A journey along the Great Wall in the past and present, this landmark volume offers an extraordinary portrait of perhaps the world's most famous structure. Carrying his camera and a file of vintage photographs--the earliest dating from 1871--author-photographer William Lindesay traveled across Northern China for three years, searching for settings where the Great Wall could be examined in the past and present, side by side. The result, "The Great Wall Revisited," presents seventy-two of the most elucidating then- and-now comparisons. This glossy dossier opens out as an extraordinary journey from the Jade Gate in northwest China's Gobi Desert to Old Dragon's Head on the Yellow Sea. Far more than a romantic look at the Great Wall of yesteryear, this stunning, artfully crafted volume also contains concise histories of the sites that Lindesay's images revisit. Colorful literary impressions composed by earlier visitors, juxtaposed with contemporary eyewitness accounts of change traced along the Wall, afford a sense of history unfolding and time inexorably creeping along the contours of this enduring monument to human ingenuity.

During his 20-year-long passion for the Great Wall, author-photographer William Lindesay has spent 1,200 days investigating the structure. In 1987 he made a 2,470-km solo journey on foot along the Wall from Jiayuguan to Shanhaiguan, Since settling in China in 1990, he has established International Friends of the Great Wall, an NGO which cooperates on preservation projects with the Beijing Administration of Cultural Heritage and the World Monuments Fund.He is the author of several books, including Alone on the Great Wall and Images of Asia: The Great Wall. He was awarded the Friendship Medal from the Central Government of China in 1998 and the rank of Officer, Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Queen Elizabeth II in 2006