating world of mythical and historical persons and icons that have been watching over Toronto and its inhabitants for centuries. If you look up with author Terry Murray, you'll see beyond glass and steel and stone to spy Gargoyles, Griffins, Dragons, Angels, Portraits of Important Personages (and Caricatures of those same folk). Murray has photographed over sixty Toronto buildings, interviewed architects, stone carvers, and building occupants, and scoured archives for original architectural plans, to discover who these creatures are, and why they exist. Faces on Places is organized by type of sculpture, and contains street addresses and maps for suggested walking tours. It is an elegant and reliable guide to the city's most silent and intriguing citizens.
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Awards: Alcuin Society's Annual Awards for Excellence in Book Design, Reference (2006): 3rd place, Ingrid Paulson
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Terry Murray is an award-winning journalist and photographer specializing in medicine. For more than twenty years she has been on the staff of the The Medical Post, a weekly newspaper for Canadian doctors. Her articles and photographs have also appeared in numerous general interest publications in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and she has contributed gargoyle photographs and articles to the New York Carver website. Terry Murray is a sought-after speaker and instructor, known for the excellent content of her presentations as well as her easy manner, quick wit, and warmth. Since taking up gargoyle-hunting ten years ago, she has developed a permanent crick in her neck from looking up.
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After reading this book, walking down a street will never be the same!
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The history and legacy behind gargoyles will create a new hobby for anybody. The reasons and mystery and good luck/bad luck that is fascination requiring this figures will stop you in your walking tracks when you spot one - and chances are it was always right there to see, without you even noticing it. Expand your fun with the history of there figurines, and you'll probably insist on having one on the next house you have built. Jim Dahle
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